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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

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
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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 Usability highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Zabbix are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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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
  • 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
Cons
  • The official documentation isn't too friendly for first timers
  • Requires considerable knowledge of Operating Systems, Database and PHP tuning.
Likelihood to Recommend
Since it is highly customizable and flexible, Zabbix can fit most use cases.

Zabbix is best over all

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 29, 2023
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
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
  • ICMP monitor
  • Disk health monitoring
  • Interfaces monitoring
Cons
  • WhatsApp integrations
  • Trigger customisation
  • User interface
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.

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

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 24, 2017
JQ
Josh Quint
Lead AWS Systems Architect
Turing Group (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
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
  • 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.
Cons
  • The web frontend isn't always intuitive, can be hard to find things that you know you saw somewhere!
  • Zabbix expressions require somewhat of a steep learning curve.
  • Documentation not always as complete as it could be for some options.
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.

"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
  • Easy to configure.
  • Centralized monitoring.
  • Web-based interface.
  • Flexible.
  • Distributed control system.
  • Secure user authentication.
  • Supports different operating systems.
Cons
  • I think some work should be done on the interface to change its appearance and organization to create a more pleasant experience.
  • It would be very useful to have more resources in documentation to perform certain processes on the tool, which would help to cover a better development.
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.

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

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
December 05, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees
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
  • 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.
Cons
  • Setting up items, triggers, hosts, classes, etc. is first tedious, secondly not very obvious.
  • Auto-discovery can get tricky if you don't have the correct configuration bits.
  • Overall the UI is functional, but not necessarily pretty.
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.
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