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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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Eagle eye on your entire infrastructure with Zabbix.

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 8, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Zabbix as a monitoring tool for our entire infrastructure. We monitor network appliances, servers, firewalls, Internet lines, and bandwidth. We also use it to draw maps...
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Verified user
Engineer
Zabbix3 years of experience

Easy to customize and monitor.

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 6, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We started to feel the need of a network monitoring tool few years back when one of our secondary core network connectivity with a partner got down somehow and we had no visib...
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Osman Gani
Manager - Information Technology
Project Coordinator
Hamida Traders Ltd (htl-bd.com)
Zabbix2 years of experience

Great monitoring tool for free.

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 18, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We work for a non-profit organization with around 1500 devices spread over several locations. Zabbix is monitoring a lot of these devices. It can check for hardware, ping, sta...
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Verified user
Administrator
Zabbix6 years of experience

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
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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 Usability highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Zabbix are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Easy to customize and monitor.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
January 06, 2025
OG
Osman Gani
Project Coordinator
Hamida Traders Ltd (htl-bd.com) (Information Technology Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zabbix
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We started to feel the need of a network monitoring tool few years back when one of our secondary core network connectivity with a partner got down somehow and we had no visibility over it until the next routine network check which was 24hours later! Secondary lines are our first line of defense if the primary one goes down, so we were at a great risk but as had no idea at all! so after going through some of the renowned monitoring tool we decided to go with Zabbix as it seemed well equipped with the features that we were looking for. Since then we are using Zabbix along with some other NMS to monitor our connectivity with most our valuable of partners. Zabbix is quite easy to deploy and manage and helps us tom easily identify if anything goes down or offline.
Pros
  • Zabbix can collect metrics from various sources. We have diffrent vendors firewall, router & switches and till now we did not face any issues while monitoring these devices.
  • It's very easy to deploy and moreover the monitoring dashboard is pretty simple to use and customize. We have customized the dashboard to highlight the core connectivity only and it helps us to monitor more efficiently.
  • The alerting system is my favorite part to be honest. We don't have to sit all day in front of the screen to monitor the networks. We get notifications through SMS which helps all of our team members to get aligned when anything goes down.
  • The widgets are highly customizable which helps us to monitor the important lines
Cons
  • Zabbix is a great tool and highly customizable, but the issue is most of the customization has to be done by the administrator which is not preferrable by all. I myself was not much happy with all the manual things at the beginning but gradually i liked it.
  • I have no complain about the dashboard but compared to the modern NMS, Zabbix feels bit backdated. I would suggest improving the dashboard UI as well.
Likelihood to Recommend
Zabbix is well suited in SMB to enterprise grade environment, i think. It is also a great tool for those network admin who wants their NMS to be highly customizable as it supports various triggers, thresholds, and dependencies, which helps alerting and on time notifications for different teams. I would also suggest it to the system administrator for monitoring crucial server and systems.

Great monitoring platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 20, 2018
Verified User
Manager in Customer Service
Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
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
  • Keeping an eye on our asset estate via SNMP is easy
  • Single Pane view
  • Wealth of plugins available to then customise for alerting
Cons
  • User interface is a little cumbersome, but it looks like newer versions are looking to resolve the menu system issues i found
  • If you really delve in, you should be ready for some coding and tweaking
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.

Zabbix 2.4 in a fairly large environment

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 01, 2015
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
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
  • Supports many different devices and server platforms
  • Customization of alert thresholds and notification actions
  • Automatic resolution of problems via remote commands
Cons
  • High level management always wants a "dashboard", while Zabbix can provide several different views, there seem to be third party products to provide alternatives. Maybe a best of breed dashboard could be added to the base product.
  • Zabbix performance largely depends on the performance of the underlying database, it takes planing and good infrastructure to support large environments.
  • It is possible to break things accidentally when making configuration changes, using Update when you meant to Clone, maybe a few strategic "are you sure you want to change this" prompts would help.
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
Incentivized
December 01, 2015
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
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
  • 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.
Cons
  • Zabbix could benefit from integrating with Logstash in a more formalized way. Utilizing these two open-source services compares to the much more expensive Splunk.
  • I think it's important to deploy Zabbix to core systems first, then build more granular monitoring as false alarms are minimized. If you mass deploy Zabbix to all servers with very granular alert thresholds, you will have a hard time sifting through all the noise to get to the actionable alerts you really wanted to see.
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 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
  • 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.
Cons
  • Having worked with other similar tools, I tend to say that the user experience could be improved in some areas. The elements on the user interface are a little confusing, the concept behind them could be a little more intuitive.
  • The discovery process could be improved, giving suggestions and filling some fields with common options, for example.
  • When you add a host that runs it's own Zabbix agent, like a server, it's easy to manage. On the other hand, if you want to add a host which is a network device, for example, you need to run extra steps to ensure you'll see the information you want. That could be improved by using some kind of wizard or tutorial on the interface to guide you.
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.
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