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MonitoringWhat is Zabbix?
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
Zabbix is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Smart, Highly Automated Metric CollectionAdvanced Problem DetectionIntelligent Alerting and Remediation
Zabbix Pros & Cons
Pros of Zabbix
- ✓Free
- ✓Alerts
- ✓Service/node/network discovery
- ✓Templates
- ✓Base metrics from the box
- ✓Multi-dashboards
- ✓SMS/Email/Messenger alerts
- ✓Grafana plugin available
- ✓Support proxies (for monitoring remote branches)
- ✓Supports Graphs ans screens
Cons of Zabbix
- ✗The UI is in PHP
- ✗Puppet module is sluggish
Zabbix Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to 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.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
