Monitoring
What is Grafana?
Grafana is an open source platform for real-time data display and monitoring. One of its functions is the creation of interactive and customizable dashboards that make metric analysis from several sources, such as databases, monitoring systems and cloud platforms....
GLPI: IT service management and its integration with Pandora FMS
GLPI is a free IT Service Management (ITSM) solution that allows you to manage assets, incidents and requests within an organization. It works as an incident tracking and service desk system, optimizing technical support and technological...
How KPIs Help Us Monitor and Optimize Business Performance
Any IT strategist must keep in mind the business goal, so that their technology initiatives are aimed at delivering, rather than services and infrastructure, the added value of reliability and optimal...
Our “Wrapped-Up” 2024: Pandora FMS advances and accomplishments that marked the year
If Spotify can do its annual wrap-up, so can we! It is true that you will not discover your musical evolution this 2024, but you will be able to check all the advantages that one more year are added to the Pandora FMS portfolio and thereby...
SMART goals: What they are and how to apply them in IT projects
Content: What are SMART goals and why are they important in IT? Breakdown of SMART Goals into IT Projects Practical Examples of SMART Goals in IT Benefits of SMART Goals Disadvantages or, Rather, Considerations about SMART Goals And there are...
How to Optimize MPLS Network Monitoring to Improve Performance and SLAs
Content: Introduction to MPLS and its Relevance in Business Networks Advantages of MPLS for IT Infrastructures MPLS vs. emerging technologies such as SD-WAN How Pandora FMS monitors MPLS networks Use cases of MPLS featuring Pandora FMS...
Subnets. What is a subnet? How does it work?
Subnetting is the process of dividing a network into several smaller, independent subnets. Each subnet is a portion of the core network that follows a specific logic. We know the definition of the use of subnets in local networks that we could...
MELT: Understanding Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces for Effective Observability
The infrastructure must be “invisible” to the user, but visible to IT strategists to ensure the performance and service levels required by the business, where observability (as part of SRE or site reliability engineering) is essential to...
Cisco Meraki Monitoring with Pandora FMS
In a business world increasingly oriented towards efficiency and mobility, network management becomes a critical factor for success. Cisco Meraki stands as an undisputed leader thanks to its ability to offer a fully cloud-based technology,...
Distributed Systems Monitoring: the Four Golden Signals
Learn how the Four Golden Signals can improve distributed system monitoring. Learn about latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, and how these essential metrics optimize the reliability and performance of your services.
What are SLA, SLO, and SLI?
Learn the differences between SLA, SLO and SLI and how to implement these metrics to improve the quality of service offered by your company. Challenges, best practices and real-world examples.
Why business continuity belongs in the cloud?
Resilience in today's liquid business environment demands flexibility. The term "observability" replaces monitoring, reflecting the need to adapt and be agile in the face of challenges. The key is to dissolve operations into the cloud,...
How to update your PC BIOS
Discover our full guide on how to update your PC BIOS, how to access it and what precautions you should take.
XZ Vulnerability
You drink tap water every day, right? Do you know who invented the filtering mechanism that makes water pure and clean?… Well, do you actually care? Do you know that this mechanism is exactly the same in all the taps of all the houses of any...
What is alert fatigue and its effect on IT monitoring?
Talking about too many cybersecurity alerts is not talking about the story of Peter and the Wolf and how people end up ignoring false warnings, but about its great impact on security strategies and, above all, on the stress it causes to IT...
NoSQL Databases: The ultimate Guide
Today, many companies generate and store huge amounts of data. To give you an idea, decades ago, the size of the Internet was measured in Terabytes (TB) and now it is measured in Zettabytes (ZB). Relational databases were designed to meet the...
System Hardening: Why the Need to Strengthen System Cybersecurity
Today, digital trust is required inside and outside the organization, so tools must be implemented, with cybersecurity methods and best practices in each layer of your systems and their infrastructure: applications, operating systems, users,...
How to reduce CPU usage
From the computer, we increasingly perform different tasks simultaneously (listening to music while writing a report, receiving files by email and downloading videos), which involve executing commands, and sending and receiving data. Over time,...
Collectd Pandora FMS: Maximizing Monitoring Efficiency
Collectd is a daemon (i.e. running in the background on computers and devices) that periodically collects metrics from different sources such as operating systems, applications, log files, and external devices, providing mechanisms to store...
NOSQL vs SQL. Key differences and when to choose each
Until recently, the default model for application development was SQL. However, in recent years NoSQL has become a popular alternative. The wide variety of data that is stored today and the workload that servers must support force developers to...
Interview | Pandora FMS is a flexible and scalable monitoring system, ready to work in large IT infrastructures.
Interview with Alexander Twaradze, Pandora FMS representative in CIS countries. See original here. Companies’ modern IT infrastructure consists of multiple systems and services. These could be servers, network equipment, software, communication...