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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
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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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Engineer
Zabbix3 years of experience

Zabbix honest review from a satisfied user

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 27, 2023
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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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Team Lead
Zabbix1 year of experience

Review Of Zabbix - Worth The Effort Eventually

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 20, 2023
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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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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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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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Mobile ApplicationNo

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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Community Insights

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.

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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.
Most Important Features
  • Alerting
  • Showing usage trends
Return on Investment
  • Good ROI when trying to get ahead of network related problems instead of waiting for users to complain
  • Good ROI when doing upgrades or exploratory work on a neglected network
  • Good ROI when showing usage trends to management showing higher actual usage versus what was thought to be happening
Alternatives Considered
Zabbix has no financial cost, PRTG is very expensive but just as impressive capability wise.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
1
Alerting and monitoring of network activity in a non-security context mostly done by SNMP but it can talk to Windows and Linux hosts as well.
Support Headcount Required
1
A general system administrator can use Zabbix as long as they can dedicate the time for the initial setup. A junior help desk would be challenged with the setup of Zabbix. It would be a lot better if the developers made it more accessible to folks who don't necessarily have a coding back ground as there are features that require understanding of coding vocab - which is kinda normal for open source stuff.
Business Processes Supported
  • Alerting
  • Monitoring
  • Displaying trends for usage
Innovative Uses
  • Has a nice feature where dashboards can be customized
Future Planned Uses
  • I would like to see Zabbix being able to monitor clouds natively like O365 or AWS
Likelihood to Renew
9
No cost for Zabbix, only investment is time
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Integration with Other Systems
We wanted something for monitoring that could reliably speak SNMP because most hardware does that by default
Evaluation Lessons Learned
No change
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
Implementation Phases
No
Change Management Lessons
Change management was minimal
Implementation Issues
  • I should not have used the demo appliance install
Implementation Rating
8
Block off an entire week for Zabbix
Support Rating
5
There are paid support options but we have not needed them. You get on the struggle bus and just power through whatever is not making sense.
Premium Support
No because it wasn't needed.
Bug Resolution
No
Exceptional Examples of Zabbix Support
No sadly that has not happened.
Usability
6
If you go deeper than the dashboards, the user friendliness goes away quickly
Easy Tasks
  • Logging in
  • Logging out
Difficult Tasks
  • Everything else
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
No

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.
Return on Investment
  • It improved our view of how customers' network connections worked.
  • We can make proactive monitoring more efficient.
  • Better customer feedback, with data collected from monitoring through Zabbix.
Alternatives Considered
Zabbix was adopted in our framework due to the value, the hardware requirements, the knowledge we had available and the vast documentation on the internet.
Support Rating
1
I never needed support for any issues related to using Zabbix.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
50
They are Level 1, 2 and 3 network analysts and IT analysts.
Support Headcount Required
2
Knowledge of programming, the operation of network devices and servers.
Business Processes Supported
  • Monitor servers
  • Monitor Routers
  • Generation of charts showing performance of network links.
Future Planned Uses
  • Até agora não foram percebidas.
Likelihood to Renew
10
The tool meets our needs well within the organization.
Products Replaced
No
Zabbix replace PRTG
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
An important factor in deciding to deploy zabbix in our organization was the extensive documentation and community surrounding the tool, making it easier to use.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I do not think of changing anything in the way it would proceed from the way it was done earlier.

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
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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).
Return on Investment
  • Zabbix allowed us to see where issues were with a new implementation of software that was having issues at one site but not the other. With the synthetic monitoring piece in play, we were able to isolate and quantify the issue and see who and what was actually having an issue (as compared to the typical user response of "slow").
  • It has taken over 9 man-months to fully implement across a 1600 server global environment. Some of that issue was due to the poor design of the environment (mostly due to M&A processes that were never fully integrated), but part of it was due to no easy way to distribute the agents. Now, with the very recent release of 4.2, there is an MSI to allow for GPO deployments to windows machines, which would help tremendously for Windows-based environments. (Linux and Mac environments will still require extensive scripting or manual installations).
  • Zabbix alerting allowed us to start alerting L2 application and server teams to be aware of disk space issues and resolve them before an outage occurs.
Alternatives Considered
Most of the SolarWinds are separated out, whereas Zabbix includes templates and capabilities for all of them out of the box. Other solutions listed include most or all of them to varying degrees as well.

New Relic is more for Application Monitoring, but the New Relic Infrastructure is a direct competitor. Datadog and Zenoss Cloud are similar. In all cases, infrastructure monitoring is both stronger and cheaper using Zabbix. It is also available on-prem, whereas these other options are not. However, the application side is better for New Relic and Datadog. Have not used Zenoss Cloud to determine it's strength in Application monitoring.

For SolarWinds (all components), WhatsUpGold, and PRTG Network Monitor, Zabbix is an equal competitor. It is cheaper up front, with no recurring subscription or renewal costs (though there are support costs if you choose to purchase it). It can be more difficult, especially compared to WhatsUpGold, which is the easiest to use of all of them (and least flexible). Overall, it is a question of where your money is spent moreso than how much with any of these options.

Nagios is FOSS software as well, but much more difficult to get to a usable state. Once in place, it is probably equal to Zabbix for maintaining.

Finally, Dynatrace is by far the best solution, but it is at a significant price over and above the other options available. It was just too expensive for us to consider our needs.


Other Software Used
Remote Desktop Manager, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Office 365, CentOS
Users and Roles
30
We currently have 30 logins in the application but it is difficult to quantify the number who use it. It is a growing product and it has been expanding in use for the last 9 months. Currently, Infrastructure teams use it for server monitoring, and some application teams are starting to use it for application monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. We are trying to tie in Network teams as well to be able to start correlating server and network outages to get a better picture of the root cause. Ultimately, besides using it for these purposes, management is looking to use it to provide reporting on a variety of things, from server utilization to cost of an outage at various levels, to whatever.
Support Headcount Required
1
I am currently the only in-house person supporting Zabbix and that is only part-time. That is part of why it is taking 9 months to roll out basic monitoring services. In reality, it would help to have 2 or 3 people who know the Zabbix application, at least 1 DBA (part time is fine), and someone who knows each application and/or networking members. This would spread out the implementation, especially with regard to agents and SNMP trap collection, while at the same time allowing people who know the applications best to be able to setup monitoring in a sane and useful way for them.

That said, once implemented, it only takes 1 person who is knowledgeable in Linux to maintain the application, and a DBA to maintain the database(s) (if it isn't the same person). This is independent of scale, in no small part due to the template system it uses.
Business Processes Supported
  • Network monitoring.
  • Server monitoring.
  • Application monitoring.
  • Synthetic user monitoring.
Innovative Uses
  • Don't know if it is unexpected or innovative, but we use it primarily to cut down on known recurring issues before they cause outages.
  • TBD - have not had it long enough to identify new ways to use yet.
Future Planned Uses
  • We want to use it to map our IT network.
  • We want to use it to correlate issues to speed problem identification and time to resolution.
Likelihood to Renew
10
It is free. It didn't cost anything to implement (other than my time and the cost incurred for it) and it is filling a badly needed gap in our IT infrastructure. Support is available if we have issues and can be done annually or paid for on a per incident basis as needed. Expansion, updates, and all other future lifecycle activities are likewise free of cost, so as long as someone is able to implement/maintain the software (and the OSS project is maintained) then I imagine the company will never leave it.
Products Replaced
Yes
SolarWinds - due to cost of SolarWinds products
Key Differentiators
  • Price
There was no other reason other than price.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I was not part of the evaluation or selection process, however, I do know that it was chosen due to price. They no longer wanted to pay for SolarWinds products. Why Zabbix was chosen over Nagios (another free option) is simply because it was easier to implement a trial with the prebuilt VM offered.
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
Implementation Phases
Yes
First rolled out the server/database. Connected a few servers to ensure it was working. Then deleted the servers from the application and added proxy servers. Pointed the servers to the proxy and verified they started collecting data. Once setup was verified, started a staged rollout of agents to all servers for monitoring. Added Proxy servers as needed to spread out the load and to provide resiliency against network outages between sites. After server agent rollout started implementing website monitoring. Now we are starting to setup SNMP monitoring of Network devices.
Change Management Lessons
Change management was minimal
Because we owned the servers the agents were being deployed to, we just needed to identify which servers were being added, and add them. No change management hassles were encountered. Though we did have issues due to our current design where many servers needed to be touched manually rather than a network deployment. This had nothing to do with change management, however, and everything to do with several M&A accquisitions that were not fully integrated with our network yet.
Implementation Issues
  • Scaling the environment. If you don't know what you are monitoring, then it is likely you will not set up the templates correctly to scale the system efficiently. For us, that meant I have had to go back and restart many agents just to get them to pick up new or changed templates.
  • Defining how you will monitor - How will you break down your host groups? By department? By application? By location? All of the above? Each of these works better if set up in advance, but for each implemented, you have exponential growth on the number and combination of templates to set up (at least if you are going to setup auto-registration, which is HIGHLY recommended for scaled deployments).
  • Avoid automatic discovery or use with caution. Unless it is a very small or well-segregated environment, automatic discovery tends to discover more...fluff, than useful information. Further, after discovery, there is a lot of cleanups that typically must be done (naming each device, adding appropriate templates, etc.).
Implementation Rating
6
We are a mainly Windows environment, so it would be useful if we could have used Active Directory to deploy agents. As of version 4.2, Zabbix has announced a new agent MSI file to allow exactly that. Unfortunately, we didn't have that option.

Also, for Linux and MAC deployments, there is no simple way to deploy that. Using remote scripts you may be able to create something, but most places will opt for either SNMP (agentless) or manual installation of agents to add to Zabbix. A way of deploying agents via discovery would go a long way to helping in the adoption of the tool.
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