Monitoring
What is Grafana and what is it used for?
Contents: What Grafana is How Grafana works What Grafana is used for Grafana dashboards Grafana data sources Monitoring and alerting with Grafana Grafana’s observability ecosystem Grafana and Prometheus: how they differ Advantages of Grafana Limitations of Grafana...
SQL vs. NoSQL: Differences, Advantages, and When to Use Each Model
Content: SQL vs NoSQL: the main difference in a nutshell Comparison table: SQL vs NoSQL What SQL is What NoSQL is Main differences between SQL and NoSQL Advantages and limitations of SQL Advantages and limitations of NoSQL When to use SQL When...
What to consider before updating a critical monitoring platform
Contents: The problem: Becoming blind when we most need to see What makes a major monitoring upgrade different What changes in Pandora FMS 800 LTS and why it requires proper migration planning What determines risk: initial architecture,...
Windows Server Monitoring: Key Metrics, Alerts and Best Practices
Contents: What monitoring Windows Server means today Key metrics to monitor in Windows Server What issues good monitoring can detect Best practices for monitoring Windows Server Virtualized environments and critical workloads in Windows Server...
How to Simplify Monitoring Architecture in Complex Environments
Content: The problem: when the monitoring platform itself becomes difficult to operate What symptoms indicate that the monitoring architecture is starting to become a problem Why grouping similar tasks improves actual resource usage What changes...
Vulnerabilities and Patches: How to Close the Loop Between Detection and Response
Contents: Detecting vulnerabilities is only the beginning Detecting vulnerabilities is not the same as managing them properly Why inventory and context change the quality of response What Pandora FMS improves in vulnerabilities with 800 LTS...
How to reduce the time to first visibility of an infrastructure
Contents: The problem: discovering assets does not guarantee operational visibility What usually delays the first visibility of an infrastructure What a truly useful discovery system should offer today Why seeing scan progress changes the user...
What does an SIEM integrated into a monitoring platform offer?
Contents: The hidden cost of fragmentation: when context is lost The paradigm shift: a SIEM integrated in the same console What capabilities does Pandora SIEM reinforce in the 800 LTS Aquarius What kind of situations does an integrated SIEM help...
Monitoring or “Black Magic”? Why innovation has become noise
Contents: AI as a Smokescreen for Complexity The Elephant in the Room: Costs and Lock-in Pandora FMS: The Rebellion of Utility Against Dogma Our vision is built on three pillars that challenge the industry’s status quo The Return to Common Sense...
How to monitor after migrating from VMware to Hyper-V, Proxmox or hybrid environments
Contents: How to keep strong IT monitoring after leaving VMware Scenario 1: Migration from VMware to Hyper-V Scenario 2: Migration from VMware to Proxmox VE Scenario 3: Monitoring hybrid environments after migrating from VMware Practical hybrid...
What could you lose by sticking with VMware?
Content: The current landscape of VMware and virtualization in 2025 Why VMware prices have skyrocketed VMware's response to the price hikes The main risks of staying with VMware Real cases of problems due to VMware’s price increases Comparison...
Why Leave VMware in 2026? Alternatives, Comparison and Migration Guide
Contents: The shift in enterprise virtualization Why so many companies are migrating from VMware in 2025 Top VMware alternatives in 2025 How to choose the right alternative to VMware Virtualization and cloud: a strategic duo Comparison: VMware...
What Is a Syslog Server and How Does It Work?
Contents: What is exactly a Syslog server? How does the Syslog protocol work? How a Syslog message is structured Main functions of a Syslog server in IT management Everyday use cases: Where is a Syslog server used? Pandora MINI, a free and...
IT Event Console: Centralize Logs, Correlate Alerts, and Detect Incidents
When you’re just starting out, you might picture yourself managing your IT infrastructure like Tom Cruise in Minority Report—key information projected in front of you, predicting events before they happen, controlling everything at the speed of...
Install Pandora ITSM from Pandora FMS Console
Until now, deploying Pandora ITSM required a standalone installation, manual database configuration, and later integration with Pandora FMS. With the new NG 783 version, that entire process has been simplified: Pandora ITSM can now be installed...
What Is Session Replay and How It Improves User Experience in IT Environments
Anyone who works in technology quickly learns this truth: users will always interact with systems in the most unexpected and baffling ways… and when something goes wrong, they swear they "didn’t touch anything." There's a vast ocean between how...
Optimize Your Event Analysis: Reports, Dynamic Filters, and Log Parsing in Pandora FMS SIEM
The latest Pandora FMS version presents key improvements to the SIEM, module, designed to enhance security event detection and management. These new features are available starting with Feature Release 782, allowing for optimized log analysis,...
What Is an IP Calculator and How to Use It for Efficient Network Management
Discover what an IP calculator is and how it helps you plan subnets, IP ranges, and addresses within IT networks. Ideal for system administrators. Content: Why IP Calculators Are Essential in Modern Networks? What Is an IP Calculator? Key...
Enhance Security with SAML: Pandora FMS Now Supports Azure Entra ID
In modern enterprise environments, access management is key to ensuring security and regulatory compliance (ENS, ISO 27001, NIS2, etc.). That’s why Pandora FMS has added support for Azure Entra ID, enabling authentication through SAML (Security...
Windows Monitoring with Sysmon: Practical Guide and Configuration
One might think that, considering how effective some companies are at logging everything we do to serve us ads, they’d at least apply that to help us understand what’s happening on our systems and monitor their performance and security. But in...
What Is Snort, How It Works, and Its Integration with SIEM for Cybersecurity
You can't defend against what you can't see. That’s why the first essential requirement in cybersecurity is to know everything happening in your systems. To achieve this, we implement an IDS (Intrusion Detection System)—a solution that...