Alternatives to Pandora FMS
A monitoring platform for servers, networks, applications and logs, with an open-source edition. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Pandora FMS
A monitoring platform for servers, networks, applications and logs, with an open-source edition.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Pandora FMS.
Zabbix
Enterprise-scale open-source monitoring for networks and applications.
Zabbix is fully AGPL-3.0 without commercial editions, scaling to tens of thousands of devices with proxies and a large template library.
Checkmk
Hybrid open-source and commercial monitoring with agent-based and SNMP auto-discovery.
Checkmk offers agent-based and SNMP auto-discovery, with advanced features and scaling gated behind its paid commercial editions.
Centreon
French enterprise network and IT monitoring platform with business activity dashboards.
Centreon is self-hosted IT and network monitoring with business activity dashboards, split between free and paid enterprise editions.
PRTG Network Monitor
Sensor-based network monitoring, free for the first 100 sensors.
PRTG is closed source and runs on a Windows server, free for the first 100 sensors with per-sensor licensing beyond that.
ManageEngine OpManager
Zoho's network monitoring software for routers, switches and hybrid infrastructure.
ManageEngine OpManager is proprietary network monitoring covering fault, performance and configuration management, with paid tiers for larger networks.
NetXMS
Monitor network devices, servers and infrastructure through a central platform.
NetXMS is an open-source platform for monitoring network devices, servers and infrastructure, with enterprise editions on separate terms.
Icinga 2
Monitor infrastructure availability with a configurable checking and alerting system.
Icinga 2 is GPL-3.0 check-based monitoring with distributed setups and notifications, without built-in log monitoring or a commercial edition.
OpenNMS
Carrier-grade open-source network monitoring platform with event correlation.
OpenNMS is open-source network monitoring with event correlation and Grafana integration, suited to large networks, with paid tiers for enterprise support.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Nagios Core
Monitor hosts and services with a configurable alerting engine.
LibreNMS
Discover and monitor network equipment from a central server.
Observium
Autodiscovering network monitoring platform with a clean interface.
Graylog
Self-hosted enterprise log management platform with stream processing and alerts.
Tactical RMM
A self-hosted remote monitoring and management tool with agents for Windows, Linux and macOS.
Grafana
Dashboard and visualization front end for metrics, logs and traces.
