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October 2021

Micro data centers, that unstoppable David defeating Goliath again

We all remember a couple of biblical allegories here. That of the Good Samaritan, that of The Prodigal Son, that of an Aragonese with new Adidas and the trolleybus on line 8… But the one that interests us today is that of the most holy and bethlemite David, preceded by Saul and succeeded by Solomon, who, among his many achievements, managed to defeat the Philistine giant Goliath.

Receive charts of Pandora FMS in Telegram

In this video we will learn how to add graphics to the alerts that we receive in Telegram for Pandora alerting. In the first tutorial we saw how to configure to receive these alerts with text and now we will be able to add that they come accompanied by the graph of the module that triggers it. We also leave you the following links to our wiki where you can learn more about the steps that make up the alerts.

Uptime/SLA calculator: what is an SLA and how to calculate it?

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a document that details the expected level of service guaranteed by a vendor or product. This document generally sets out metrics such as uptime expectations and any payoffs if these levels are not met. For example, if a provider advertises an uptime of 99.9% and exceeds 43 minutes and 50 seconds of service downtime, technically the SLA has been breached and the customer may be entitled to some type of remuneration depending on the agreement.

Monitoring as a service, here we come!

On the way to perfecting its services, Pandora FMS launches one of the most advanced and complete solutions in its history as monitoring software: Monitoring as a Service (MaaS). As we all know by now, Pandora FMS is a software for network monitoring that, among many other possibilities, allows visually monitoring the status and performance of several parameters from different operating systems (servers, applications, hardware systems, firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers, routers…).

Because not only autumn has a place in October: Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Welcome back to the incredible and majestic Pandora FMS blog. In today’s post, we are going to deal with an event belonging to the month of October, that depressing month in which we become aware of fall, it is colder and someone keeps cutting short our daylight hours. If April is the month of flowers and November the month of the male mustache for testicular cancer, October is the Cybersecurity Awareness Month.