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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

10 out of 10
September 29, 2023
We are using Zabbix to monitor server , ICMP, Hardware and interfaces. The Zabbix version 6.4 gives the accurate information and …
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Zabbix Power Users

9 out of 10
July 25, 2018
Incentivized
We use Zabbix to monitor both the internal IT Infrastructure, as well as the external IT Infrastructure. It was first implemented in 2010 …
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Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
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Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees
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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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Frequently Asked Questions

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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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.

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September 29, 2023

Zabbix is best over all

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
February 24, 2023

"The network guardian, excellent product."

Armando Gomez Alarcon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Armando Gomez Alarcon
Analista
EMCALI - Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.

May 05, 2022

Please see this Zabby review of Zabbix.

Asad Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Asad Khan
Technical CARE Specialist
Nokia (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
February 25, 2022

My Honest review for Zabbix

Umair Mehboob | TrustRadius Reviewer
Umair Mehboob
Senior Devops Engineer
iENGINEERING (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
May 01, 2021

An amazing, very flexible and free monitoring platform

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
December 05, 2019

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

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 17, 2019

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

EV
Eduardo Viero
IT Infrastructure Specialist
RANDON S.A (Automotive, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
June 20, 2019

Best FOSS software for monitoring

Thomas Higgins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Thomas Higgins
Infrastructure Engineer
Matthews International (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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).
July 25, 2018

Zabbix Power Users

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Internet Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
July 24, 2018

The Customizability of Zabbix is Awesome

Eric O'Callaghan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eric O'Callaghan
Linux Engineer
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
January 20, 2018

Great monitoring platform

Verified User
Manager in Customer Service
Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
April 24, 2017

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

Josh Quint | TrustRadius Reviewer
Josh Quint
Lead AWS Systems Architect
Turing Group (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
April 12, 2017

Zabbix is Overall a good tool

Nishanthi Mohan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nishanthi Mohan
DevOps Engineer
FICO (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
April 04, 2017

Zabbix - The Monitoring Swiss Army Knife

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospitality Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
March 28, 2017

Zabbix - A must have tool in your infrastructure

Deepshikha Gandhi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Deepshikha Gandhi
DevOps Engineer
Magnetic (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
December 01, 2015

Open source products can mirror more expensive technology with some ingenuity

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
December 01, 2015

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

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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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