There is quite a wide range of solutions offered by monitoring as a service to any company, from performing any analysis to detect the root cause of the issue to determining the path of the failure.

Here goes…

Our opinion on monitoring as a service

One of the most important and obvious benefits it brings to the table is that it solves training problems of workers involved or just solves the shortage of talent of these workers right away. 

It may sound a bit harsh… but it is what it is. 

The increase in the amount of information available in companies, and the obligation to be able to manage this IT structure well means that workers must constantly be better qualified.

In addition, the increasing importance of IT means that infrastructure managers have a certain amount of work overload. 

Something that with a monitoring system does not happen! 

Rather the other way around, monitoring as a service establishes a theoretical bridge between technology and business, drawing a scheme where you can easily detect where the source of the problem is, saving time and actions to the operating team.

Monitoring reduces the importance of the traditional involvement of people from different areas of the organization and the work overload that managers in this process may have. 

To sum up, monitoring systems control all data and allow access to information from the same platform, avoiding that those in charge of this area have to stay aware of several fronts without fully concentrating on a single one. 

Also inactivity cost is reduced!

Let’s get to the point!

“You must take into account that the transformation of a given company implies that there is more software. 

And, therefore, more business areas that depend on technology. A series of changes that imply the need to hire more competent profiles. 

Everything with the aim for all pieces to fit perfectly, both the computer and its software as well as the network and the technician who handles it “. 

Explains Sancho Lerena, CEO of Pandora FMS, as you surelyl know, an international reference in monitoring.

An example of this need is that the growth of hybrid infrastructures is 25% per year according to IDC data. 

For that reason, many companies are taking their chances on taking out their IT monitoring infrastructure to save money and especially time.

This process of getting the entire IT organization under the umbrella of the same system also helps the infrastructure manager, as they have higher capacity to manage its records. 

On the one hand, it collects all the data despite the fact that it is a large volume. 

And, secondly, it concentrates access to all that information on a single centralized console.

In conclusion, we get over the lack of time for the worker to be aware of fundamental tasks such as security or data management. 

It also gets rid of the possible lack of capacity to adapt to the different operating systems that may exist in the same company. 

And, lastly, the workload involved in facing a constant data flow where any minimal error must be detected is minimized. 

Systems such as Splunk, Datadog or Pandora FMS itself help in the process.

Conclusions

Through monitoring, it is possible to use information in a reactive way, anticipating problems and alerts received; preventive, since analyses are obtained that help to be prepared for any worst-case scenario; and retrospective, since the emerged crises are also studied to find out the extent of their impact and know how to take measures properly in the future.

What is Pandora FMS Open Source?

Pandora FMS Open Source is not a freemium software, it is not bloatware nor shareware (*Wink for those born before the 80s). Pandora FMS is licensed under GPL 2.0 and the first line of code was written in 2004 by Sancho Lerena, the company’s current CEO.

At that time, free software was in full swing and MySQL was still an independent company, as was SUN Microsystems. Today there are thousands of users of the Open Source version that regularly download updates through the system that we designed for that specific purpose.

We do not know more about the subject (neither their names, nor their companies…) because, above all, we respect privacy.

We consider Pandora FMS to be a real free software. The project has been active in Sourceforge since 2004 and we have all the awards granted by this entity that leads Open Source. All the code is available on Github in real time, but we do believe that there is something more important and that is the documentation we have available in five languages (Spanish, English, French, Japanese and Russian), with a level of depth that allows you to get the most out of it without having to pay for certifications, training or consulting.

Printed, the manual has more than 1,000 pages (per language) and is maintained by our professional development team, Q&A, translators and professional documentalists. We also have a public forum where we solve questions, with more than 15,000 messages.

We believe that freedom consists in offering users options, not just giving them part of the pieces of a puzzle without instructions.

Pandora FMS Enterprise

However, Pandora FMS has a version based on a commercial license that extends some of the features present in Pandora FMS OpenSource version. This license incorporates additional source code that is not publicly available or free of charge.

These features are oriented to demanding professional environments that require some automation and more specific tools already created to use them in operation and with professional support so that if something fails they can ask and get a patch if necessary. It is exactly for these types of environments that we designed Pandora FMS Enterprise.

If you want to use Pandora FMS Community and have doubts about whether it will be enough for your organization: Don’t hesitate!, it is not a question of size, we have users of the Open version with thousands of agents and who have been using it for years.

Obviously the main benefit of the Enterprise version is that you will have someone to support you at all times. Whether it is some problem with an update or throughout the installation of a plugin. But there are many small differences that can be key to optimizing your day-to-day management.

Next we will describe some of the Enterprise features. If you want to try them yourself, you can test the waters of a 30-day trial version, but let us show it to you at an online meeting and you’ll save yourself the trouble of messing with the software. Your time is valuable and while our documentation is extensive, PFMS has plenty of features.

Services

Services are the way to show in a simple and visual way what things are like in your organization, classified into different entities that in turn are made up of other services and / or metrics.

That way you may perform an automatic root cause analysis and find out when a service is affected, where the source is and even have it displayed in the form of a tree:

Services complement the existing display options in Pandora FMS and allow system managers to define weight rules that have their systems’ redundancy to alert only in case of need, not when something irrelevant fails.

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Policies

The need arose from a client who managed many computers with different purposes and technologies. They found out that monitoring Windows 2000 computers was different from monitoring Windows 2003, and that of course the Redhat Linux had different needs from the Debian Linux. It also had differentiated database environments, such as DB2 or MySQL.

Base monitoring could be “compartmentalized” into different sets of checks that could be standardized, so that any Linux machine that had Oracle could be monitored the same. That way, we made sets of checks that could be easily deployed to machine groups.

Thanks to policies, it is possible to homogenize monitoring and to deploy standard monitoring by technologies.

Thus a system can have different policies applied (e.g. base operating system, database, application X, network performance, etc.) and for every time you modify the policy, it can get “synchronized” with those systems that are subscribed to said policy, in a totally automatic way.

Of course, exceptions can always be made to policies at individual level, and each system can have unlimited policies in addition to custom monitoring. Using policy monitoring can save system administrators a huge amount of time.

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Customization and OEM

If you need to sell your own monitoring product, with your own brand and full customization not only of its look, but also of its installers, command path, running services, ISO installation images, Windows agents, logos, manufacturer and product names, Pandora FMS Enterprise has different customizing levels.

The most basic, and included as standard in any Enterprise license, allows you to customize the appearance of the console so that it does not look like Pandora FMS but your own product, with your own brand.

If what you need is to go further, and generate a software with another name and that from the installation process to the name of the database everything is alien to Pandora FMS, then OEM customization is what you need. We can even generate update packages specific to your OEM (or teach you how to do it so you can fend for yourself).

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History DB

Pandora FMS Enterprise has a secondary storage system in an additional database. The system automatically transfers the data from more than N days to the history database and when it needs it to make reports or graphs, it uses both databases to gather information.

This allows you to have an almost unlimited data history (several years) without compromising the speed of access to day-to-day data.

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Delegated authentication in Active Directory

Whether you need your installation to rely on an Active Directory to authenticate users, or to automatically create them at login, assigning them specific profiles or filtering them through a blacklist, this feature is designed specifically for professional environments like yours.

It has advanced options such as delegating to a secondary server, excluding administrators, complementing it with double authentication through Google Auth and many other options.

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Remote control

Remotely control and access your systems, whether windows workstations, Linux or Windows servers, or Raspberry or similar embedded systems. Access the remote shell as if you were in front of it, the remote desktop, or copy files both ways. All this from the same Pandora FMS WEB console, fully integrated into your asset management.

In the Enterprise version you may have your own on-premise infrastructure of eHorus servers so that all communication among your systems can be managed and controlled, with total autonomy from third parties and with maximum security and confidentiality.

In the community version, however, you may use our Cloud servers, up to a maximum of five devices for free.

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Satellite Servers

Satellite servers allow headless remote monitoring of entire networks of equipment in a distributed way. Install Satellite servers in the networks of your clients, they will obtain metrics of all kinds of devices around them, exploring what they have around them automatically and sending the information to the central server where you may manage it as if they were normal agents.

Satellite servers are perfect for making deployments in remote sites, customer offices or inaccessible environments. They can be installed on Raspberry, or any type of container.

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User Experience (UX) Monitoring

Nothing like observing things pretending to be a real user, if possible from the same chair as the real user. This is what user monitoring consists of, replicating a transaction from beginning to end, step by step, calculating the time it takes in each step, and verifying that each step is completed correctly.

That way you will not only find out whether it fails, but you will also know where, and how long each step takes. You may even take a screenshot to know what the fault looked like. This can be done for web applications (even if they have Java, Flash, HTML5, etc.), and also for traditional desktop applications. It can be done centrally (WUX) or in a distributed way so that the probes perform the tests from different geographical locations.

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Remote agent deployment

We know that deploying agents and configuring them is one of the most burdensome points of deploying monitoring. That is why we created a tool that allows, providing credentials, to connect to Windows or Linux systems to copy the agent and carry out its unattended installation.

It allows you to customize the installation, by different networks, environments or groups of machines. From dozens to thousands of systems can be installed or upgraded from the agent deployment console.

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Omnishell

Omnishell is a Pandora FMS Enterprise feature that is used for orchestration (IT automation). It is a fully native tool integrated into the console that uses PFMS agents to execute command blocks on selected targets.

A use example would be to configure the auto-start of the HTTPD service on CentOS 7 systems massively. Another example could be to install a manual patch on those Windows machines that you select from a list. It can be one or several hundred machines.

The system is designed to be executed on hundreds of systems simultaneously and wait for the order to be executed, showing on the screen the progress, machine by machine:

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Auto Provisioning and automatic agent configuration

It implements an automatic mechanism by which it can apply policies and changes to newly provisioned agents, so that after deployment, monitoring configuration is automated, assigning it group(s), monitoring policies, alerts, etc.

This customization is done based on rules. For example, having a certain IP range, a specific brand or custom field, or a hostname with a certain pattern. In addition, after you make the configuration change, you may generate a custom action.

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Collections

Deploying advanced monitoring requires bringing scripts and small applications (ours, yours or from third parties) to the monitored systems, to be executed by the agent in the form of plugins.

Collections allow you to gather this set of files and send them them to agents in an integrated way in the policies. That way, using plugins is something simple and transparent for the final operation.

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Log collection

Pandora FMS can collect logs from any source that supports syslog or through software agents (Windows and Linux). Such logs can be plain text files, or Windows system events.

They will be collected by Pandora FMS monitoring agent and sent to the server along with the monitoring data. So if you already have agents installed, you may collect logs from those systems conveniently and quickly, and without additional software or licenses.

Unlike monitoring data that is stored in a conventional SQL database, logs are stored in a separate Elastic system. You will be able to store gigabytes worth of logs and keep them for a long time (you will only need more disk space). You may set up alerts or search through your data sources. It is the ideal complement to comprehensive monitoring, and fully integrated into the console.

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Inventory Alerts

PFMS inventory allows you to obtain data of many types: installed software packages, users with access to the equipment, installed patches, hardware devices, firmware and version of the base system, license or serial number, etc.

Alerts allow you to generate actions in case of finding or not finding certain data on a computer with inventory information (whitelist / blacklist).

For example, what if you know that there is a vulnerable version in your systems? Well, you could create an alert that notifies you if someone is using it. Or on the contrary, if you need an application installed on all your systems and someone does not install it, you may find out in real time.

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Metaconsole / Command Center

The Command Center is the jewel in the crown of Pandora FMS.

It serves the purpose of centrally controlling an unlimited number of independent Pandora FMS instances (each with its server, its console and its databases) so that you may manage dozens of thousands of agents from a single point, while these systems are in turn managed by independent instances.

This federated management system ensures uniformity and ease of management. It is a robust system where one system failing does not affect the rest of the systems, and where growth is fully horizontal and distributes loads automatically.

We have clients with more than 40,000 agents and more than one million metrics collected.

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High Availability (HA)

In critical environments and/or with lots of load, it is possible that it is necessary to distribute the load among several machines and make sure that if any Pandora FMS component fails, the system will stay online.

PFMS has been designed to be modular but it is also designed to work collaboratively with other components and to be able to take on the burden of those that failed. The most critical component is the database (MySQL/Percona) that can be configured in Active/Passive mode so that in case of failure, a read-only node is automatically activated and the system continues to operate without pause, and without data loss.

This system is integrated into Pandora FMS console.

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Discovery Cloud

Discovery Cloud allows, through a fully pre-installed and centralized system, to configure native connectors (through APIs) with the most widespread public cloud providers: Amazon, Azure and Google.

You will be able to get it hooked onto your instances and explore the resources available for monitoring: machines, disks, databases and other elements.

The advantage of this system is that you may get information about the services dynamically, without installing agents. In addition, if you later install agents, you may add both monitoring approaches. Through the credential container system you may even monitor different Amazon instances, for example.

In the case of Amazon, you will also be able to find out the cost of active services.

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Discovery Applications

As with cloud providers, Discovery allows out-of-the-box to monitor some extended technologies centrally and remotely: Oracle, SAP R3, DB2, SQL Server, and VmWare virtualization (through the vCenter API).

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Enterprise ACL’s

Along with OEM features, it allows you to customize not only the look, but the feature accessible by all types of users (including administrators). That way you may limit the functions of a PFMS instance, even making the menus disappear.

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Comparison table Open Source vs Enterprise

Features	Open source	Enterprise
Tech support	In community forums, by volunteers	Worldwide hourly coverage. 24×7 optional
Professional services
Professional certification		Several levels
Operating model	on-premise	on-premise SaaS (MaaS)
Remote monitoring SNMP, WMI and with plugins
Monitoring with agents
Reports, dashboards and visual consoles
Alerts system
Multi-user and multi-tenant
Netflow
Network Configuration Manager
IPAM	(764 version)
Mobile Console APPs
High Availability	(Manual)	(Integrated)
Distributed Servers (Satellite)
Policies
Services
AD Authentication
Historical DB
Remote control	Only SaaS	SaaS and On-premise
Transactional monitoring of user experience (UX)
IT Service Manager	Partial
Remote agent deployment
Omnishell
Agent autoconfiguration / autoprovisioning
Command center (Metaconsole)
Collections
HA
Correlated alerts
Inventory alerts
Log collection
Discovery Cloud
Discovery Applications
Enterprise ACL’s
OEM and Partial Customization	Partial

The public service of buses of Madrid, the EMT, was one of the protagonists of Global Mobility Call that took place the 14th and 16th of June in IFEMA. The company from Madrid exposed its future plans tracing the route to continue transforming the capital into a Smart City where sustainable mobility and independent vehicles acquire great relevance.

Nevertheless, executing this plan would be impossible without a technology characterized by generating data on a steady basis. 

That’s why the city has taken its chances on data control through monitoring. This is the secret for the success of the EMT, that already has established a monitoring system thanks to Pandora FMS.

Pandora FMS, the great secret for Madrid’s EMT success

The EMT counted on a system based on a central HOST, that is to say, a computer or a set of computers around where all the information circulated and to which others connected.

But, after a remarkable enterprise growth, this system became ineffective before an activity that seemed uncoverable, the reason why they were forced to change their IT infrastructure management.

The public transport company confronted a remarkable technological growth of buses and users, and they set the goal of having a trustworthy control over the whole system, both the hardware and the processes that take place.

And it was there where monitoring came up, that is to say, the reception and analysis of data and their management by means of a central console.

In other words, the EMT needed a system that canalized all the information to a single computer from which to access all the interconnected technology, and the agreement with the Spanish company Pandora FMS made such a solution available to them.

Through the alliance, the regional public giant managed to reduce costs and improve its service until becoming a reference in public transport for the smart cities of the future, as it has been shown in the Global Mobility Call.

“The EMT needed to remarkably improve the management of all the information. 

It must be taken into account that its fleet is made up of more than 2,000 buses and that tens of thousands of users use this type of transport daily. 

To satisfy this high demand they leaned on evolution to implement a monitoring system able to adapt to the systems the EMT already had in motion, but that could be able to coexist with future developments”, 

explains Sancho Lerena, CEO of Pandora FMS

This monitoring system allows, among other things, to improve the process of checking bus availability through applications, thanks to which the user can see how much is left before the bus arrives from their phones. 

It also makes it easy for maintainers to manage with real-time information on each machine, its performance, and its status.

By means of Pandora FMS technological solution, not only does it increase the control that exists over the fleet, but it also achieves better response to any incident apart from preventing possible breakdowns, which reduces the impact on the end user and maximizes the benefits.

“When this monitoring system is implemented in the EMT, a watchdog agent is also established that reduces workload. 

What is achieved with this mechanism is that there is no need to carry out periodic checkouts to see that the system is working correctly and that, in the event of an error, it can be alerted in time to act and prevent similar ones”, 

highlights the head of Pandora FMS.

EMT Madrid now has control of each bus, which by means of LAN networks constantly dump information to the central. 

A step that in just a few years will be left behind, since they intend to improve data management until knowing in real time the capacity in each bus or even establish some that are completely autonomous. 

A series of innovations that are framed within the goal of smart cities, where the use of technology for the efficient development of services is the fundamental pillar.

The power of real-time data

Investment in technological development has only just begun. 

In the coming years, the use of 5G will end up being established, which allows higher connectivity and higher speed in the use of this type of networks. 

In turn, this scenario will increase the ability of systems to obtain data in real time. And, therefore, service management itself may be more efficient by having the option of adjusting to the behavior of users with a correct monitoring system. 

Madrid, which has reaffirmed in the Global Mobility Call its image of smart city, is already working on creating a digital twin (a virtual recreation of the city) that allows us to find out the movement that takes place in the distribution of its logistic microhub. 

That way, as with the other services, circulation can be anticipated and improved and, therefore, more efficient and sustainable mobility is achieved. 

Let’s check out together the new features and improvements included in the newest Pandora FMS release: Pandora FMS 763.

What’s new in the latest Pandora FMS release, Pandora FMS 763

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

New service evaluation option

A new token has been added to be able to choose which services are recursively calculated and which ones are uniquely evaluated with a separate interval to improve the thread load of the service status calculation.

OS Quick Report

A new widget has been added to the dashboards, “OS Quick Report”.

Through this widget you may get a table that will perform counting by the different operating systems that you’re monitoring

Sunburst, new service representation

The possibility of a new service representation has been added.

This will be a centralized view where you may see the details of the tree node through a tooltip when hovering with the cursor.

 New Azure Storage plugin – Enterprise plugin

With this plugin you may monitor a storage account and retrieve data from it such as the number of transactions, capacity or latency used by Azure to process a successful request.

It will retrieve data both at the general account level and from blobs, tables, files, and queues.

Link to the library.

 New Azure SQL plugin – Enterprise plugin

With this plugin you can retrieve performance and connectivity data from any Azure SQL database. Such as the CPU used, failed or successful connections or firewall blocks.

Link to the library.

Nuevo plugin Gluster fs – Open

With this plugin you may get the statistics of each volume and the bricks of a gluster fs environment. Some of the data that you may see are the total disk, Ordblks or Smblks.

Link to the library.

You already know that in this house we love comparisons. Somehow you have to elucidate which is the best monitoring tool on the market, right?

Well, this time we bring you the final battle between three great ones.  Prometheus vs Nagios vs Pandora FMS. Nothing like that had ever been seen before in the ring!

Let the bell ring!

Prometheus vs Nagios vs Pandora FMS, the final battle

What is Prometheus?

Prometheus seeks to be a new generation within open source monitoring tools. 

A different approach with no legacies from the past.

*You know, for years, many monitoring tools have been related to Nagios by its architecture and philosophy or directly for being an total fork (CheckMk, Centreon, OpsView, Icinga, Naemon, Shinken, Vigilo NMS, NetXMS, OP5 and others).

Prometheus however, is true to the “Open” spirit: if you want to use it, you will have to put together several pieces.

Somehow, we can say that like Nagios, it is a kind of Ikea of monitoring. You’ll be able to do lots of things with it, but you’ll need to put the pieces together yourself and devote lots of time to it.

Prometheus is a data collection tool that works with time series data. 

Many companies that need to integrate a tool into their developments and operations choose Prometheus as their primary source of monitoring data because it easily adapts to most software architectures, quickly integrates with most modern technologies, and becomes a kind of data acquisition and management middleware standard.

It is usually integrated with Grafana to display data, as the Prometheus user interface is quite basic.

What is Nagios?

Nagios is a classic reference in IT monitoring. You can already see some previous comparisons of ours, with this tool.

What is Pandora FMS?

Pandora FMS is an all-in-one monitoring software used for both IT monitoring and integrating monitoring processes of all kinds, from IoT projects to business tracking projects.

Features

Prometheus and Nagios/Pandora FMS on the other hand offer many different features. 

The type of data Nagios works with is very closed and focuses on states, being able to collect numerical metrics. 

Prometheus in raw data. 

Pandora FMS manages both with flexibility, although Prometheus is undoubtedly the most flexible when it comes to managing open data.

Prometheus collects data from applications that send metrics to their API endpoints (or exporters). 

Nagios uses agents that are installed on servers and through SNMP checks. It has a large and heterogeneous plugin system to collect data from other sources. One of its great virtues is this ecosystem (Nagios Exchange).

Pandora FMS has a more centralized system for remote polling (SSH, WMI, SNMP, web transactions, etc.) and is much more convenient to manage by its unified web interface. 

It also allows, like Nagios, to collect logs and process Netflow data streams, which Morpheus does not even contemplate.

Reports and control boards

As we said before, the charts and dashboards provided by Prometheus do not meet the current needs of DevOps that are very focused on creating their own dashboards, charts with combined data, and generating screens that serve to show other people. 

Many Prometheus users use other visualization tools to display metrics collected by Prometheus, often Grafana.

Nagios comes with a set of dashboards that conform to the monitoring requirements of networks and infrastructure components. 

However, it lags far behind in this area. Although it has visual screens and other third-party plugins for reporting, it is perhaps one of its weakest points.

Pandora FMS, however, has excellent graphics, custom dashboards (dashboards) and visual screens (Visual Console) that allow you to customize the appearance of the collected data. 

On the other hand, its system of templates and reports is extremely powerful and flexible, especially regarding Top-N type reports, different SLAs and all kinds and examples of charts, lists and summary tables.

Nagios XI

Grafana + Prometheus

Pandora FMS

Management, configuration, operation, installation and update

Perhaps this is the big difference between Pandora FMS on the one hand and Prometheus and Nagios on the other. 

While in Pandora FMS 99% of the configuration is through a graphical interface, with Prometheus and Nagios you will have to deal with configuration files and constant reboots. 

The same happens when you want to update, it is a process that requires Linux knowledge and managing with the shell. 

In Pandora FMS, it is fully automatic. 

As for Pandora FMS initial installation, it can be done using a docker or an online installation with a single command. 

In Prometheus and Nagios the installation can be tedious although preconfigured images already exist with Docker. 

None of the three tools is click & play anyway. None is a toy that can be simplified since all three are powerful multipurpose and extremely versatile tools.

Community

Prometheus has been growing in recent years, and has more and more extensions. 

However, the leader in this category is Nagios, who remains the reference of the community and has the largest library of extensions.
Although Pandora FMS already has a large library of plugins (mostly Enterprise applications), it is behind that of Nagios.

What will you miss in Prometheus?

Particularly, reports, dashboards and a centralized configuration management system. 

An interface that allows observing and monitoring grouped information in services / hosts. 

Actually, in order to do something you will have to install Prometheus and a set of applications to integrate them together.

What will you miss in Nagios?

A centralized management interface. Wizards, customizable reports and above all, unified management of agent configuration.

What are the great disadvantages of Prometheus over Nagios or Pandora FMS?

Prometheus is designed to work with data. 

It has no statuses, no service groupings, and you will not have a view that respects a hierarchy of elements that you can associate with your organization (networks, system groups, hosts).

Prometheus is a data processing ecosystem, not a common IT monitoring system. 

Its power in data processing is far superior than that of Nagios, but the use of that data for day-to-day use makes it extremely complex to manage, as it requires many configuration files, many external commands distributed and everything must be maintained manually.

The graphical interface also does not help, as it is excessively simple and does not allow you to configure anything.

We can say that like Nagios, it is a kind of monitoring Ikea, and that Nagios is much more limited in terms of its data processing power, but much more specific when it comes to using that data for something useful and visible.

Conclusion

Comparing Prometheus with Nagios is not fair as they have different approaches, Nagios is much more prepared for traditional IT monitoring, in less time, with less complexity and with more understandable results, even though it is older technology and with a much more rigid architecture that becomes difficult to integrate with the requirements of today’s hybrid environments.

Nagios and Pandora FMS have more resemblance to each other than either of the other two. 

However, Pandora FMS integrates better than Nagios with external development processes, since like Prometheus, it also works with raw data as a source of information. 

Unlike Prometheus, Pandora FMS uses an SQL backend allowing easier integration. 

On the other hand, like Prometheus, Nagios has many “additional” interfaces that are ultimately needed to display maps, graphs, and other types of reporting. 

In Pandora FMS everything is “included” as standard: reports, dashboards, dashboards, graphics, etc.

Prometheus has two main advantages over Pandora FMS and Nagios: the fact that it is designed to be part of an integration and its ease of use by having far fewer features.

Its main disadvantage is its poor scalability and the fact that many of the features of Nagios and Pandora FMS just do not exist in Prometheus, especially in network monitoring or in reporting.

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