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Pandora FMS vs MRTG: catalog facts
Pandora FMS	MRTG
Freemium An open-source edition is available; commercial on-premise and SaaS licences are sold…	Free Free software under the GNU GPL; sponsorship is optional.
Web, Self-hosted	Windows, Linux, Self-hosted
Covers servers, networks, applications, logs and user experience Dashboards, reports and alerts built in	Simple per-interface traffic graphs over SNMP Can graph almost any numeric data source
Aimed at organisations, so setup is more involved than a desktop monitor Many features and add-ons belong to the commercial editions	Dated web output compared with modern dashboards Setup is done through configuration files and Perl
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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