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What is Zabbix?

Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.

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Zabbix is best over all

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 29, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We are using Zabbix to monitor server , ICMP, Hardware and interfaces. The Zabbix version 6.4 gives the accurate information and alerts.and we are using smartmontool to monito...
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Verified user
Engineer
Zabbix3 years of experience

Zabbix honest review from a satisfied user

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 27, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I use it to monitor the network devices of various customers. It immediately alerts when there is a link down, device down, high resource utilization etc. It helps me keep the...
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Verified user
Team Lead
Zabbix1 year of experience

Review Of Zabbix - Worth The Effort Eventually

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 20, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use Zabbix to monitor pretty much everything plugged into our corporate network. This includes the basics like firewalls and switches and server hosts to the weird stuff li...
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Verified user
Technician
Zabbix3 years of experience

"The network guardian, excellent product."

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 24, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use Zabbix in our company for the control and monitoring of each of the Gigabit Ethernet interfaces of the transport network, based on the premise that our network is a rin...
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Armando Gomez Alarcon
Analyst - Information Technology
Analista
EMCALI - Telecomunicaciones
Zabbix8 years of experience

Please see this Zabby review of Zabbix.

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 5, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We monitor Virtual network functions (VNFs) alarms & performance graphs on Zabbix. It is basically an FM & PM system that collects data from all the nodes & aggreg...
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Asad Khan
Engineer - Engineering
Technical CARE Specialist
Nokia
Zabbix4 years of experience

My Honest review for Zabbix

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 25, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Zabbix is the complete monitoring tool that can monitor any type of environment, We are monitoring Amazon-hosted EC2 instances and also Azure Virtual machines. Zabbix is very ...
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Umair Mehboob
Manager - Information Technology
Senior Devops Engineer
iENGINEERING
Zabbix4 years of experience

An amazing, very flexible and free monitoring platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 1, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We're using Zabbix for almost 4 years now to monitor some specific servers and applications in our South America (+Portugal) sites. It is configured to run discovers on our v...
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Verified user
Analyst
Zabbix3 years of experience

A powerful, customizable and flexible monitoring tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 15, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I use Zabbix to monitor our infrastructure, network, services and applications.
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Faustine Chisasa
Engineer - Engineering
Network Engineer
Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation
Zabbix1 year of experience

One monitoring tool that has it all

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 17, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
As an open-source monitoring solution, Zabbix is our preferred choice. Our company has been using it since 2017 to monitor all infrastructure. The overview we get from it is f...
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Verified user
Manager
Zabbix2 years of experience

Zabbix a good solution if you have the time to dive in.

Rating: 5 out of 10
December 5, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Zabbix is currently one of our main monitoring applications (next to Munin). It is used to monitor the state of hardware (temperatures, hardware-errors), the state of the oper...
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Verified user
Engineer
Zabbix5 years of experience

Reliable monitoring for a perfect profile of your network assets and connections.

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 25, 2019
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use Zabbix to monitor network assets and customer links to generate reports and resolve potential problems in its infrastructure.
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Ricardo Melo
Analyst - Information Technology
Network Analyst
Aloo Telecom
Zabbix4 years of experience

Zabbix is the best open source-based NOC platform you can find

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 17, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
In the beginning, we started using Zabbix in a small deployment, running the Linux box, deployed as a docker container. As we got familiar with the infrastructure, we decided ...
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Eduardo Viero
Engineer - Information Technology
IT Infrastructure Specialist
RANDON S.A
Zabbix1 year of experience

Best FOSS software for monitoring

Rating: 6 out of 10
June 20, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Zabbix is primarily being used to monitor servers and services running on them, though it is starting to be used also to monitor network components as well. Secondarily, it is...
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Thomas Higgins
Engineer - Information Technology
Infrastructure Engineer
Matthews International
Zabbix1 year of experience

Zabbix Power Users

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 25, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Zabbix to monitor both the internal IT Infrastructure, as well as the external IT Infrastructure. It was first implemented in 2010 and it has evolved significantly over...
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Verified user
Director
Zabbix8 years of experience

Big fans of Large-Scale Zabbix for a decade

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 25, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are big fans of Zabbix and use it as our core monitoring system for our Chinese MSP business, monitoring thousands of hosts for hundreds of customers across dozens of locat...
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Steve Mushero
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
CEO
OpsStack
Zabbix10 years of experience
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What is Zabbix?

Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.

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Product Details

What is Zabbix?

Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. The core program is free, with paid support from the vendor. It provides out-of-the-box templates from Zabbix and community developers. Zabbix includes network health measurements, including memory utilization, packet loss rate, and predictive trends in bandwidth usage and downtimes. These measurements can be adjusted using custom thresholds for network health and security issue alerts.


Zabbix also offers automation capabilities, including automatic network detection, configuration management, and report generation. It also enables remote and scripted remediation efforts when an issue is detected. The open-source format of the software is designed to support customization by users and the community.

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Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 5.

The most common users of Zabbix are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users of Zabbix have made several recommendations based on their experiences with the open-source monitoring tool.

Many reviewers suggest setting up a separate virtual server for Zabbix to facilitate an easy installation and configuration process. This approach allows for better manageability and flexibility in integrating Zabbix into existing infrastructure.

Zabbix is highly recommended for its ability to provide customizable alerts and monitoring capabilities. Users appreciate the flexibility to tailor notifications according to their specific requirements, allowing them to stay informed about critical events and issues.

Several users recommend Zabbix specifically for network performance monitoring. They find it suitable for large-scale environments, making it an ideal choice for big companies that need to monitor metrics across tens of thousands of devices.

While many users find Zabbix to be a valuable monitoring tool, some have also noted a few considerations. It has been mentioned by some reviewers that Zabbix may not be very intuitive and can be challenging to set up initially. To overcome this hurdle, users advise seeking support from the Zabbix IRC channel or having a Linux administrator assist with the server setup.

A few users have observed that Zabbix can be resource hungry compared to other monitoring solutions like Nagios. They mention that tuning and optimizing Zabbix may require additional effort to achieve optimal performance.

Overall, reviewers recommend conducting due diligence and planning ahead before implementing Zabbix. While it may require some initial investment in terms of time and resources, users find that Zabbix offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities and steadily improves its user interface over time. For smaller businesses or those utilizing virtual machines, reviewers suggest giving Zabbix a try as it can be deployed effectively in such environments.

Reviews

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Zabbix is best over all

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 29, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Zabbix to monitor server , ICMP, Hardware and interfaces. The Zabbix version 6.4 gives the accurate information and alerts.and we are using smartmontool to monitor disk bad sectors. The configuration part is smartmontool and smart Zabbix agent 2 for windows and Linux is good and easy to send notification on telegram.
Pros and Cons
  • ICMP monitor
  • Disk health monitoring
  • Interfaces monitoring
Likelihood to Recommend
We are using Zabbix on our organisation to monitor our infrastructure to make sure uptime according to our SLA. there are multiple Zabbix dashboard to monitor our infrastructure. These are helping us to monitor well . If any outage detected our concern team take action and mitigate the same . I strongly recommend Zabbix.

Zabbix honest review from a satisfied user

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 27, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use it to monitor the network devices of various customers.
It immediately alerts when there is a link down, device down, high resource utilization etc.
It helps me keep the network up and running 24x7
Pros and Cons
  • Alerts when a device or link is down
  • Can monitor the usage and utilization of bandwidth and resources
  • Checks and alerts for IOS updates
Likelihood to Recommend
Since this is an open source tool, it immensely helps startups who have no budget for monitoring tools.
It's easy install and manage.
Monitor your network 24x7 for free

Review Of Zabbix - Worth The Effort Eventually

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 20, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Zabbix to monitor pretty much everything plugged into our corporate network. This includes the basics like firewalls and switches and server hosts to the weird stuff like phone system PBXs and time clocks. Zabbix does have a steep learning curve and I had to watch a bunch of YT videos to understand how it wants to be setup. Since its open source, it likes to assume that everybody using Zabbix is going to have the same kind of skills as the developers, which is what holds back Zabbix from a bigger user base. It is very powerful software and can display enormous amounts of USEFUL information but its all hidden behind a user interface that is not as user friendly as it could be. I spent a good 40 hours doing the setup and configuration of Zabbix when I started at my current employer. The dashboards showing live firewall and switch activity blew away my boss and he said this was a game changer. The next question was could he tinker with it and add in more stuff to be watched. I said yes sure but have you got 10 hours for me to show the basics? My review of Zabbix is that it is fantastic software, if you have the time to dedicate to the setup.
Pros and Cons
  • Graphs of live network activity from switches and firewalls
  • Shows SNMP data from hardware server out of band SOCs
  • Complex alerting from hardware and lots of different kinds of OSs
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for large complex networks where using something like PRTG may be too expensive. Not all worth the effort for small networks or small organizations with a lot of cloud activity.

"The network guardian, excellent product."

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 24, 2023
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Zabbix in our company for the control and monitoring of each of the Gigabit Ethernet interfaces of the transport network, based on the premise that our network is a ring topology, we have distributed probes at strategic points that allow us to collect real and timely data on the status and behavior of each interface, On the other hand and not less important it facilitates the verification and monitoring of the BGP sessions with our international provider, a fundamental aspect since it depends on them that we can offer the service to our customers, we use it only in our department and with zabbix we can perform routine tasks such as backup, alarms and automatic monitoring quickly and effectively.

Pros and Cons
  • Easy to configure.
  • Centralized monitoring.
  • Web-based interface.
  • Flexible.
  • Distributed control system.
  • Secure user authentication.
  • Supports different operating systems.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is ideal for companies of any size, thanks to its flexibility and scalability, it is also very adaptable to different environments, it is very suitable for monitoring the availability and performance of industrial equipment, services and network hardware simultaneously and in real time, to control the resources available on the network, to centralize heterogeneous networks among others, it also facilitates its modification and design to be fully open source.

Please see this Zabby review of Zabbix.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 05, 2022
AK
Asad Khan
Technical CARE Specialist
Nokia (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We monitor Virtual network functions (VNFs) alarms & performance graphs on Zabbix. It is basically an FM & PM system that collects data from all the nodes & aggregates them in the form of user-readable graphs & XL sheets. It is also used to set performance-based alerts in the system & it can also be used as an aggregator for a big NMS type system like Nokia's NetAct.
Pros and Cons
  • Alarm monitoring.
  • Performance graphs.
  • Creation of new alerts - either fault based or performance based.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is very well suited for infrastructure monitoring i.e. the underlying host servers, basically, compute nodes. However, it has limited FM & PM capabilities for the workloads, i.e., the virtual machines (VMs). Zabbix has an easy-to-use GUI which can be explored easily & provides good filtering of the data.

My Honest review for Zabbix

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 25, 2022
UM
Umair Mehboob
Senior Devops Engineer
iENGINEERING (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Zabbix is the complete monitoring tool that can monitor any type of environment, We are monitoring Amazon-hosted EC2 instances and also Azure Virtual machines. Zabbix is very active in communicating with its agents. This tool is open-source and can be deployed on any Windows/Linux-based machine. We are monitoring more than 200 servers including the websites and windows services.
Pros and Cons
  • Server health checks.
  • Websites monitoring.
  • Windows services.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is very well suited in monitoring health checks of servers and websites but Zabbix needs to add more health checks for other Amazon services including RDS. Zabbix provides complete support for creating custom templates but Zabbix must need to add pre-built templates. This tool is open-source so anyone can use this tool.

An amazing, very flexible and free monitoring platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 01, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We're using Zabbix for almost 4 years now to monitor some specific servers and applications in our South America (+Portugal) sites.
It is configured to run discovers on our vCenter to grab any new VM and to start monitoring its CPU, Mem, Disk usage, etc. For specific applications, those more critical to the business, we create templates to monitor the services.
We have also created some tests using CURL to authenticate to applications and measure the end-user experience, so we can generate alerts when an important application is taking more time than it was supposed to authenticate.
It also has a great 'SLA' dashboard, where you can see the amount of time that an specific application was out-of-service during a period of time. We use it to provide some evidences to the business. Those applications can be constituted by multiple servers, services, databases, etc... It is very flexible on this level.
Pros and Cons
  • Flexibility - as an open source application it is always evolving and adding new features
  • It is free
  • A wide range of natively supported technologies
  • Several options for monitoring, from agent to SNMP and so on
Likelihood to Recommend
From my stand point, [Zabbix is] very well suited for small and medium enterprises. The main benefit it is also it's worst quality: It is free / open source.
You don't have costs to implement and to use it, but in the other hand you don't have a professional support or SLAs to rely on. In case you base your monitoring of critical systems on Zabbix and it has an issue, you need to appeal to the community and it can take a long time to have an answer or have your issue fixed.
For these reasons I think it cant be the foundation of a monitoring process on large enterprises, but you can use it as a complement to have more flexibility.

A powerful, customizable and flexible monitoring tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 15, 2020
FC
Faustine Chisasa
Network Engineer
Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Zabbix to monitor our infrastructure, network, services and applications.
Pros and Cons
  • Flexible, can be customized to fit pretty much any use case
  • Multi-tenancy support, allows different teams and customers to be granted controlled access to host groups, dashboards and UI sections
  • Automatic discovery of hosts and host items
  • Highly customizable dashboards, maps, graphs and out of box templates
  • Powerful alerting
  • Availability of a well formatted official documentation that has the basic stuff
  • Powerful API for integration with other systems
  • Friendly user community, very important for FOSS
  • Clear and open roadmap
Likelihood to Recommend
Since it is highly customizable and flexible, Zabbix can fit most use cases.

One monitoring tool that has it all

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 17, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As an open-source monitoring solution, Zabbix is our preferred choice. Our company has been using it since 2017 to monitor all infrastructure. The overview we get from it is fabulous. It's immediate and it provides very clear information on many levels depending on what you want to see based on user roles and permissions. You can configure absolutely everything you can image with it.
Pros and Cons
  • Zabbix does monitor any kind of IT solution for us like servers, networks, services, virtual machines, databases or websites.
  • The new interface on Zabbix is really great.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's perfect for large scale infrastructure as it has a lot of features included.

Zabbix a good solution if you have the time to dive in.

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
December 05, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Zabbix is currently one of our main monitoring applications (next to Munin). It is used to monitor the state of hardware (temperatures, hardware-errors), the state of the operating system (running, load, memory usage, etc.) and the state of services (running, network-connections, load, etc.). Additionally, some services can report on further metrics, e.g. if files are outdated or show unreasonable behavior. Through the trigger-framework, we can start automated mitigation, as well as manually inspect the issue.
Pros and Cons
  • History graphs show long-term trends, but still allow you to dig down to the minute.
  • Custom dashboards allow for teams to only monitor what's relevant for them.
  • The trigger-framework is pretty mighty and can act on a lot of metrics. This makes it also sometimes hard to comprehend.
Likelihood to Recommend
For large organizations with a team around monitoring, it is a very practical tool to manage your infrastructure. It allows autoconfiguration/autodiscovery of hosts and metrics. When you think of monitoring a single host, or just a few, there are other tools out there that may be easier to set-up; thinking for example of net-data.

Reliable monitoring for a perfect profile of your network assets and connections.

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 25, 2019
RM
Ricardo Melo
Network Analyst
Aloo Telecom (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Zabbix to monitor network assets and customer links to generate reports and resolve potential problems in its infrastructure.
Pros and Cons
  • Monitor connection availability.
  • Monitor network assets.
  • Generate reports on the performance of network assets.
  • Generate reports on the performance of customer connections.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is ​​best suited for environments with computers running Windows (for the web interface) and where constant monitoring of assets and network connections is required.

Zabbix is the best open source-based NOC platform you can find

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 17, 2019
EV
Eduardo Viero
IT Infrastructure Specialist
RANDON S.A (Automotive, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In the beginning, we started using Zabbix in a small deployment, running the Linux box, deployed as a docker container. As we got familiar with the infrastructure, we decided to start using to basically monitor some servers. As we got confident, we started to monitor all the servers on-premise and some servers on a private cloud and finally, we included the network assets. Currently, it's been used just by our IT department and our main goal is to have a tool capable to monitor and early detect infrastructure issues to act as quick as possible.
Pros and Cons
  • Zabbix is capable of monitors servers using its own agent. With that, it can collect detailed information about the asset and store it in its own database. Once that information is stored, Zabbix can alert potential issues and even be used to evaluate and run analysis for capacity planning.
  • Zabbix servers are very simple to deploy. You can run on a Windows box, Linux box or even in Docker containers. It's very scalable and robust and doesn't need too many resources to run.
  • Due to its open framework, you can easily integrate Zabbix to other front end platforms, like Grafana. We did that to leverage our previous knowledge to present graphics in Grafana with data sourced by Zabbix.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are familiar with the NOC concept and have some background with the main concepts of monitoring and alarms, Zabbix is a powerful tool that could help you build your own NOC from the ground up. On the other hand, if you don't have experience with the matter, I suggest you read about NOC concepts before you deep dive into deploying Zabbix, because it will help you a lot when you understand the whys and hows.

Best FOSS software for monitoring

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
June 20, 2019
TH
Thomas Higgins
Infrastructure Engineer
Matthews International (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Zabbix is primarily being used to monitor servers and services running on them, though it is starting to be used also to monitor network components as well. Secondarily, it is being used as a Synthetic User Monitor for web applications.
Pros and Cons
  • Collecting hardware data - CPU, Memory, Network, and Disk Metrics are collected and reported on.
  • Flexible design - It is very easy to build out even very large environments via the templating system. You can also start where you are - network monitoring, server monitoring, etc. and then build it out from there as time and resources permit.
  • Provides a "plugin architecture" (via XML templates) to allow end users to extend it to monitor all kinds of equipment, software, or other metrics that are not already added into the software already.
  • Very complete documentation. Almost every aspect of Zabbix has been documented and reported on.
  • Cost - Zabbix is FOSS software and always free. Support is reasonably priced and readily available.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is probably the best classical monitoring software out there that is also FOSS. It is superior to Nagios and other similar software from implementation to utilization, and equal in capabilities. It is equally capable to SolarWinds (and competitors), and more expandable (thanks to the support of user-generated XML templates), but at the cost of time, knowledge, and effort. It serves a different market than pure cloud monitoring solutions, though they do overlap heavily, so it probably is not as well suited to cloud-only monitoring (though it can be set up to work effectively in this role as well). However, given the flexibility of on-prem monitoring as well, it can be an option in conjunction with, or in place of the cloud-only monitoring if that is a need.

Overall, I would put Zabbix on par with SolarWinds and the main differentiator is where are the costs going to be paid - in end-user training and support of Zabbix or in the commercial, ease of use provided by SolarWinds (and competitors).

Zabbix Power Users

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 25, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
8 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Zabbix to monitor both the internal IT Infrastructure, as well as the external IT Infrastructure. It was first implemented in 2010 and it has evolved significantly over the years, giving us a single pane of glass for monitoring systems, storage, network and the applications themselves. By implementing a solution that provides us this level of visibility, Engineers only have a single place to look to find the root cause of an issue, rather than jumping from system to system, trying to correlate events.
Zabbix is heavily used by Systems, Network and Database Engineers as well as Applications Developers to provide visibility to what is happening in the environment, to notice a problem before our users do.
We have implemented Zabbix so that there is a central Zabbix server (hosted in AWS), with Zabbix proxies at each physical location where there is infrastructure. This way if the Zabbix server goes down, no data is lost, as it is cached on each of the proxies until connectivity is restored to the Zabbix server.
Pros and Cons
  • Zabbix is able to provide us a single pane of glass for monitoring. It can handle Systems, Database, Network and application level alerts and send those alerts to the appropriate parties.
  • Zabbix graphs all metrics that come in. This means it's easy to spot trends and create alerts based on when those trends cross user-defined thresholds.
  • Zabbix allows for the escalation of issues. If someone sleeps through an alert in the middle of the night, it can easily be escalated to the next tier.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is well suited in an environment where connectivity is possible between all hosts in the network. Zabbix agents need to be able to "phone home" to the Zabbix server or a proxy. If connectivity is not possible between the agent and the server (typically the server is going to live in the "trust" section of the network, rather than a DMZ), Zabbix may not be a good fit. Zabbix is also appropriate in a cross-platform environment.
Zabbix is also highly appropriate in shops that are interested in building their own monitoring infrastructure, rather than using a service. These services are obviously not free, but the time that you invest in Zabbix may make up for that monthly spend.

Big fans of Large-Scale Zabbix for a decade

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 25, 2018
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are big fans of Zabbix and use it as our core monitoring system for our Chinese MSP business, monitoring thousands of hosts for hundreds of customers across dozens of locations, data centers, and cloud. We've customized it with some UI enhancements, API additions, and DB integrations into ticket and service systems, too.
Pros and Cons
  • Template system is really great, making it super easy to add new services and monitoring, graphs, etc. to any server.
  • Security system is very useful for multiple teams, groups, and customers.
  • Very flexible data gathering on a wide variety of protocols.
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited to traditional IT and Internet monitoring, with servers, VMs, databases, etc.

Less-suited to highly dynamic environments, heavily in the cloud, with serverless, Docker, Lambda, etc.

The Customizability of Zabbix is Awesome

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 24, 2018
EO
Eric O'Callaghan
Linux Engineer
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
5 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
While working at the Comcast headquarters as a Linux Engineer on their Splunk team, I set up Zabbix to monitor approximately one-thousand (1,000) physical servers running Splunk. It allowed us deeper insight into the use and performance of Splunk throughout our infrastructure. It also gave us the ability to prevent small problems (such as hard drive failures) from growing unchecked and leading to serious outages.
Pros and Cons
  • Alerts; Zabbix allows deep customization of conditions and alerts giving you the ability to perform nearly any scripted action in a variety of scenarios
  • Inventory; having one place to see a list of all on-going problems and list of servers within your organization is critical
  • Graphs; screens or graphs showing customizable and color-coded historical usage is a necessity in any monitoring software
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is a great solution when monitoring a majority of Linux servers, in my experience. I have never personally used it with Microsoft Windows servers and I'm not sure that I would recommend doing so based on my lack of familiarity with doing so.

In any case, I find Zabbix incredibly useful if you want a clean UI that lets you monitor absolutely anything that you could possibly imagine. The ability to set up "Templates" and "UserParameter"s within Zabbix are easily my favorite features.

Great monitoring platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
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January 20, 2018
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Verified User
Zabbix
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Zabbix is a simple to setup and easy to manage solution. Very little in-depth tech skills needed to deploy initially due to pre-made ISOs and virtual machines, and with the help of a raft of templates available for free online to make it an essential monitoring tool for any business. Support is available if you want it - although from my perspective it looked to be costly if you simply want light email only assistance on your setup.
Pros and Cons
  • Keeping an eye on our asset estate via SNMP is easy
  • Single Pane view
  • Wealth of plugins available to then customise for alerting
Likelihood to Recommend
This is our core monitoring platform, used to monitor all servers and perimeters for any issues in the network. We utilize it to alert the team on any low disks, failed devices or loss of ping to certain aspects of the network. It also monitors flow and other metrics via SNMP with a single pane view for easy management.

Fantastic OpenSource alternative to Nagios! Much cheaper than SaaS alternatives.

Rating: 8 out of 10
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April 24, 2017
JQ
Josh Quint
Lead AWS Systems Architect
Turing Group (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
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Zabbix
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Zabbix organization-wide to monitor several environments in AWS. Use of the Zabbix proxy allows us to manage many environments from a centralized location. We can graph and alert on all separate environments in a monolithic fashion. Zabbix's new trending and forecasting allow us to model performance based on trends in each environment.
Pros and Cons
  • Allows for centralized monitoring of many separated environments.
  • Out-of-the box templates for many operating systems.
  • Auto discovery and confirmation allows new environments to be added quickly and easily.
Likelihood to Recommend
Larger environments that are spread across different networks and physicalities play well with Zabbix with the use of Zabbix Proxy. It isn't very useful in things like AWS AutoScaled environments as IP addresses of the nodes constantly change and there's no good way to maintain the ephemeral nature of that type of environment in Zabbix.

Zabbix is Overall a good tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
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April 12, 2017
NM
Nishanthi Mohan
DevOps Engineer
FICO (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
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Zabbix
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It's used across the whole organization. It's used to monitor the server parameters, application URLs, logs etc.
Pros and Cons
  • Server monitoring
  • URL availability
  • We write custom application monitoring scripts and send the data to Zabbix.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is a good monitoring tool for servers and availability, but it needs to be used with other tools to achieve the required monitoring. There are some lacking features like browser synthetic monitoring, application performance monitoring etc..but overall it's good.

Zabbix - The Monitoring Swiss Army Knife

Rating: 8 out of 10
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April 04, 2017
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Verified User
Zabbix
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Zabbix is being used for data collection and monitoring sections of our network. We use its information to plot out future resource bottlenecks, plan hardware upgrades, identify unusual usage patterns, failure rates, uptimes and execution of maintenance scripts.
Pros and Cons
  • Alerting, while it can be difficult to initially learn, Zabbix's alerting system allows you fantastic control over how and when each of your team members receives alerts. This has caused a large decrease in "Friendly Fire" spam, preventing our staff members from getting complacent when they see a alert come through.
  • In a couple of clicks, you can turn any monitorable data into a graph, which can then be deployed to any number of systems. Its ease of use makes it a fantastic tool.
  • Zabbix makes adding new devices for monitoring very easy due to its template system.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is an open source platform and because of that, support is lacking and flexibility is high. Zabbix is well suited for an environment with budget constraints, or the need for a monitoring platform with unlimited customization. I also found the template system to be extremely easy to work with, allowing for the near instant deploying of device types that were already configured. Making Zabbix a good fit in environments where devices come and go with regularity.

Zabbix - A must have tool in your infrastructure

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 28, 2017
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our operations team uses Zabbix to monitor our company's physical and virtual infrastructure. Zabbix monitors our servers, network gear, CPU performance data and application uptime. We have integrated Zabbix alerts with PagerDuty to get pinged when an issue arises.
Pros and Cons
  • Monitoring performance indicators like CPU, memory, network, disk space and processes can be done easily with Zabbix agent, which is available for Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms.
  • Zabbix can gather stats like disk failures, temperature and voltage from hardware through IPMI, thus ensuring uptime and reduces risk.
  • Zabbix lets you integrate it with your custom checks. You can write your own check scripts in Bash, Python or Perl and integrate it with Zabbix.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is great for monitoring protocols like HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, etc. It also has great features like visual analysis, customizable dashboards and system "templates". Features like auto-discovery and auto-registration let us manage infrastructure on the fly. The auto-registration function is very handy for automatic monitoring of a new AWS host. When a new cloud host is spun up, Zabbix will automatically start collecting performance and availability data of that node. On the other hand, Zabbix tuning can take a bit of time. You have to learn by experience. It could also improve its agent's footprint on machines. Zabbix is less appropriate if you have a huge, constantly changing infrastructure such as autoscaling. Application level monitoring is better done by other tools out there like Datadog.

Zabbix just works

Rating: 9 out of 10
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December 11, 2015
NW
Nadir Wade
Linux Administrator
Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
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Zabbix
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The company was using a very old version of Nagios at the time. I created a pro/con list for my manager on which monitoring application to switch to. Zabbix ended up being the winner based on features. It is specifically used to monitor EMR servers to ensure they are readily available for Office use at all times. We also used the software to notify support staff if there is an issue. The on-call person will receive the alarm and solve it as needed.
Pros and Cons
  • Nice graphing for non-technical personnel
  • Good monitoring system
  • Versatile for custom scripts
  • Nice options for notification if problems arise
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it will work well in just about any environment where monitoring is necessary

Zabbix 2.4 in a fairly large environment

Rating: 10 out of 10
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December 01, 2015
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Verified User
Zabbix
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Zabbix is used to monitor about 5000 network devices, 1000 servers and other services totaling 8000 hosts. Our IT department is deploying Zabbix to replace older monitoring services, to expand and modernize monitoring and alerting. Alerting is being automated and alerts are to be distributed to the responsible parties and even automate recovery where possible. Zabbix also stores a lot of useful "normal state" performance metrics for reference during problems.
Pros and Cons
  • Supports many different devices and server platforms
  • Customization of alert thresholds and notification actions
  • Automatic resolution of problems via remote commands
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is probably less powerful when dealing with Windows server, but that could just be our platform knowledge.

Open source products can mirror more expensive technology with some ingenuity

Rating: 9 out of 10
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December 01, 2015
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Verified User
Zabbix
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Zabbix is a preferred option for our organization based on its open-source nature and versatile functionality. The Zabbix sender and trap features allow us to set up adhoc alerts based on specific criteria, such as log grepping for error frequency. We also use Logstash in tandem with Zabbix to generate alerts based on Logstash queries.
Pros and Cons
  • Zabbix is capable of true customization. I personally recommend starting with a narrow scope, and broadening Zabbix to monitor more granular activities. Doing a bulk discovery and mass deploying alerts will cause a lot of false positives which are not actionable initially, so it can be a struggle to sift through the noise and find the alerts you really want to act on.
  • Zabbix is easy to deploy, and has a robust feature set.
  • Zabbix is easy to link up to services like PagerDuty, which are beneficial for on-call engineers.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is best suited for companies keeping the open-source mindset. If you're on a budget and want a robust and customizable monitoring system, Zabbix is a winner. Using Zabbix in tandem with Logstash (also open-source) and PagerDuty (nominal monthly fee) can open the potential and real-time alerting capability which will help responsiveness of network operations center (NOC) team members.

Zabbix gives you flexibility, but there's a cost associated with it.

Rating: 9 out of 10
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December 01, 2015
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Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Zabbix is currently in place monitoring servers and network hardware across the entire organization. We're using it to monitor service availability as well and have made attempts to use it for hardware monitoring as well, but the SNMP Trap support is lacking at best and very clunky to implement.
Pros and Cons
  • Service Availability Monitoring.
  • Disk Space Monitoring.
  • Host Availability Monitoring.
Likelihood to Recommend
I've had great experiences in small to medium business where I've managed Zabbix to monitor all of our hosts/services, however in a larger environment it seemed that other parties involved felt that there were better more scalable solutions when it came to monitoring 50,000+ servers. Given my previous experience with Zabbix in smaller environments I think it could be done, but it would require a pretty significant time and money investment to get it going at the larger scale and there were other solutions that required less of an investment at this scale.
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