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...
The 16 Best Network Monitoring Tools
As market and monitoring software evolve, deciding which of all network monitoring tools implement on your business Would you like to know which is the best network monitoring tool for you or your company? Below we’ll be making a comparison...
How to report a bug properly
The first thing to keep in mind when reporting a bug is make sure your software is updated with the last version available, because some times, what you think is a new bug it's really a problem solved long time ago. Programmers are weird, we all...
Cloud Monitoring: What you need to know
Migrating their services to the cloud has brought great changes to companies and their IT infrastructure operations, and at a pace which has left decision-makers without time to define a clear post-migration strategy. Meanwhile, SLAs still have...
NetFlow probe using Raspberry
NetFlow is a web protocol designed and created by Cisco to collect metrics on IP traffic and currently constitutes an industry standard in the world of network monitoring. It enables monitoring and analysis of any traffic generated by a specific...
Ticketing Integration: Pandora FMS & Integria IMS
Contemporary business needs IT and communication technologies if anything is to happen. For modern businesses, IT and communication technologies are essential; without them, almost nothing could happen. Reliable business machines, smooth-running...
KPIs in Logistics
Processes related with logistic enterprises are known to be some of the most difficult to monitor due to the number of elements that must be watched, their geographic movements and the different statuses or stages the different elements go...
IoT Monitoring and the Cyber Monday Blues
Last year, before IoT monitoring became a thing, experts were worrying about zombie computers. While they worried about powerful desktop PCs, a fifth column of helpful little home devices has crept under the radar and connected to the world wide...
PANDORA FMS review by RedesZone
Back in February of this year we reached out to Ruben Velasco, editor at RedesZone, one of the most important Spanish-language sites dealing with networks, to give him a tour of Pandora FMS, our flagship product. For a while we'd been reading...
Is it worth installing a monitoring system: a cost analysis
For some companies it can be difficult to put a monetary value on a monitoring service, especially if that company has never experienced a serious network or system failure. In the balance between cold, hard cash and a bunch of...
Alternatives to HP Open View
HP OpenView is a very extensive suite of software products (more than 50 core products) that attempts to cover most IT department management issues. Openview is not a software, but a huge suite of different tools aimed at managing system...
13 Reasons why Pandora FMS Enterprise is the Best Bet for your Company
We believe we have one of the most powerful open source monitoring software on the market. For this reason, there are more and more users are installing and using our free, open source version. Here we will show you the main differences between...
Cacti vs Nagios vs Pandora FMS, in depth
Cacti, Nagios and Pandora FMS are three monitoring applications with three different approaches: Cacti is focused on graphics, Nagios on status and Pandora FMS covers both, among other functions. If you are familiar with RRDTool or MRTG, Cacti...
Discover the best alternatives to Nagios. Meet your monitoring needs
It’s been some time since we’ve been wondering, why is Nagios deserving of the self-proclaimed title of being the “Industry standard” when it comes to monitoring. We’ve reiterated this question to ourselves more ever since they seem to be kind...
Zenoss vs Nagios vs Pandora FMS
In this article we’re going to establish a comparison that we hope can aid our readers in making the correct decision. Nowadays, the most common comparison is between Nagios and Zabbix (which we recommend you read before diving deeper into this...
Zabbix vs Nagios vs Pandora FMS: an in-depth comparison
When it comes to choosing the ideal monitoring tool for any installation, one may ponder upon many doubts. Nagios was for years a benchmark among network, system and application monitoring systems for many companies; Zabbix has been taking away...
SourceForge and the relevance of staying Open Source
For those who don't know, Pandora FMS has been named product of the month for June on SourceFroge. Now, this may seem relevant because of the heavyweight that SourceForge is in itself for the Open Source community online, but this really goes a...
#teamviewerDown: Safe alternatives for remote desktop management
Around March we already had a warning in the form of a newsbreak that someone was infecting devices managed with TeamViewer with ransomware. Now June has just started and we get news of another, more disturbing, incident that is also affecting...
Nginx monitoring with Pandora FMS: getting the most out of your web server
Nginx has become one of the most used web servers as of now. As a matter of fact, it's stealing a big chunk of the market pie from the very famous Apache. According to certain sources, NGINX is used as a web server by more than 140 million...
IT Metrics, find out the main metrics that really matter
IT Metrics, know the main metrics that really matter. What metrics should I monitor to know the status of my infrastructures? In Pandora FMS you will know.
AWS Monitoring: Pandora FMS arrives on Amazon Web Services
Pandora FMS is now available as an Amazon AMI (installed on CentOS Linux) in a way that’s completely compatible and optimized to work on your Amazon Web Services virtual enviroments. Since Amazon Web Services is a worldwide reference when it...