Zabbix
Toby
Jun 27, 2022
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CommentsWhat 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.
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.
