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- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Host online lectures with Panopta
Reviewed on 2019/04/06
Pros
Very user friendly. Comes with a mobile app which greatly helped me watch my university lecture videos on the go. Option to download video as well as you can put a restriction such that a user cannot download.
Cons
Sometimes the videos take a long time to buffer. The quality of video does not auto adjust with the internet speed quickly.
Response from Fortinet
Thank you for the review Vinayak, but just to clarify, were you intending to review our network monitoring solution, Panopta? Or perhaps soundalike company Panopto?
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Solid, reliable and configurable monitoring and alerting solution
Reviewed on 2016/12/15
We started using Panopta over a year ago after having continual problems with some of the other...
We started using Panopta over a year ago after having continual problems with some of the other better-known monitoring solutions; continual false-negative reports and convoluted interfaces were causing continual problems for us. Panopta's service has proven to be very reliable, allowing us to configure the points from which our servers are monitored which mean we're getting alerts from regions very close to our users, and we've been able to extend this past simple 'ping' type tests. Their alerting services are easily configurable and adaptable, meaning our staff receives alerts promptly when necessary. We have also had no issues with simple integrations via API to any services we've wanted so far. A couple of times we haven't been able to figure out issues on our own their support has proven to be very fast to respond and diligent with following up on any lingering concerns. Happy to recommend Panopta to anyone looking for a reliable, robust monitoring solution.
Pros
Ease of use; reliability; configurability; alerting systems; easily integrated with other systems
Cons
They don't have as many 'out of the box' integrations as some of the better-known solutions, however, it hasn't proven to be a big hurdle with a little work.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Solid performance, mostly
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
Overall we're happy - all outages seem to be notified. The issue we do have is false notifications,...
Overall we're happy - all outages seem to be notified. The issue we do have is false notifications, that tend to wake up engineers in the middle of the night for no reason.
Pros
Mostly accurate
Cons
False positives.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Basic Network Monitoring Platform for startups
Reviewed on 2020/09/24
not so satisfied but I think the amount of money we pay for Panopta is just fair to the benefits we...
not so satisfied but I think the amount of money we pay for Panopta is just fair to the benefits we receive
Pros
What I like about Panopta is it is very easy to setup. The other thing is that it has built-in SMS notification system which can be used when there are critical alerts.
Cons
Panopta lacks SNMP polling. It is limited to ICMP monitoring
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Panopta is a critical element of any hosting setup
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
I have run a boutique hosting business alongside my web-based app development business for 17 years...
I have run a boutique hosting business alongside my web-based app development business for 17 years now. It works out well to have one company develop the software and host it. Being a small shop, I use outside services extensively to put my service offering together, and Panopta is a big part of that. I have never had problems with Panopta, it's always there when I need it.
I could easily put together a system myself to monitor my websites. However, Panopta has a great feature that is difficult to replicate cheaply. Your website has a primary monitoring location - say "California". If the primary monitoring location finds your site down or unresponsive, it alerts other monitoring locations around the world. They all try to hit it then and only then determine if it's down. So if a connection on the internet is down but my site is up, Panopta won't bug me. I've never had a false alarm from Panopta.
I was an early customer from what I can tell (I remember the founder emailing me directly once when I asked a question) and will be with them for a long time. The service has matured nicely over the years and really serves an important role in my company.
Pros
It just works.
Cons
Sometimes difficult to setup, but the complexity is expected for the service provided.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Panopta is reliable
Reviewed on 2016/12/07
I switched from Pingdom after they made "improvements" that rendered a good product unusable....
I switched from Pingdom after they made "improvements" that rendered a good product unusable. Switching to Panopta was easy, and gave me some extra flexibility in composing checks across multiple protocols.
After two years I have not missed a single outage thanks to Panopta, the service is consistent and reliable.
My main complaint is that their configuration UI is somewhat clunky and slow. Multiple page reloads are often performed for simple updates, and this can make it very slow to make bulk changes. A rewrite using up-to-date single-page techniques would make the UI experience much more fluid.
Pros
Reliability. Flexible checks.
Cons
Config UI is slow and clunky.
Response from Fortinet
Hi Richard!
Good news! We are releasing our beta 2.0 UI the first week of January. Keep a look out and please send us your thoughts and suggestions as the updates progress.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great service
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
I was first attracted by their brilliant name and tag line. Looking into the service I was quite...
I was first attracted by their brilliant name and tag line. Looking into the service I was quite impressed at how it operated. We immediately signed up and use it to monitor a few handfuls of nodes. We have now used it for a few years and love it. Our only gripe, and it's more my personal expectations, but faster email response and a reseller or affiliate program :)
Pros
Absolutely perfect minutely monitoring.
Cons
Support doesn't reply as fast as cPanel. Possibly just my unrealistic 3-hour expectations though.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Panopta is a Life Saver!
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
Our servers went down before and after we signed up for Panopta's monitoring service. The difference...
Our servers went down before and after we signed up for Panopta's monitoring service. The difference is that we can act on it immediately now. It took literally 2 minutes to setup the service once we had signed up. The wizard did all the work. Now we get texts and emails within a minute of anything happening. This kind of peace of mind is priceless.
Pros
Easy to setup.
Can monitor just about anything we would need.
Cons
Have not experienced anything negative yet on Panopta. (Been using it for over 2 years)
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Just the right amount of monitoring
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
We use Panopta as our front-line monitoring system at Nutshell, a SaaS product. In particular, we...
We use Panopta as our front-line monitoring system at Nutshell, a SaaS product. In particular, we needed a tool that would notify the team via phone call, for late-night coverage. Panopta made this easy.
We struggled with the iPhone app at first, but they've launched a new version which works great for us. It's nice to get an iPhone notification as a heads-up before we escalate to phone/text.
The UI to attach notification schedules to services is a bit unwieldy, but they've made significant progress. We lean toward a simple configuration, ("Is the app up?"), and put members into several escalation groups (iPhone -> text -> phone). The effort, cost, and overhead of PagerDuty haven't proven necessary.
Panopta's actual core monitoring platform has been bulletproof for us: no false positives, immediate notifications. It helpfully covers things like SMTP, DNS, and SSL expiry, too.
We use other monitoring platforms, but Panopta is the source of truth, for both the operations team and the rest of the company!
Pros
Phone call alerting, bulletproof monitoring, straightforward monitoring of an HTTPS endpoint
Cons
The UI to add a new team member to an existing schedule is a bit kludgy
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Quick setup and relatively easy monitorying
Reviewed on 2018/12/12
Overall they have been great to work with
Overall they have been great to work with
Pros
Panopta’s support was very helpful in getting us up and running. So far it has been able to scale with our infrastrutures and is very user friendly when it comes to monitoring.
Cons
We've had some false positive alerts, but haven't had those in a while so we think it was a bug that they fixed or we didn't have it configured properly out the gate.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great System Monitoring Solution
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
Panopta has been wonderful for providing server monitoring for our applications. The ability to add...
Panopta has been wonderful for providing server monitoring for our applications. The ability to add custom dashboards to show key metrics and add alerts when those metrics are out of policy has been key to monitoring our physical infrastructure and has allowed us to focus on running our products vs running our systems. I would highly recommend to anyone looking to monitor public/private cloud and physical systems.
Pros
- Cheaper than competitors
- More features than competitors of similar price
- Very robust dashboard an alert system
Cons
- Dashboards can be a bit difficult to change
- Not all features are obvious and can take some getting used to
Response from Fortinet
Hi Jonathan,
We agree, the current dashboard has some faults. Keep an eye out for our Dashboard revamp coming in the beginning of January! Let us know what you think and send us some feedback so we can continue to make improvements.
- Industry: Broadcast Media
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Uptime Lifeline
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
It's hard enough to keep up with servers 24/7/365 let alone when I'm traveling. The website and app...
It's hard enough to keep up with servers 24/7/365 let alone when I'm traveling. The website and app make outages easy to manage when I'm on the go. The alerts come right to my phone. For the price this may be the best vendor I have. Scratch that, "IS"! The price is the same as when I signed up yet now I have a public status page and agent heartbeat to keep my business ticket. It's alive and well. Thanks Panopta!
Pros
Agent heartbeat has a very light footprint on the servers. The flexibility of outage alerts is easy to customize as well.
Cons
Once, in a while I'll get a false alarm. Although, it's typically due to a new monitoring IP that needs whitelisting. Not too much trouble at all.
Response from Fortinet
Hi Seth!
We could definitely do a better job of notifying you about new monitoring node IP addresses, I'll bring it up to our product team. In the meantime, you could subscribe to our mailing list or RSS feed for quick updates! You can find both here (https://www.panopta.com/monitoring-network/)
- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent Monitor Tools.
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
We have been using Panopta for a couple years now and find it extremely useful, we have a network...
We have been using Panopta for a couple years now and find it extremely useful, we have a network of sites that we need to monitor for uptime and we thoroughly depend on Panopta now to monitor their uptime, Panopta has alerted us instantly when the sites or servers are down and helped our team identify issues when a resource is down right away. I would recommend this to anyone is need for a monitoring resource.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
An app to record your teaching for class
Reviewed on 2021/07/07
The cloud Panopta provides to upload the recoded lectures is very useful for online teaching. Our...
The cloud Panopta provides to upload the recoded lectures is very useful for online teaching. Our school used Panopta and connected it to the school teaching website so students can listen to lectures from the school website using Panopta. Overall, it comes with many good features necessary for online teaching.
Pros
It is basically an app that you can use to upload your class explanation and use then recording as an online source. Panopta has this nice feature to cut and edit the videos very easily which is very important for many teachers who are not expert in editing videos.
Cons
The recording quality is not that good. I tried couple of time to record my lecture but I had to be very careful about any little noise since it was transformed to the voice. So having a very good quality microphone is very important. Often I had to use other platforms to record my lecture and upload it on Panopta to share with students.
- Industry: Computer Hardware
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Powerful Intuitive Website Monitoring - Just Lacks a Couple of Features
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
I love Panopta. It is my favorite platform for just monitoring websites. The outage simulator, easy...
I love Panopta. It is my favorite platform for just monitoring websites. The outage simulator, easy tree-style interface, and awesome support will always make it a great system to work with.
Just needs a few extra features such a RUM, APM, etc. There are other competitors that offer similar services for similar prices while also offering additional features as part of the over package.
But, competitor's support is lacking as well as ease of use.
Pros
- Nested Object Interface
- On-Call Schedule Built-In
- Calling for Free
- Large amount of monitor types
- Large amount of locations.
Cons
- No RUM
- No Docker
- No APM
Response from Fortinet
Hi Kevin! The good news is that most of what you suggested is on our roadmap; our Docker integration is coming soon! I'll shoot you a quick email with more details.
- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Works well
Reviewed on 2017/02/03
Works well. Would like a bit more included in the basic packages as I feel it is a bit limited for...
Works well. Would like a bit more included in the basic packages as I feel it is a bit limited for a small player and the larger packages gets quite expensive quick so it feels a bit prohibitive cost wise for a small player.
Pros
Works well
Cons
Limited amount of probes in the smaller packages
Response from Fortinet
Hi Erik!
Thanks for the review and the feedback. I'll send over an email so we can discuss a plan that's better suited for you!
Keep an eye out in your inbox
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great real time outage alerts
Reviewed on 2017/01/30
Panopta allows me to actively monitor in real time the health status of my application. It is easy...
Panopta allows me to actively monitor in real time the health status of my application. It is easy to set up and robust monitoring makes it ideal for me to monitor several key applications effectively.
Pros
Easy setup, real-time monitoring
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Excellent Software
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
This has been an excellent Monitoring Tool to supplement our Internal Monitoring Systems and gives...
This has been an excellent Monitoring Tool to supplement our Internal Monitoring Systems and gives us an Insight into our Network, from External Sources on the Internet throughout the day.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Good stable monitoring
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
Used to monitor all of our servers and web apps, allows us to monitor from multiple locations and...
Used to monitor all of our servers and web apps, allows us to monitor from multiple locations and emails and sends SMS quickly and efficiently.
The service has a lot more to offer than for what I need as I only require basic monitoring and disk/ram/CPU usage and a couple of tests to test a web page is up.
Pros
Cheap, fast and reliable and support are very helpful.
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Excellent Product
Reviewed on 2017/01/31
I've very happy for using your production. It's so great to see in detail what we need from outside...
I've very happy for using your production. It's so great to see in detail what we need from outside from the world.
Pros
time for investigate
monitor
alert
maintaince
security
mobile app
scheduler
multi service
Cons
Some services are still not on your production. However, I can handle by another method.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Panopta is simply the best
Reviewed on 2017/02/03
I have been using Panopta for several years at several different employers. Each time I introduce...
I have been using Panopta for several years at several different employers. Each time I introduce the solution to my employer, we move forward with keeping it as a long term external monitoring solution. Not only is the platform easy to use, reliable, and intuitive but the staff is EXTREMELY responsive. They have helped me on several occasions on configuring alerts, API keys, etc. Would recommend this as a solution for a business looking for reliable monitoring.
Pros
Easy configuration of notifications
Cons
Quite frankly, none.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Customer and own private DC monitoring.
Reviewed on 2016/12/07
Great value for money and product! I could gather from using the product. It is new, but the...
Great value for money and product! I could gather from using the product. It is new, but the support to help works on problems that came up was resolved. Efficient and helpful support staff. New features I requested was quickly included and I was informed when the new features came available so I could test.
Happy Reseller and Customer:)
Pros
The Value you get for your money.
Cons
the Onsite appliance cost is to high.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
It just works!
Reviewed on 2016/12/06
We use Panopta to monitor our internal monitoring system (yes, somebody needs to watch over...
We use Panopta to monitor our internal monitoring system (yes, somebody needs to watch over monitoring systems too) and also to have a general view of our network from outside, so far has been very solid, they are always improving and releasing new features.
It is powerful, easy to use and affordable
Pros
Powerful, you can monitor almost everything
Nice public status page
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Fully Featured.
Reviewed on 2016/12/15
We found Panopta after becoming frustrated with Pingdom's convoluted and ever-changing dashboard...
We found Panopta after becoming frustrated with Pingdom's convoluted and ever-changing dashboard experience. Panopta, on the other hand, has been great to use. The user interface is fairly modern, despite some quirks, and performance cannot be beaten. It has the enterprise features we need, such as custom alerting schedules and groups, and a comprehensive dashboard that shows exactly what's happening throughout our environment. Would highly recommend.
Pros
Fully featured and flexible. Useful for many sites/servers.
Cons
Lacking some reporting, the dashboard is a little buggy.
Response from Fortinet
Hi Tim,
Lucky for you, we're releasing our alpha dashboard in the beginning of January! Test it out and let us know what you think. RE: reporting, I'll reach out to you via email so we can discuss what improvements we can make.
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A feature full reliable monitoring service.
Reviewed on 2017/01/09
Panopta gives us the peace of mind we need to keep our network and servers online and available,...
Panopta gives us the peace of mind we need to keep our network and servers online and available, it quickly picks up faults and gives us a huge array of options and flexibility on the manner in which we are notified. Being able to schedule different types and layers of notification is especially helpful as we can start with simple emails and work our way up to phone calls.
It is a shame that it doesn't support telephone extensions for calling as it sometimes means that automated phone calls get lost or only partially recorded into voicemail but that was easily worked around by getting direct numbers without extensions where required. Also support for mobile is extremely poor, the mobile app works but the website itself is utterly unusable.
In terms of reliability, to my knowledge we've never had any problems, it always works and picks up faults. I am aware of only one or two occasions in years of using Panopta where there have been false positives.
All in all a good service that I personally would recommend over other monitoring companies.