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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Grafana

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGrafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.

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    Pandora FMS

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Pandora FMS is a flexible monitoring solution. It is presented as ideal for medium and big-sized environments with at least 100 devices. Users can monitor any device, infrastructure, application, IT as well as business processes and services. It allows business users to obtain information from their concerns in real time, visualizing the data in a direct way. The solution boasts users among companies and organizations in more than 40 countries around the world, who according to the…

    $2,990

    100 nodes

    Pricing
    GrafanaPandora FMS
    Editions & Modules
    Grafana Cloud - Pro
    $8
    per month up to 1 active user
    Grafana Cloud - Free
    Free
    10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
    Grafana Cloud - Advanced
    Volume Discounts
    custom data usage custom active users
    Grafana - Enterprise Stack
    Custom Pricing
    NMS Edition
    $2,990
    100 nodes
    Enterprise Edition
    $4,250
    100 nodes
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GrafanaPandora FMS
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional Details—Licensed for individual nodes (agents), starting from 100 nodes.
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    Community Pulse
    GrafanaPandora FMS
    Considered Both Products
    Grafana Labs
    No answer on this topic
    Pandora FMS LLC
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    GrafanaPandora FMS
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Grafana and Pandora FMS
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Pandora FMS
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Grafana and Pandora FMS
    Feature
    Grafana
    6.8
    4 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Pandora FMS
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Grafana and Pandora FMS
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Pandora FMS
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Grafana and Pandora FMS
    Feature
    Grafana
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Pandora FMS
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Grafana and Pandora FMS
    Feature
    Grafana
    -
    Ratings
    Pandora FMS
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
    Looker Studio
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Auvik
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    PingPlotter
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kibana
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Nmap
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GrafanaPandora FMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GrafanaPandora FMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Grafana Labs
    Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
    Incentivized
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    Pandora FMS LLC
    I believe Pandora FMS is a solution that adapts to any type of scenario; it's useful for small businesses as well as large organizations. It more than meets the need to have a comprehensive monitoring system capable of sending alerts instantly and consulting historical data, logs, and trends. Additionally, for small businesses, the free version will be more than sufficient in most cases. And for those who do not want to deploy the service on-premise, there is an option for MaaS (Monitoring as a Service).
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Grafana Labs
    • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
    • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
    • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
    • Microservices monitoring
    • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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    Pandora FMS LLC
    • All-in-one software
    • Flexible and easy configuration
    • Multi-platform
    • Design in PERL, CCS and HTML5
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    Cons
    Grafana Labs
    • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
    • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
    • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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    Pandora FMS LLC
    • The interface is not intuitive due to the number of options it has and its organization.
    • It has a free version with limitations, and another paid version. The commercial one has a quite high cost.
    • It has a certain learning curve.
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    Usability
    Grafana Labs
    It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
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    Pandora FMS LLC
    The solution is very complete, and even includes extras such as IPAM.
    Deployment can be a bit unintuitive at first, but once you become familiar with the solution and thanks to its automatic deployment options it ends up being easier than it seemed. The power and options of the solution are its greatest virtue.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Pandora FMS LLC
    The support team answers very quickly. They are always willing to find a solution to any need that is required by us or one of our clients.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Grafana Labs
    Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
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    Pandora FMS LLC
    Before using Pandora FMS, tests were carried out with all these tools:
    • Nagios
    • Zabbix
    • System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    • IBM Tivoli
    • PRTG
    • SolarWinds
    Pandora FMS allows simple customization by making adjustments to text files, developing agent add-ons without the need to be a programmer, there is no scenario where we could not take data and save it in PandoraFMS, IoT, industrial products, and everything that any client needs to monitor.
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    Return on Investment
    Grafana Labs
    • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
    • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
    • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
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    Pandora FMS LLC
    • Substantial improvement in monitoring service. Detecting alerts on time always results in economic savings.
    • Improvement in the periodic report associated with the capacity plan. The tool is indispensable in decision-making.
    • Centralization and tool savings. Pandora FMS's versatility allows centralizing several functions into a single tool.
    Incentivized
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