What Does Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Involve? Nowadays, regardless of what type of business you run, you probably rely on a number of applications to make it through the day. Applications are key components of many computer networks, meaning it’s important that they function …
The anecdotes of our employees against technology We love technology. It has provided us with everything we need to be on top of human evolution and dominate this world and perhaps, others soon. At the same time it has also provided us with the …
The Best Network Traffic Analysis Tools of 2020 and Some Key Questions Galaxy: Milky Way. Planet: Earth, Solar System. Date: Year of the Rat, number 4718 from Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor. Spaceship: Pandora FMS Enterprise. Voyager 2 spaceship reports that its older twin sister …
Developing a Dedicated Log Collection & Management Plan When it comes to your network and server processes, one of the key ways your IT team will collect data and insight is through event logging. Collecting the right event data will help inform both essential …
Technological trends in life after COVID-19 This 2020 we are living a time of change. In fact, it would not be that crazy to guess that this pandemic will be a turning point, especially due to the obvious fact that such a pandemic has …
Docker Compose and container orchestration We continue with our series of articles on containers. First, we started with creating our own images with Docker Build and saw how to run them with Docker run. But today we will learn what Docker Compose is and …
Big Data security key points Big data security is a term used for all collective measures taken to protect both data and analytical processes from theft, attacks or all other malicious activities. Just like other forms of cybersecurity, big data security is about attacks …
10 IT tips to follow during Covid 19 pandemic We would love to stop writing articles that have as main topic the Covid 19 pandemic that is devastating the planet during 2020. Unfortunately, it’s still here, being the talk of the town. But don’t …
Introduction to Nagios XI and Centreon Centreon is a solution for monitoring applications, systems and networks, based on Nagios source code. On 1st August, 2005 the company Merethis (now Centreon) was founded and began working on “their” Nagios version, calling it Oreon. In July …
AWS monitoring with Pandora FMS In previous articles we talked about the need to move forward to cloud technology, as well as about the incorporation of the monitoring of this technology, describing this need with Microsoft Azure tool. Now we are going to describe …
Why server performance monitoring is important and how to do it Servers are an essential part of the IT of many companies. A server down could cause significant damage: from service stopping and productivity decreasing to losing direct sales and image problems that cause …
Interview with Rafael Ameijeiras, Project Manager at Pandora FMS Stories in Pandora FMS are endless. Perhaps not in terms of length, but depth. And today we are going to get closer to the story of Rafael Ameijeiras, our Project Manager, who came from afar …
Virtual server monitoring: key points to keep in mind It is undeniable that today we really live in cloud… of virtual servers. It is so because the vast majority of services and applications “rely” on them: any survey shows, outright, that users use them …
Pandora FMS is one of the most popular options in system monitoring and now it is easier than ever to learn all the ins and outs of our software. We now offer a a 25% off in our own exclusive training and certification courses …
Enterprise monitoring software: what to think about before choosing Finding an enterprise monitoring software is not an easy task. On the one hand, there are multiple options on the market that offer solutions of all kinds. On the other hand, you know that the …
We interview Daniel Rodríguez, head of QA at Pandora FMS Today, in the intriguing adventures of the Pandora FMS blog, we are finally going to discover and reveal the secret behind the initials “QA”. For this investigation we will have the help of Daniel …
Windows Server Monitoring Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced, flexible and easy-to-configure monitoring tool tailored to business itself. It adapts to all needs both in servers, network computers, devices and whatever is necessary. In this article, we will focus on Windows Server monitoring, using …
The Key Benefits of Service Monitoring When it comes to delivering the very best services to your customers, consistency is essential! That’s why many businesses choose to implement a service monitoring tool that will enable them to get greater control over their services. As …
Mysteries in Pandora FMS: the letter written and sent from Sweden All kinds of stories happen in Pandora FMS. And perhaps one day we will be lucky enough that Christopher Nolan himself will take us to the big screen, thus completing almost impeccable filmographies. …
PANDORA FMS 749 RELEASE These release notes describe new features, improvements and fixed issues in Pandora FMS NG 749. They also provide information about upgrades and describe some workarounds for known issues. New features and improvements Integrated HA improvements After investigating improvements in Pandora …
Azure monitoring: advantages and metrics with Pandora FMS Technology is evolving exponentially, and with it the size of the data that needs to be saved increases and the great need to access them quickly, easily and, above all, from anywhere. Every day that goes …
What are Some Perks Offered by Pandora FMS Network Mapper? When it comes to mapping your network, having the right tools at your disposal can make things much easier, which is why Pandora FMS offers an extensive network mapper, so you can always keep …
Interview with Jimmy Olano, user of Pandora FMS community Not everyone can say they have a “community”. Maybe the president of the apartment building where you live, or even some megalomaniac Sims player, but few other people. We are aware of it and we …
Software Agents with Ansible: save time and work Software Agents are very small programs that we install in each operating system so that it returns metrics to our Pandora FMS Data Server… What does this have to do with Ansible? Let’s see. Software Agents …
8 Tips for Choosing the Best Monitoring Software In today’s fast-paced business world, an issue with your network or servers, can certainly create serious problems, which is why having a reliable monitoring software in place is essential. The team from Pandora FMS has been …
Pandora FMS SNMP trap monitoring As network technology evolves, the SNMP world evolves with it. They create new network hardware that contains more and more OIDs to be able to stay updated on the status of more details of the product. This entails the …
What Makes Application Performance Monitoring (APM) So Important? Recently, it seems like tech companies are coming out with new hardware, software and applications on a daily basis, making it a little hard to keep up with the most current development trends. This is especially …
Docker, Kubernetes and Helm to be monitored with Prometheus and Grafana Helm was born during the Pycon conference in 2013. Well, it wasn’t exactly Helm, it was Docker. It took Mr. Solomon Hykes a little over five minutes to completely change computing history. Ok, …
How to Select the Best Network Monitoring Tool When it comes to protecting your company’s important data and network, it doesn’t matter what size your firm is, keeping things safe and running smoothly should be a top priority. For this reason, many invest in …
Interview with Pandora FMS employees about the global pandemic To be honest, I believe that it will take a lot of time to forget this. I don’t know if the 2020 pandemic of Covid-19 will be remembered exactly as grandparents remembered their wars or …
Check out a great Check Mk alternative: Pandora FMS Checkmk was created and developed by German Mr. Mathias Kettner, and since 2007 there is an open source version. In this article, we will get to know Checkmk Open Source, which contains 90% of all …
What Can Pandora FMS Offer as a Server Monitoring Tool? When your server goes down, it can certainly throw a wrench into your daily processes, costing you money and even causing you to lose customers until it’s back up and running again. Thankfully, Pandora …
What is a release and how to launch a new one each month What is a release? As many of you know, one stormy autumn night Pandora FMS team climbed to the most abrupt and outstanding peak of the surrounding area and swore, above …
PANDORA FMS 748 RELEASE These release notes describe new features, improvements and fixed issues in Pandora FMS NG 748. They also provide information about upgrades and describe some workarounds for known issues. New features and improvements Smart Services Pandora FMS service creation has been …
How a network operating system works and how to monitor it In the early days of telephony, there were few people who had phone numbers in every town and city. There were just a few numbers to remember and if your brain failed, you …
What cloud service types are there? In previous and great articles in here, we already talked about what Cloud is and the types that exist floating above our heads. But today, for a change, we want to focus more on one of its totally …
