Panopta Overview
What is Panopta?
Panopta offers a full-service monitoring solution that covers all your devices and doesn’t compromise on security.
From monitoring your on-prem and cloud instances to providing detailed metrics on the performance of your applications, Panopta creates a true end-to-end view of your infrastructure. With rich, fully customizable dashboards and reports, Panopta makes it easy to track the health and performance of both individual deployments, as well as your environment as a whole.
Coupled with robust incident management and collaboration tools, teams are able to seamlessly identify, triage, and resolve incidents which helps to reduce MTTR and MTTD times. In addition, Panopta’s adjustable thresholds, countless integrations, and automated remediation tools help teams achieve proactive monitoring. Saving time and resources which can be better spent on high-value tasks.
Panopta’s OnSight vCollector and Agent are both lightweight and SaaS-delivered, meaning you won’t need any extra hardware to run them, nor will they put a strain on your resources. Both use a secure, one-way TLS connection to connect back to Panopta’s monitoring infrastructure.
Also, the OnSight provides automated discovery of your infrastructure, making the onboarding process faster and smoother. Panopta’s OnSight vCollector works in any deployment, whether that be on-prem, in the cloud, or within a containerized environment. We even have native machine images for AWS, Azure, and Docker.
The Panopta Agent, working in tandem with the InSight and public monitoring probes, is OS agnostic, meaning you can easily add it to your Unix, Linus, or Windows instances. With many out-of-box features, flexibility for custom plugins, support for all instances types, and the ability to ingest both custom metrics and incidents, the Agent is a powerful tool to have at your disposal.
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Panopta’s pricing is usage-based, meaning you’ll never pay for more than you need, or make sacrifices for a more affordable price. With unlimited users, alerts, and dashboards, Panopta is an affordable way to track all of your infrastructure, whether you have 5 servers or 500.
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Panopta Reviews
Panopta Reviews
Solid, reliable and configurable monitoring and alerting solution
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.
Just the right amount of monitoring
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!
Basic Network Monitoring Platform for startups
not so satisfied but I think the amount of money we pay for Panopta is just fair to the benefits we receive
Solid performance, mostly
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.
Great System Monitoring Solution
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.
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Solid, reliable and configurable monitoring and alerting 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.
Just the right amount of monitoring
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
Basic Network Monitoring Platform for startups
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
Solid performance, mostly
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.
Great System Monitoring Solution
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 Panopta
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.
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Panopta Pricing
Panopta Pricing
Panopta’s pricing is usage-based, meaning you’ll never pay for more than you need, or make sacrifices for a more affordable price. With unlimited users, alerts, and dashboards, Panopta is an affordable way to track all of your infrastructure, whether you have 5 servers or 500.
Panopta’s pricing is usage-based, meaning you’ll never pay for more than you need, or make sacrifices for a more affordable price. With unlimited users, alerts, and dashboards, Panopta is an affordable way to track all of your infrastructure, whether you have 5 servers or 500.
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Additional information for Panopta
Additional information for Panopta
Key features of Panopta
- Availability of public reports
- Cutting edge control panel and dashboard
- Distributed monitoring network
- Monitoring every 60 seconds
- Real-time performance statistics
- SMS notifications
- Unlimited notification contacts
- Variety of outage tools
Benefits
+ On-prem, cloud, and container coverage, making it easy to monitor all of a team’s deployments.
+ OS agnostic with optimized Agents for Linux, Unix, and Microsoft environments.
+ Unlimited dashboards, reports, and status pages, all of which can be customized to a team’s needs.
+ Built-in monitoring, alerting, and incident management allowing teams to consolidate their tools and collaborate smoothly.
+ SaaS-delivery makes with weekly, automatic updates, so Panopta will always be up-to-date.
Panopta FAQs
Panopta FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Panopta.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Panopta offer?
Panopta offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$6,00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Panopta’s pricing is usage-based, meaning you’ll never pay for more than you need, or make sacrifices for a more affordable price. With unlimited users, alerts, and dashboards, Panopta is an affordable way to track all of your infrastructure, whether you have 5 servers or 500.
Q. What are the main features of Panopta?
Panopta offers the following features:
- Availability of public reports
- Cutting edge control panel and dashboard
- Distributed monitoring network
- Monitoring every 60 seconds
- Real-time performance statistics
- SMS notifications
- Unlimited notification contacts
- Variety of outage tools
Q. Who are the typical users of Panopta?
Panopta has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Non Profit, Freelancers, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Panopta support?
Panopta supports the following languages:
English
Q. What type of pricing plans does Panopta offer?
Panopta has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Q. Does Panopta support mobile devices?
Panopta supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Panopta integrate with?
Panopta integrates with the following applications:
AlertOps, BigPanda, Jira, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, PagerDuty, Slack, Twitter, VictorOps, xMatters
Q. What level of support does Panopta offer?
Panopta offers the following support options:
FAQs, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support
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.