Monitoring
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 not only SMART goals...
PuTTY from a monitoring perspective
Content: What is PuTTY? Before GNU/Linux® The world of computers today EU-FOSSA 2 Human resources What does PuTTY do for us? PuTTY Features Tips to save time PuTTY and Pandora FMS What is PuTTY and some useful tips to use it easily PuTTY is a...
What is actually a hacker?
What is a hacker? More like Mr. Robot rather than Operation Swordfish If we lived in a fair and more appealing world, children would not want to be Cristiano Ronaldo or PewDiePie (popular Swedish youtuber that if you have a certain age, or...
What is, how to install WSL2 and why is it great news for the IT industry?
Before diving into what WSL2 is, how to install it, and how to use it - which we will - I would like to add some background information you might relate to if you were born in the 80s like me. From a very young age I have felt attracted to...
What is Packet Loss & How Can it Affect Your Network?
At Pandora FMS, we know that even the most minor of network issues can quickly throw a wrench in your company’s daily operations. One of the most common network issues many experience is known as packet loss. Here, our team of network monitoring...
Black Friday is here! Would you like your eCommerce to survive it? Monitor it!
eCommerce monitoring. Are you ready for Black Friday? What problems may your eCommerce face? If you are reading this article, we assume it is because you have an eCommerce, a digital business you have put all your effort in (and all your money)....
Pandora FMS port monitoring
All Pandora FMS tasks rely –or have to do- with port monitoring. The ancient Roman Empire used to call what is now the Mediterranean Sea as Mare Nostrum (Nostrum Mare), stating what is now the port city of Barcelona as the entry point to...
10 Reasons Network Monitor Software is a Must
10 Reasons Network Monitor Software is a Must Ever since the 1980s, network monitoring systems have been in place for companies that rely on computer networks to perform their daily operations. Since their implementation, they’ve undergone...
What Does Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Involve?
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...
Has technology ever failed you?
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...
Network traffic analysis tools
Best network traffic analysis tools 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 is...
Developing a Dedicated Log Collection & Management Plan
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...
What life after COVID-19 has in store for us in the world of technology
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, introduction to container orchestration with Pandora FMS
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...
Pandora FMS vs Centreon vs Nagios XI
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...
The importance Cloud monitoring: AWS
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...
Pandora FMS server performance monitoring
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...
Focusing on virtual server monitoring
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...
What does the acronym QA mean?
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...
Windows Server Monitoring with Pandora FMS
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...
The importance Cloud monitoring: Azure
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....