Pandora FMS vs. OpsView
Advanced monitoring, scalability and centralized management
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Which solution is best suited to your company?
Pandora FMS vs OpsView: Two approaches, one clear decision.
Pandora FMS
Monitoring and observability platform with a unified approach, allowing to manage from small infrastructures to environments with hundreds of thousands of devices.
OpsView
Monitoring solution focused on medium-sized infrastructures, with modular capabilities and oriented to basic monitoring of servers and applications.
Main strengths
Pandora FMS
- High scalability without the need for multiple servers.
- Centralized management with its Command Center.
- Advanced automation for deployments and maintenance.
- More than 500 integrations with third-party systems and applications.
- Flexible model: On-premise, SaaS or hybrid.
OpsView
- Compatible with multiple platforms.
- Modular approach for specific needs.
- Licensing licensing model subscription-based licensing model.
Technology and functionalities
Pandora FMS
- Own development since 2005, without dependencies on third parties.
- Advanced network functions: NCM (collection and backup of network configurations), change detection Netflow and trap monitoring, network and topology detection.
- Advanced monitoring of servers and applications: Native probes for Windows, Linux, Unix and Android, with low-level data collection without affecting operating system performance.
- WEB User Experience (WUX): Execution of complex transactions with measurement of each stage, screen capture and webscraping.
- Root Cause Analysis: Integrated in the service topology views.
- Federated databases: Long-term storage with real-time access.
- Integrated event console: Correlation of events throughout the architecture.
- Support for external logs and events: Agentless log collection (syslog).
- Advanced SLA: Customizable reports in multitenant mode.
- MQTT collector for IoT.
- Integrated SIEM.
OpsView
- Nagios fork, without own development.
- Functionalities limited to infrastructure and server monitoring.
Detailed comparison
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| Scalability and Centralized Management | Supports thousands of devices without compromising performance. Global infrastructure expertise. | Recommended for 300 hosts per server, which increases complexity and operational costs. |
| Ease of Use and Operational Complexity | Intuitive interface, fast configuration, simplified administration. Advanced automation with probe installation, automatic provisioning, agentless monitoring and integrated remote monitoring (RMM). | More complex configuration and higher learning curve. No advanced automation or integrated remote access. |
| Automation and Operational Efficiency | Automated probe installation, profile-based provisioning, automated RMM process management. | No advanced automation processes or integrated remote management. |
| Support and Community | Comprehensive technical support with perpetual license, 500+ plugins, e-learning training resources. | Limited, subscription-based support, less active community. |
| Compatibility and Integrations | More than 500 integrations, compatible with Windows, Linux, Unix and hybrid environments. | Fewer integrations and less compatibility in mixed environments. |
| Performance and Reliability | Real-time monitoring with instant alerts. | Functional monitoring and alerts, but less efficient in large-scale environments. |
| Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) | 54% reduction in response times to failures, 17% less downtime losses, ROI of 3.2x in the first half of the year. | Hidden costs due to lower scalability and automation. |
Comparative ratings
(G2 – March 2025)
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Pandora FMS outperforms Opsview in scalability, automation, integration and ROI.
While Opsview may be suitable for small infrastructures, its lack of automation and scalability limitations make it less viable for companies with advanced needs.
