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...
What are Some of the Perks Offered by Pandora FMS Network Mapper?
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...
Beyond software agents: get to know Ansible
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....
Pandora FMS SNMP trap monitoring
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...
What Makes Application Performance Monitoring (APM) So Important?
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...
Kubernetes and Helm: monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
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...
How to Select the Best Network Monitoring Tool for Your Needs
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,...
Pandora FMS: Check Mk alternative
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...
What Can Pandora FMS Offer as a Server Monitoring Tool?
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....
Network operating system: operation, history and monitoring
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 could check...
Learn the different cloud service types: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
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 forgotten...
HR in a software development team
Interview with Sara Martín, HR at Pandora FMS, a software company "Human Resources", what are "Human Resources"? Vegetal charcoal? A set of goods or means of subsistence? The ability to touch your nose with your tongue or move your ears on...
Simple trap monitoring thanks to Pandora FMS SNMP alerts
SNMP alerts: what they are and why you should configure them The SNMP world is becoming more and more important within the monitoring environment, as companies need to find software that has specialized tools for trap monitoring. If you are not...
What should a CIO or CTO know about IoT?
CIOs, CTOs and executives. What you need to know about IoT If you occupy positions of certain responsibility (such as CIO or CTO) and you do not know what is necessary about IoT, you run the risk of being out of the game. So here in this article...
Alternative to Icinga: Pandora FMS open source
Pandora FMS como una alternativa a Icinga 1.x, ambos escritos en código abierto Examina. Busca. Navega. Icinga, en idioma zulú. El origen de los nombres de gran cantidad de software son un tanto extraños (o desconocidos), y eso es material para...
What is a smart business? Is yours?
Smart business. What is it? Is yours? Defining what a smart business is can be as difficult as defining what a smart person is. For decades, we have known that there are different types of intelligence that can help us in different aspects of...
Our developers tell us: What is a “developer”?
What is a "developer"? What do they mean for a company? "Developer", "DE-VE-LO-PEEEERRR"... It sounds pretty good. It’s easy to make your parents buy it when you explain them they are going to pay for your degree and they will be able to boast...
The future of e-commerce
The future of e-commerce: 5 ways to grow E-commerce is skyrocketing, there is no doubt whatsoever. With unstoppable annual growth and close to 2,000 million users worldwide, e-commerce has already been able to surpass traditional commerce in...
Introduction to security monitoring
Security monitoring as prevention and tool in computer security Security Information Monitoring or Security Event Monitoring is part of Security Information Management. Yes, I acknowledge they are flashy names and that even experts have their...
Has your company reached digital maturity?
Digital maturity; find out what it is and if your company reached it Do you know what digital maturity is? Do you understand how achieving it can affect your company? Do you know how to detect if you already reached it? Knowing what digital...
Discovery Net Scan: the best network discovery software
The network discovery software that turned Pandora FMS upside down Previously, in Pandora FMS blog, we learnt a little about the great revolution that the Discovery feature brought to Pandora FMS. This tool reduces the complexity of certain...