The good people at Pandora FMS have put together an interesting compilation of all the best network monitoring tools.
I'd like to take this opportunity to give my own opinion on the article and my personal experience with the tools mentioned. Quick FYI; the present analysis focuses on open source monitoring tools. I mention this, because licensed software, like Pandora FMS's Enterprise version, among others, feature many other tools and extra functionalities we could speak about. If what you'
Nowadays it’s not uncommon for companies to use Nagios as their main monitoring tool for networks, systems and applications. But it’s worth mentioning that Nagios is no longer the only one to meet those features, and it’s not rare to see people giving preference to other tools such as Zabbix or Pandora FMS. And this is because, for a few years now,there are a whole bunch of monitoring tools available on the market. Although most share the same features and offer most of the same solutions, not a
