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OpenTelemetry vs Zabbix: What are the differences?

OpenTelemetry: A single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. It provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools; Zabbix: Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources. Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.

OpenTelemetry and Zabbix belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.

Zabbix is an open source tool with 1.14K GitHub stars and 387 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Zabbix's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of OpenTelemetry
Pros of Zabbix
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    • 18
      Free
    • 9
      Alerts
    • 5
      Service/node/network discovery
    • 4
      Templates
    • 4
      Base metrics from the box
    • 3
      Multi-dashboards
    • 3
      SMS/Email/Messenger alerts
    • 2
      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
    • 1
      Supports large variety of Operating Systems
    • 1
      Supports JMX (Java, Tomcat, Jboss, ...)

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    Cons of OpenTelemetry
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      • 5
        The UI is in PHP
      • 2
        Puppet module is sluggish

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      What is OpenTelemetry?

      It provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

      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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      What are some alternatives to OpenTelemetry and Zabbix?
      Kibana
      Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
      Grafana
      Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
      Prometheus
      Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
      Nagios
      Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.
      Graphite
      Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand
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