Zabbix Reviews

Pros

Easy deployment, good documentation, good user interface and great features.

Cons

Some configurations might be difficult if you don’t read a lot of documentation.

Alternatives Considered

Nagios Network Analyzer

Pros

We use Zabbix to monitor all VM on our network. The most useful feature is the ability to configure the notifications (disk/cpu usage, server restarts and availability) to use Telegram, which mean we are notified almost immediately after the event. Group notifications work faultlessly. The user Zabbix forum and Telegram/Discord channels provide a great support from other Zabbix users. We found answers to all our questions.

Cons

There is a slightly steep curve in sense of understanding the templates and triggers, but once this is understood, adding more network devices is a matter of minutes.

Alternatives Considered

Grafana

Reasons for Switching to Zabbix

After a consideration, we chose Zabbix over Grafana because of the ongoing support, knowledge base and cost.

Pros

Very good at tracking server inventory and offers a comprehensive alerting platform for any number of different scenarios.

Cons

Confusing and hard to set up. Training is a necessity in my opinion if you are going to get the best from this product

Pros

Rich in features, a lot of possible Intergrations, out of box templates and multi-tenancy support, powerful API, supports most monitoring protocols for networks, servers, services, applications and IoT. Can monitor pretty much everything using standard protocols of custom scripts.

Cons

Initial setup requires a lot of work and a lot of optimization is needed in the long run. The documentation isn't so clear for first timers, especially when common issues arise during installation or post installation administration.

Alternatives Considered

Network Performance Monitor, Checkmk, OpenNMS, PRTG, Icinga, WhatsUp Gold and Nagios Core

Reasons for Switching to Zabbix

Zabbix is more flexible, free and open source, customizable, stable, powerful templates, multi-tenancy support, flexible, powerful auto discovery of devices, applications, services and items (LLD), extensive media support for alerting, granularity of user roles, automatic actions, supports external scripts, powerful API for integration, frequently updated and has a clear and open roadmap.

Pros

- Easy installation on both linux operating systems
- It has many templates for integration with networking systems
- Complete infrastructure and web services tool
- Very easy to modify according to the need of the company

Cons

- Delay in integrating with new services, such as the Slack tool and cloud services such as AWS
- Difficult procedure to backup all configurations
- Difficult process to migrate from one version to another
- Does not have multiple MFA authentication

Alternatives Considered

Pandora FMS and PRTG

Reasons for Choosing Zabbix

Because Nagios is too odd for configuration services and hardware, often requires more knowledge to maintain the service.

Switched From

Nagios Core

Reasons for Switching to Zabbix

Because is open source and you only pay support.

Pros

In order to guarantee your infrastructure's seamless operation and avoid downtime, monitoring is crucial. You can monitor crucial metrics like server performance, network traffic, and application health with tools like Zabbix and get alerts when something is off. You can do this to find problems early on and fix them before they become serious.

Cons

I did not get any cons but i think but setting it up and optimising it can take some time and a thorough grasp of the system.

Pros

Zabbix is a great tool for make monitoring on your infraestructure. You can get alerts based on hour, diferent metrics, a sum of problems like @high cpu usage on four servers" at the same time. This help us to get stats and make changes.

Cons

It's hard to understand the main concepts. There is no work on news systems like Kubernetes and autoscalation.

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.

Pros

Zabbix is the one-stop software tool for monitoring the complete infrastructure. The end-to-end security and distributed monitoring help to track and audit the remote data centers. Zabbix proxies server help in isolating the network and speeding up the response from node. Best thing I like in Zabbix is that the agents never get out of dated as New Zabbix version always supports its previous agent version. Zabbix 4.X also support the IPv4 or IPv6 or mix internet protocol for addressing.

Cons

The problem detection and metric collection display should be configurable for each user view. The configuration for event correlation need to trigger points and it should come with the test feature button to check the functionality.

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.

Pros

Zabbix hepls in network monitoring, server monitoring, and many more. It helps a lot in server monitoring by giving configure alerts on time. It shows servers stats in many forms like graph, chart and e-mail alerts. It is also very cost-effective.

Cons

zabbix documentation is very challenging. Sometimes i will find the Zabbix documentation difficult to navigate or understand, especially for advanced use cases. I suggest to improve a liitle bit to understand.

Pros

I have been using this tool for quite sometime now for managing servers, monitoring their performance and applications as well. Their graphical representation and configuration are very good.

Cons

The outputs displayed can be made more user friendly and multi tab facilities can be introduced.

Alternatives Considered

Splunk On-Call and Amazon CloudWatch

Switched From

Grafana

Pros

The educational material provided for IT professionals to learn how to work with the tool is excellent. The number of functions that the tool provides in IT service provider environments is wide. And the amount of integrations is huge.

Cons

The learning curve for being a network administrator using Zabbix is not low. Network administration is not an easy task and the Zabbix tool does not make the task any easier.

Pros

Zabbix provide the enterprise level monitor. Network monitoring is every effective as it let us know the each packet loss rate and interface error rate with this it's each to check the network health and also monitor any changes in network like hardware removed or connected. Server Monitoring have feature to monitor the host and help in administration. It also provide the number of templates to monitor the all poplar Operating System. A large Zabbix community is also a plus point of it. Application monitoring is the best of zabbix as it have number of in-build template to monitor the Applications.

Cons

Most complex part of in it is implementation and configuration for dashboard. Learning curves are sharp as it have limited engineer that work on it. The master node can be setup only on Linux OS.

Pros

Zabbix is one of the most popular application for server monitoring. The most strong and interesting part of this application is the monitoring dashboard in which you can see the problem and when it resolves it will update. This makes your monitoring more easy and convenient.

Cons

Overall this is very good application but the least part is when problem get solve it will update the status after 10 to 15 minutes.

Pros

With Zabbix, you can monitor and automate just about anything. Highly, HIGHLY configurable and scalable. It can monitor processes within a machine, connectivity between machines, performance, availability, SLA compliance, and so on using TCP/IP, SNMP, IPMI, JMX. It's actively developed Free software with a large community, so you can expect frequent updates and new features. The server is Linux based but there are monitoring agents for all the major OSes.

Cons

Zabbix takes some time to learn the framework. There are several parts to construct just one monitor-trigger-action item. Pre-built templates make it easier to begin and provide some examples to study, but this is not a plug-n-play application. More like a box of Legos. Not that I like this aspect least, but mention it as fair warning for those prospecting for a monitoring solution.

Pros

It's a reliable tool for analyzing and monitoring our organization network performance.It's simple to identify and mitigate network performance issues with Zabbix.It's simple to receive instant notifications and alerts when issues network performance issues arises.

Cons

I haven't experienced any downside with Zabbix as it suits best all my needs.

Pros

If you want to monitor your network with a free available product then this one is easy one to go with.

You can monitor your firewall, switches, load balancers, UCS servers, VMware servers and other snmp based devices using there respective templates.

Cons

If you don't know Linux, you will face a hard time while installation, but there are many youtube videos which will assist step by step installation.

Alternatives Considered

PRTG

Reasons for Choosing Zabbix

Zabbix is free.

Switched From

PRTG

Reasons for Switching to Zabbix

Zabbix is free.

Pros

The administrator interface has helped me a lot when evaluating, identifying and solving problems in my servers

The great versatility that it has when scanning devices the way in which it presents the logs, in turn as it can obviate recurring errors presented in the Dashboard

Cons

At the time of the installation of the database with postgresql there are some user errors, it may be that the installer does not create the permissions for the user set by us at the time of installation.

It is not very friendly for people who are not experienced in Linux because it is a bit complex the optimal implementation of this application

Pros

I like the small footprint and robust monitoring. It is nice to have a vanguard monitoring the system 24/7.

Cons

Some of the thresholds can be tricky to set up. I have been monitored that something is out of space and then a minute later get notified that it is ok. Not even long enough to truly check. Could be how we have it setup mind you.

Pros

Zabbix is easy to configure and deploy.

Cons

Zabbix need to provide more training videos and documentations

Pros

Free and FOSS keeps the cost down, so that's good. It can monitor so many things - servers, switched, sensors. Alerts can be configured to be sent to the right personnel and at the right times. Worth the effort to get it setup.

Cons

The effort to get it setup can be a bit much, depending on the devices that you need to monitor. For example, IPMI can be a challenge.

Pros

It's a very important tool when I've many server running in our infraestructure.

Cons

That needs a deep kwnoledge to setup that.

Pros

Deployment is simple enough in non-virtualized environments and the deployment can scale well with very typical server hardware, with no special requirements.

Cons

Zabbix in-built visualization is at times relatively limited, but Zabbix can easily be connected to other tools for way better visualization.

Pros

Creating Dashboard in the main page, monitoring your critical networking devices, and easy implementation of the software makes this a best freeware network monitoring tool

Cons

As Zabbix is a free tool, you don't have instant customer support for your software, so if you are stuck with the application at any point, you need to update the community blogs and there you can get some help.