Pandora FMS vs. Zabbix Comparison

Pandora FMS

Zabbix

Pandora FMS

Read 15 Pandora FMS reviews.

3,908 views|2,385 comparisons

Zabbix

Read 24 Zabbix reviews.

44,721 views|32,354 comparisons

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Anonymous User

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Researched Zabbix but chose Pandora FMS: Provided insight with respect to our IT services

This solution has improved our organization because we gain time by simplifying the root cause analysis. We can easily operate monitoring... Read more »

D6B8

District Technology at a educational organization

Being able to monitor almost any device in one location is extremely convenient

Before we didn't really have a centrally managed monitoring solution, so adding this product has been a blessing as we are able to actively monitor... Read more »

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Pros
"Thanks to this software and to the work of the support team, we have everything under control.""The most valuable feature is that it is an all-in-one monitoring system.""This product has allowed us to identify and correct certain issues that were affecting our solution.""You can configure several types of architecture for high availability or load balancing.""It provides us with proactive monitoring and is very easy to configure and maintain.""I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly.""This solution has screens that are easy to understand and provide a wealth of information.""The official forum is active enough to answer most of the high-end technical questions that you may have." More Pandora FMS Pros »	"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage.""The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches.""The implementation process is very straightforward.""The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring.""The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast""The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part.""Zabbix is both stable and scalable.""The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies." More Zabbix Pros »
Cons
"In the future, we may have double the number of devices, and we do not want to have any issues with performance in the data display.""Improvements are needed for server and network discovery, including service-based discovery.""An update to the Android app would be appreciated.""A nice feature in the next release would be an automation module to run workflow actions.""I think some improvements to the Android app would be good.""I find that this software is resource heavy, and demands a lot of processing capacity.""I would like to have a dashboard with all assets displayed, with a quick hover-over status.""Pandora FMS is an overall great monitoring solution, but it does not have a community that is as large as Zabbix or Nagios." More Pandora FMS Cons »	"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance.""The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have.""The server monitoring could be better.""If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice.""The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities.""For us, the initial setup was complex""The documentation could be improved.""Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement." More Zabbix Cons »

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Only one payment and it includes support, updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of plugins except for SAP and z/OS.""Pandora FMS is easy to implement and the pricing of licenses is competitive.""You get the license and it includes updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of modules.""My rule of thumb would be that if you need more than thirty agents, and you lack an automation tool such as Chef or Puppet, you will save a lot of time and money going to the Enterprise edition.""In terms of money, the Enterprise version is the cheapest that I have found after a market study.""The open-source version offers 100% functionality and the hardware requirements for a solution like this one are very modest.""Growing the solution or migrating to the Enterprise version is easy, and various plans are available.""The Open Source Community Edition is great to just explore the software, or use it on medium-sized infrastructures."

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"I was using the free, Community Edition.""We purchased Zabbix for a good price, including support""We are using the free, open-source version.""It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge.""This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable.""Zabbix is open-source so if one wishes to implement it in-house, they must have qualified professionals to set up and optimize databases, Linux/Unix OS, PHP, Apache, and depending on what is monitored, a full-stack network and systems administrator may be needed.""Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."

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Overview
Pandora FMS Enterprise is the perfect on-premise monitoring software for companies with at least 100 devices. Stop wasting your time and resources on complex and silo'd monitoring systems that are poorly integrated. It’s an all-in-one package offering modern and flexible IT monitoring, replacing the need for multiple, difficult-to-integrate, and more costly monitoring systems.	Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices. Zabbix is Open Source and comes at no cost.
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Sample Customers
Rakuten, Prosegur, Repsol, Teléfonica, Allianz, Ottawa Hospital, Hughes	Bodybuilding.com, LLC., ITtelligent Consulting Services,Eltele AS, Total Server Solutions, LLC., ChinaNetCloud
Top Industries
REVIEWERS Computer Software Company38% Healthcare Company25% Engineering Company13% Manufacturing Company13% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Engineering Company38% Comms Service Provider20% Computer Software Company11% Educational Organization5%	REVIEWERS Computer Software Company21% Comms Service Provider16% Financial Services Firm11% Retailer11% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company29% Comms Service Provider27% Media Company5% Government5%
Company Size
REVIEWERS Small Business90% Midsize Enterprise10% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business97% Midsize Enterprise1% Large Enterprise2%	REVIEWERS Small Business51% Midsize Enterprise20% Large Enterprise29% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business18% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise62%

Pandora FMS is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 15 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 24 reviews. Pandora FMS is rated 9.4, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pandora FMS writes "Single-point continuous supervision makes it efficient for detecting and solving problems". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Fabulous flexibility - supporting a vast variety of data sources including IoT protocols. Very stable and well supported. Scalable to many thousands of values per second". Pandora FMS is most compared with Nagios Core, Centreon, SolarWinds NPM, Icinga and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Splunk, Nagios Core, SolarWinds NPM and Datadog. See our Pandora FMS vs. Zabbix report.

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