Prometheus seeks to be a new generation within open source monitoring tools. A different approach with no legacies from the past. For years, many monitoring tools have been linked to Nagios for its architecture and philosophy or directly for being a complete fork (CheckMk, Centreon, OpsView, Icinga, Naemon, Shinken, Vigilo NMS, NetXMS, OP5 and others). Prometheus software, however, is true to the “Open” spirit: if you want to use it, you will have to put together several different parts.

In our blog we have posted a few articles about data centers. We like them. They have grown on us. It is a branch of technology that interests us as much as bitcoin interests brothers-in-law or neighborhood projects interest retirees. For that reason, today, in our blog, we will deal with data management as a service or DMaaS.

At the end of the last century I had the opportunity to help in a very ambitious computer project: the search for radio messages emitted by extraterrestrial civilizations… And what the hell does it have to do with Distributed Systems? Recently my colleagues wrote an interesting article on distributed network visibility, which I really liked and I came up with the idea of taking it to the next level.

There are different positions on whether observability and monitoring are two sides of the same coin. We will analyze and explain what the observability of a system is, what it has to do with monitoring and why it is important to understand the differences between the two.

Let’s check out together the features and improvements related to the new Pandora FMS release: Pandora FMS 760.

We love uploading this kind of post to our blog. Articles in which we boast about our work and where all the effort of our team throughout the year comes to light. Because yes, we are rewarded once more, Pandora FMS is proclaimed winner in several categories in the SourceForge Awards. No more and no less than four awards, including the Open Source Excellence 2022 award, possibly one of the most desired and disputed in the industry in this specific sector.

Three funny facts that you may not have known: 1) Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were colleagues. 2) Jean-Claude Van Damme was Chuck Norris’s security staff. 3) Pandora FMS has a plugin for WordPress. That’s right! Pandora FMS has a monitoring plugin for WordPress that has been totally renewed and prepared for you! Get to know Pandora FMS WP!

2022, the world is the technological paradise you always dreamed of. Space mining, smart cities, 3D printers to make your own Darth Vader mask… Just a little problem, society is based on digitization and communications and you have no idea about the visibility of distributed networks. Something of vital importance considering the rise of cybercrime. Well, don’t worry, we’ll help you.

In our daily life we can face different difficulties. From spilling coffee on our clean shirt just before leaving home to not finding an emoji that satisfies us to answer that someone we like. Stupid little things compared to how difficult it is sometimes to identify network problems for an external IT provider.

Whether you are a DIY ace or a master at roast beef, a decorated luthier or the best seamstress in the neighborhood, we all love to work with good tools, right? This includes, of course, good IT professionals. Because IT monitoring tools are fundamental when it comes to supervising a network infrastructure and applying the corresponding policies and security measures. Even so, not every monitoring tool is perfect, in fact some could even get to the point of harming us. Let’s take a look!