An amazing, very flexible and free monitoring platform
May 01, 2021
An amazing, very flexible and free monitoring platform
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Zabbix
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.
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.
- 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
- Doesn't have an official support
- Updates depends on the community
- Flexibility - we have the options to build all monitoring's and dashboards we want to
- It allowed us to monitor specific use cases, that were important to the business and we couldn't achieve with "professional" solutions
- SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (npm) and SolarWinds ipMonitor
We're using the Solarwinds suite as our global monitoring standard, but it is very complex and its licensing model makes it difficult to monitor a wide range of technologies. So, we're using Zabbix as a complement on our monitoring process.
Zabbix is a way more flexible and has free integrations to a wide range of technologies. It is also more 'user friendly' and easy to manage.
Zabbix is a way more flexible and has free integrations to a wide range of technologies. It is also more 'user friendly' and easy to manage.
Do you think Zabbix delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Zabbix's feature set?
Yes
Did Zabbix live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Zabbix go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Zabbix again?
Yes