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LibreNMS vs Zabbix: What are the differences?

LibreNMS and Zabbix are two popular network monitoring and management systems that provide features for monitoring hosts, servers, devices, and services on a network. Here are the key differences between the two.

  1. Ease of Setup and Configuration: LibreNMS offers a more straightforward installation process with a user-friendly web interface, making it easier for users to set up and configure the system. On the other hand, Zabbix requires more technical expertise and knowledge to install and configure, and its web interface can be overwhelming for beginners.

  2. Flexibility and Customization: Zabbix provides more extensive customization options and flexibility in terms of creating customized monitoring templates, triggers, and actions. This allows users to tailor the monitoring system to their specific needs and requirements. LibreNMS, although not as flexible as Zabbix, still offers a decent level of customization options.

  3. Scalability: Zabbix is known for its scalability, making it suitable for large and complex environments with thousands of devices and hosts. It can handle a high volume of data and supports distributed monitoring setups. On the other hand, LibreNMS may struggle in larger environments, and its performance could be affected when dealing with a significant number of devices and hosts.

  4. Integration and Extensibility: Zabbix provides a wide range of integrations and APIs, allowing users to integrate it with other systems and extend its functionalities. It supports various third-party plugins and offers a RESTful API for easy integration. Although LibreNMS also supports integration with other systems, its list of integrations and APIs is not as extensive as Zabbix.

  5. User Interface and Visualization: Zabbix offers a more comprehensive and visually appealing user interface with advanced graphing and visualization capabilities. It provides intuitive dashboards and real-time monitoring screens, making it easier for users to interpret and analyze data. In comparison, LibreNMS has a simpler and less visually appealing interface, although still functional for day-to-day monitoring tasks.

  6. Community and Support: LibreNMS has a strong and active community of users and developers, providing excellent support through forums, documentation, and community-driven development. Zabbix also has a vibrant community but is more enterprise-focused, offering commercial support options alongside its community support.

In summary, LibreNMS offers easier setup and configuration, while Zabbix provides more flexibility, scalability, and customization options. Zabbix also has a more advanced user interface and better support for large-scale environments.

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My team is divided on using Centreon or Zabbix for enterprise monitoring and alert automation. Can someone let us know which one is better? There is one more tool called Datadog that we are using for cloud assets. Of course, Datadog presents us with huge bills. So we want to have a comparative study. Suggestions and advice are welcome. Thanks!

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Geoffrey Timmerman
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I work at Volvo Car Corporation as a consultant Project Manager. We have deployed Zabbix in all of our factories for factory monitoring because after thorough investigation we saw that Zabbix supports the wide variety of Operating Systems, hardware peripherals and devices a Car Manufacturer has.

No other tool had the same amount of support onboard for our production environment and we didn't want to end up using a different tool again for several areas. That is the major strong point about Zabbix and it's free of course. Another strong point is the documentation which is widely available; Zabbix Youtube channel with tutorial video's, Zabbix share which holds free templates, the Zabbix online documentation and the Zabbix forum also helped us out quite a bit. Deployment is quite easy since it uses templates, so almost all configuration can be done on server side.

To conclude, we are really pleased with the tool so far, it helped us detect several causes of issues that were a pain to solve in the past.

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Centreon is part of the Nagios ecosystem, meaning there is a huge number of resources you may find around in the community (plugins, skills, addons). Zabbix monitoring paradigms are totally different from Centreon. Centreon plugins have some kind of intelligence when they are launched, where Zabbix monitoring rules are configured centrally with the raw data collected. Testing both will help you understand :) Users used to say Centreon may be faster for setup and deployment. And in the end, both are full of monitoring features. Centreon has out of the box a full catalog of probes from cloud to the edge https://www.centreon.com/en/plugins-pack-list/ As soon as you have defined your monitoring policies and template, you can deploy it fast through command line API or REST API. Centreon plays well in the ITSM, Automation, AIOps spaces with many connectors for Prometheus, ServiceNow, GLPI, Ansible, Chef, Splunk, ... The polling server mode is one of the differentiators with Centreon. You set up remote server(s) and chose btw multiple information-exchange mechanisms. Powerful and resilient for remote, VPN, DMZ, satellite networks. Centreon is a good value for price to do a data collection (availability, performance, fault) on a wide range of technologies (physical, legacy, cloud). There are pro support and enterprise version with dashboards and reporting. IT Central Station gathers many user feedback you can rely on both Centreon & Zabbix https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/centreon-reviews  

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at Muutech Monitoring Solutions, S.L. · | 3 upvotes · 280.1K views
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We highly recommend Zabbix. We have used it to build our own monitoring product (available on cloud -like datadog- or on premise with support) because of its flexibility and extendability. It can be easily integrated with the powerful dashboarding and data aggregation of Grafana, so it is perfect. All configuration is done via web and templates, so it scales well and can be distributed via proxies. I think there also more companies providing consultancy in Zabbix (like ours) than Centreon and community is much wider. Also Zabbix roadmap and focus (compatibility with Elasticsearch, Prometheus, TimescaleDB) is really really good.

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Hi Vivek, what's your stack? If huge monitoring bills are your concern and if you’re using a number of JVM languages, or mostly Scala / Akka, and would like “one tool to monitor them all”, Kamon might be the friendliest choice to go for.

Kamon APM’s major benefit is it comes with a built-in dashboard for the most important metrics to monitor, taking the pain of figuring out what to monitor and building your own dashboards for weeks out of the monitoring.

https://kamon.io/apm/

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Pros of LibreNMS
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      Free
    • 9
      Alerts
    • 5
      Service/node/network discovery
    • 5
      Templates
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      Base metrics from the box
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      Multi-dashboards
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      SMS/Email/Messenger alerts
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      Grafana plugin available
    • 2
      Supports Graphs ans screens
    • 2
      Support proxies (for monitoring remote branches)
    • 1
      Perform website checking (response time, loading, ...)
    • 1
      API available for creating own apps
    • 1
      Templates free available (Zabbix Share)
    • 1
      Works with multiple databases
    • 1
      Advanced integrations
    • 1
      Supports multiple protocols/agents
    • 1
      Complete Logs Report
    • 1
      Open source
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      Supports large variety of Operating Systems
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      Supports JMX (Java, Tomcat, Jboss, ...)

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        The UI is in PHP
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        Puppet module is sluggish

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      What is LibreNMS?

      It is an auto-discovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and many more.

      What is Zabbix?

      Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.

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