Zabbix

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Open source software for IT infrastructure components

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Francisco
Francisco
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Zabbix monitoring

Reviewed on 2024/01/30

It has been a daily use tool for years in my work. It allows me to see the status of multiple...

It has been a daily use tool for years in my work. It allows me to see the status of multiple servers and applications at a glance.

Pros

Order in the program and number of options. Templates that cover dozens of use cases.

Cons

The database must be maintained periodically

Chamroeunrith
Chamroeunrith
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Zabbix Best Network Monitoring for Enterprise Network

Reviewed on 2021/09/12

previously we were using cacti, but its very mess related to the pooling, and crontab sometime work...

previously we were using cacti, but its very mess related to the pooling, and crontab sometime work sometime not, sometime system/server down 10min but cacti still not alert, finally we find the solution to use the zabbix monitoring, we solved all these problem, even the less storage on server, high io in server, server temperature, router temperature zabbix can report very well. i recommend go with zabbix server save your time, you implement one time use forever, until now i use more than 3 years since 2017.

Pros

zabbix is not the same other platform, its elastic of graph can generate graph very well.
zabbix support both protocol agent and snmp protocol that easy to integrated for all product including server.
zabbix support the alert notification that is perfect and the best notification is integrated with telegram, so each time there have alert it sent to telegram, system administrator/network engineer just sit and look at the telegram chat only.
networking map can draw the map of system and network devices that connect to each other, and it give the accurate information related to traffic bandwidth, cpu process very well.

Cons

there still small problem is some vendor not provide the snmp template to zabbix, so need to discuss with zabbix community.

Craig
Craig
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Not as Good As Open Source Alternatives

Reviewed on 2018/08/06

Pros

It is a pretty polished product that was easy to implement.

Cons

Doesn't offer same flexibility you get from open source alternatives.

Carlos Hugo Martin
Carlos Hugo Martin
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Experience with Zabbix

Reviewed on 2021/08/27

Pros

Its ease of implementation, the options it offers for the different environments that one may face in companies, its capacity for horizontal clarification, its ease of integration with other tools either as data sources or as a receiver.

Cons

There are configurations, such as SNMP, which depending on the vendor and the model can be very complex. It does not have the option of high availability or scale-up unless third-party tools are used.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Zabbix is a Flexible, Reliable, Extensible monitoring solution

Reviewed on 2019/11/19

This is the heart of our business and has saved the day a number of times by alerting us to issues...

This is the heart of our business and has saved the day a number of times by alerting us to issues before there was a catastrophe. It also helps us to see issues to resolve on our own and our clients systems. This has been the heart of our business for two years.

Pros

Zabbix has so many preconfigured templates for servers and service profiles. Is easy to extend and adapt to monitor and alert in new and different ways. Presents a clean dashboard of problem alerts, can track system inventory and can autodiscover hosts and devices. It has become an essential tool for us and is the heart of our business.

Cons

I would like to see it able to run in a leaner hardware profile. Obviously if we're monitoring hundreds of machines we need storage space and cpu/memory to do so, but it can be resource hungry.

Kudzai
Kudzai
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Zabbix Setup in a Medium Enterprise

Reviewed on 2021/09/13

Zabbix solved the monitoring problem for all our platforms at little cost. Troubleshooting is...

Zabbix solved the monitoring problem for all our platforms at little cost. Troubleshooting is relatively easy once the devices are set up. Zabbix needs less monitoring for it to accomplish its tasks. Alerting and integration is excellent.

Pros

It is open-source. This allows for the person responsible to learn a lot with respect to monitoring. As a training tool, it brings trainees up to speed on a lot of concepts quickly. As an open-source tool, it delivers on when compared to its paid alternatives. Setup is relatively easy for an open-source project. The interface is modern, clean, and easy to navigate. Support for popular platforms is wide from operating systems to firewalls and everything in between. Setup is relatively easy for platforms such as operating systems. It can be up and running in less than 15 minutes. The reporting function is excellent with beautiful graphics that show you what you need to know. There are more than enough options for notifications with email, SMS, Teams to mention a few. There is a lot of functionality and documentation before the option to pay for support. Forum support is high and assistance is relatively quick.

Cons

Some of the errors do not provide enough information to troubleshoot issues. Documentation regarding firewalls needs to be updated as some of it is several years old.

Alternatives Considered

PRTG

Reasons for Switching to Zabbix

It is open-source. Free. Assists in training juniors with less abstraction compared to it alternatives.
Yasas Sri
Yasas Sri
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  • Industry: Computer Hardware
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Server monitoring just became easier

Reviewed on 2020/03/12

With Zabbix, currently I'm monitoring physical and virtual server performance and usage [CPU,...

With Zabbix, currently I'm monitoring physical and virtual server performance and usage [CPU, Memory, Storage, etc].

I have realized that Zabbix made my life easier since it sends me alerts as e-mails if any issue occurred in my servers. Specially it helps me to manage my server storage since it sends alerts after severs reach the threshold limits, so I am able to take necessary precautions to maintain my servers.

Pros

Zabbix is the best open-source monitoring tool that allows me to customize templates as I want to monitor any server and desktop operating system and set different threshold limits for alerts by simply editing the xml file.

Not only operating systems, It allows me to monitor VMware ESXi hosts and also the enterprise network devices such as Routers, Switches and Access Points as well.

Cons

With Zabbix, I have tried to monitor Cent OS, Ubuntu OS and Windows 10 OS using SNMP and I have noticed that it takes more time to identify services that are running in the OS (Some times it takes more than 1 hour) and also it can identify only few services with SNMP.

But later-on, I have installed Zabbix agents to all the 3 operating systems and then add them to Zabbix server. Then the server started identifying all the host services with in seconds. So, my recommendation is to always use Zabbix Agent if it is available for the client.

Alternatives Considered

Nagios Core

Reasons for Switching to Zabbix

Price of Zabbix is really low compared with other alternative products in the market.
Martin
Martin
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Excellent Enterprise Monitoring Solution

Reviewed on 2020/05/12

Zabbix is the perfect solution for our organization to deliver proactive monitoring. It gives...

Zabbix is the perfect solution for our organization to deliver proactive monitoring. It gives insights in our business processes and services.

Pros

The software has a very active community. Next to this the options with Zabbix are enormous, you can monitor server and networkcomponents.

Cons

More integrated views and graphs. We are using additional tooling like Graphana, to get additional insights.

Alternatives Considered

Nagios XI

Reasons for Switching to Zabbix

Zabbix is very strong in their network capabilities, especially compared to other solutions in this segment.
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best tool for monitoring

Reviewed on 2019/05/28

It is a great tool for monitoring and alerting. We use the company and it shows very effective, has...

It is a great tool for monitoring and alerting. We use the company and it shows very effective, has good integration with other tools, sending emails and alerts. In addition to being open source

Pros

Monitoring, sending alerts by email, integration with other tools, solid community

Cons

Zabbix could improve the UI but it's a very good tool

Alternatives Considered

Nagios XI

Reasons for Switching to Zabbix

Because Zabbix is open source and very used in world
Cesar Enrique
Cesar Enrique
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Zabbix a useful and easy to use tool

Reviewed on 2023/10/13

We quickly required a tool that would allow us to monitor network devices at the Latam level, we...

We quickly required a tool that would allow us to monitor network devices at the Latam level, we used a demo and it was excellent, so we decided to purchase it.

Pros

The tool has a very simple and intuitive handling so it is not complicated to implement or operate it

Cons

many people use it as a free tool and have generated a bad reputation but in reality there is Zabbix Licensed that has many more functionalities

Mustafa
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Watching your network grow

Reviewed on 2023/12/02

Pros

Easy to add and manage and draw your network appliance.

Cons

Ui could be more nicer to look and feel.

prashant
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Real Time Monitoring with Zabbix

Reviewed on 2023/03/17

Really helpful in Dev-ops provides all inbuilt templates need to some changes in templates and...

Really helpful in Dev-ops provides all inbuilt templates need to some changes in templates and apply in hosts production environment.

Pros

Graph feature is awesome to share the actual incident duration with clients.

Cons

Need to give auto remove notification of last two months.

Alternatives Considered

Nagios XI
Vandana
Vandana
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Automation Monitoring the complete Infrastructure

Reviewed on 2019/04/27

Zabbix is an open source monitoring solution. We are using it from last 2 years to monitor our...

Zabbix is an open source monitoring solution. We are using it from last 2 years to monitor our complete infrastructure using it. The immediate feedback using email and Jabber helps to dig fast and on right place. Monitoring always needs protection on roles and permission as it has access to sensitive data also, so the new tag based management provide the roles and triggers that need to be executed. The new HTML based email looks more nice in all new Zabbix 4.2 version.

Pros

Zabbix is an open source monitoring solution to monitor our complete infrastructure. Zabbix helps in monitoring any kind of IT solution like servers, network, services, virtual machine, database or website monitoring. The new interface and features included in Zabbix 4.2 are really impressive. Zabbix helps in storing the data in JSON format so other application can also use it. Zabbix proxy is highly recommended for large scale of production system. The low level discovery automatically search the new nodes without any effort.

Cons

Zabbix notification and per-user view are the areas that need to be enhanced more and come with the more customization options. The support tickets sounds expensive if you buy some start packs so an Enterprise pack is always recommended if you need to implement it to complete infrastructures of a large organization.

Abhinav
Abhinav
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A complete Automation Monitoring Solution for DevOps environment

Reviewed on 2019/03/25

We are monitoring the complete infrastructure with the Zabbix and implementing it with each new...

We are monitoring the complete infrastructure with the Zabbix and implementing it with each new project we are working on. The agentless monitoring provides the advantage on some hand where installing of agent is not easy or possible. The newly designed web interface is user friendly and help in implementing and deploy with ease. Dashboard also provide the push notification to right user group about its issue and monitoring engineer can detect the root cause of the issue.

Pros

The new Zabbix 4.0 has significantly enhanced the dashboard and other graphical widget. The newly design time module selection also allows the word syntax for faster access to the metrics. Zabbix provides the mutiple modes like Kiosk mode & compact mode view to present the data in more efficient way. Zabbix 4.0 come with the new tag based permission which gives the flexibility to manage the access to user group. Zabbix community is increasing rapidly as it provides the complete open source enterprise level monitoring.

Cons

The only lack I find about Zabbix was documentation and lack of other online content, but after implementing it I find the official documentation is fair enough to implement as the pre-configure template are easy to deploy.

Omar
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  • Industry: Plastics
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Very good Tool to monitor almost everything everything in one place

Reviewed on 2019/07/17

Easy Installation

Implementation takes time.

Adapting it to your environment and customizing it...

Easy Installation

Implementation takes time.

Adapting it to your environment and customizing it also requires some time, but in the end, it's something that's going to help save you from checking device by device.

My experience has been very good, I have used many monitoring tools that have also been good but this is the one that has convinced me the most.

It requires time for implementation but it is understood that it is a free tool.

Pros

I implemented the appliance with Ubuntu and if you follow the manual the installation is simple.

A variety of monitoring resources can be added and triggers can be customized according to your needs.

The dashboard gives you a very wide view of all the computer resources and gives you the possibility to prioritize in a more efficient way.

You can create your own maps, review detailed graphs of resources, create macros and view the online information of all devices.

In general, it is a very useful tool.

Cons

It takes patience and time to adjust the triggers so that it only shows you the problems that really exist in the infrastructure but once you adapt it to your needs becomes an ally to be aware of the resources and be able to react in time.

When a problem arises with the tool, there aren't many forums and it requires you to invest time in finding the solution.

In almost a year and a half that I have using the tool I have only had the monitoring stopped for a few hours because the service stopped, I found the cause looking in the forums and I could solve the problem.

victor
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

overall information

Reviewed on 2022/03/14

I consider this platform to fulfill all business needs as this is open-source for commercial and...

I consider this platform to fulfill all business needs as this is open-source for commercial and noncommercial use. Based on it, we can personalize what we want to monitor, network, servers, clouds, etc, so far the software display all alerts if something is not working properly and also this platform has different templates to triggers the alerts you need.

Pros

the way how we can customize the software according to the company needs if you feel confident, this platform has the option to create your templates such as macros, discovery rules, triggers, etc, in my point of view this software is pretty useful to monitor networks, workstation servers, etc. if something got wrong we can get the alert in real-time.

Cons

in my personal experience, we support a university that has around 180 access points, unfortunately, it was pretty hard to find a tutorial related to the IPsec tunnel and Zabbix connection.

Ivan
Ivan
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  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Scalability and easy to implement

Reviewed on 2018/07/10

The benefits are several from my point of view, you can download a free version and make the...

The benefits are several from my point of view, you can download a free version and make the configuration you need. For entrepreneurs and SMEs is a good option. If you want to monitor a very large network or several networks you can also do it, that is, it adapts to what your company needs.

Pros

installing and implementing zabbix is very easy, with a minimum of knowledge you can do it. We use zabbix to monitor cellular networks and servers, so far it has been very stable.

Cons

Its free version has very few users, this limited us considerably when making the configuration for the amount of equipment we want to use in test environment. In Venezuela it was very difficult to hire a representative for support.

Will
Will
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A useful tool for monitoring infrastructure if costs need to be kept to a minimum

Reviewed on 2018/01/22

Pros

Easy to install agent which can be installed on 100's of client servers. The zabbix agent has low memory usage, so it can be installed on low spec web servers. The ability to create custom metrics and setup different triggers and notifications is great.

Cons

Ease of use isn't great and it takes a long period of adoption to get your head around how items, triggers and notifications work. The error messages you receive aren't particularly user friendly and are more suited to developers rather than operations teams. Housekeeping doesn't stop us ending up with huge database tables in Zabbix.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great for free and extremely powerful

Reviewed on 2017/07/17

So to start off, it's tricky to complete the initial setup.
Once setup, great for cloud monitoring...

So to start off, it's tricky to complete the initial setup.
Once setup, great for cloud monitoring and data logging. There's 100s of pre-built sets of monitoring for linux and windows.
We use this to monitor 100+ individual SQL instances and 8+ Windows cloud servers.

Pros

Very powerfull once configured
Lovely php based gui
Almost infinate amounts of host templates to import
User based views, also via LDAP
Alerts
Network maps
Graphs (for the managers)

Cons

Tricky to perform initial installation
Some templates may require 3rd party plugins from github

Raúl
Raúl
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  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Nice and quite entertaining to use

Reviewed on 2018/08/01

High monitoring system and prevent of dDOS atack

High monitoring system and prevent of dDOS atack

Pros

Pretty simple installation, initial configuration and deployment of monitoring agents quite fast and efficient

Cons

The large number of agents distributed in the elements to monitor, create a heavy load of TCP traffic in the network, which by its nature of SNORT makes conventional packets that travel through TCP also, have relevant delays

Cyrille
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Good product

Reviewed on 2022/09/24

Zabbix even allows me to monitor my business application

Zabbix even allows me to monitor my business application

Pros

Zabbix is free, easy to use with many templates

Cons

I don't see any negative points, Zabbix is complete

Adolf
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Zabbix guarantees and excellent operation on the network.

Reviewed on 2019/08/30

Zabbix allows me to configure your system so that I can control the faults that may arise and be...

Zabbix allows me to configure your system so that I can control the faults that may arise and be able to locate the place, time, in addition to the responsible device. This platform monitors any type of IT solution, such as servers, networks, databases, etc. The system has the property of offering continuous detailed reports of the state in which the network is located and of the huts that are considered opportune.

Pros

In addition to offering me the guarantee that the network works perfectly at all times, Zabbix can also count on its ability to track, control and monitor the transfer of data, as well as prevent and solve problems in the bandwidth. Another aspect that I like This system is that I can store data in Json format, which is very important for other applications to use.

Cons

I really like this platform, however I have to express that its implementation can be a bit complicated at the beginning for people with limited programming knowledge.

Ilay
Ilay
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

I use ZABBIX to monitor servers in a SaaS software environment

Reviewed on 2018/04/10

Pros

* Easy to retrieve data from external systems.
* Gathers all the data in one place
* Simple to use.

Cons

* Performance decrease on medium scale traffic.
* Configuring new environment is difficult.
* Screens design is old

Cody
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Superior Infrastructure Monitoring

Reviewed on 2018/10/26

Zabbix allows me to provide better service up-time and stay ahead of any encroaching issues through...

Zabbix allows me to provide better service up-time and stay ahead of any encroaching issues through my entire multi-cloud infrastructure.

Pros

Zabbix is very flexible and can support just about any monitoring scenario. I have been using it since version 1.8 and it has helped me be proactive in solving issues before they arise. It is the single most useful piece of software I use day in and day out.

Cons

The learning curve can be a bit steep for new users. Especially those lacking programming or linux skills. Grasping the concept of writing trigger expressions can take a while; but they are very flexible and powerful.

Matheus
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Zabbix Monitoring Experience

Reviewed on 2019/06/04

i've been using over the last 3 year to monitor web servers and internal services like apache, php...

i've been using over the last 3 year to monitor web servers and internal services like apache, php and server resources

Pros

Easy to understand!

Friendly user with great graphics and tools

Cons

Some features are quite hard to learn but reading the man u can do it! A bit of practice is needed