Zabbix Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zabbix as a monitoring tool for our entire infrastructure. We monitor network appliances, servers, firewalls, Internet lines, and bandwidth. We also use it to draw maps of the network connect interfaces and monitor these endpoints in case of a failed link or hardware failure. Before Zabbix, we were wasting a lot of time logging into each device and checking the network status, but after Zabbix, we now have one dashboard to monitor all traffic and appliances.

Likelihood to Recommend

Zabbix is great for monitoring your servers and seeing alerts when the system uses too much CPU or memory. This allowed the system Engineer to be proactive and add resources to these systems to avoid interrupting the services. Especially servers running operations applications and services. This is one of the best usages for Zabbix.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started to feel the need of a network monitoring tool few years back when one of our secondary core network connectivity with a partner got down somehow and we had no visibility over it until the next routine network check which was 24hours later! Secondary lines are our first line of defense if the primary one goes down, so we were at a great risk but as had no idea at all! so after going through some of the renowned monitoring tool we decided to go with Zabbix as it seemed well equipped with the features that we were looking for. Since then we are using Zabbix along with some other NMS to monitor our connectivity with most our valuable of partners. Zabbix is quite easy to deploy and manage and helps us tom easily identify if anything goes down or offline.

Likelihood to Recommend

Zabbix is well suited in SMB to enterprise grade environment, i think. It is also a great tool for those network admin who wants their NMS to be highly customizable as it supports various triggers, thresholds, and dependencies, which helps alerting and on time notifications for different teams. I would also suggest it to the system administrator for monitoring crucial server and systems.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We work for a non-profit organization with around 1500 devices spread over several locations. Zabbix is monitoring a lot of these devices. It can check for hardware, ping, status, and other things. Zabbix also sends notifications via emails, sms, Telegram, and more. It can also run scripts. It gives us eyes when we don't have our people.

Likelihood to Recommend

Because we spread out in different locations, we can't always know the status of our devices. Zabbix solves this issue for us. As soon as we see an alert that the remote site is down, we can solve it right away. I can't think of a scenario where it was less appropriate for us.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Zabbix to monitor server , ICMP, Hardware and interfaces. The Zabbix version 6.4 gives the accurate information and alerts.and we are using smartmontool to monitor disk bad sectors. The configuration part is smartmontool and smart Zabbix agent 2 for windows and Linux is good and easy to send notification on telegram.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are using Zabbix on our organisation to monitor our infrastructure to make sure uptime according to our SLA. there are multiple Zabbix dashboard to monitor our infrastructure. These are helping us to monitor well . If any outage detected our concern team take action and mitigate the same . I strongly recommend Zabbix.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to monitor the network devices of various customers.

It immediately alerts when there is a link down, device down, high resource utilization etc.

It helps me keep the network up and running 24x7

Likelihood to Recommend

Since this is an open source tool, it immensely helps startups who have no budget for monitoring tools.

It's easy install and manage.

Monitor your network 24x7 for free

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zabbix to monitor pretty much everything plugged into our corporate network. This includes the basics like firewalls and switches and server hosts to the weird stuff like phone system PBXs and time clocks. Zabbix does have a steep learning curve and I had to watch a bunch of YT videos to understand how it wants to be setup. Since its open source, it likes to assume that everybody using Zabbix is going to have the same kind of skills as the developers, which is what holds back Zabbix from a bigger user base. It is very powerful software and can display enormous amounts of USEFUL information but its all hidden behind a user interface that is not as user friendly as it could be. I spent a good 40 hours doing the setup and configuration of Zabbix when I started at my current employer. The dashboards showing live firewall and switch activity blew away my boss and he said this was a game changer. The next question was could he tinker with it and add in more stuff to be watched. I said yes sure but have you got 10 hours for me to show the basics? My review of Zabbix is that it is fantastic software, if you have the time to dedicate to the setup.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for large complex networks where using something like PRTG may be too expensive. Not all worth the effort for small networks or small organizations with a lot of cloud activity.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<div>We use Zabbix in our company for the control and monitoring of each of the Gigabit Ethernet interfaces of the transport network, based on the premise that our network is a ring topology, we have distributed probes at strategic points that allow us to collect real and timely data on the status and behavior of each interface, On the other hand and not less important it facilitates the verification and monitoring of the BGP sessions with our international provider, a fundamental aspect since it depends on them that we can offer the service to our customers, we use it only in our department and with zabbix we can perform routine tasks such as backup, alarms and automatic monitoring quickly and effectively.</div><div>

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Likelihood to Recommend

<div>Zabbix is ideal for companies of any size, thanks to its flexibility and scalability, it is also very adaptable to different environments, it is very suitable for monitoring the availability and performance of industrial equipment, services and network hardware simultaneously and in real time, to control the resources available on the network, to centralize heterogeneous networks among others, it also facilitates its modification and design to be fully open source.</div><div>

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We monitor Virtual network functions (VNFs) alarms &amp; performance graphs on Zabbix. It is basically an FM &amp; PM system that collects data from all the nodes &amp; aggregates them in the form of user-readable graphs &amp; XL sheets. It is also used to set performance-based alerts in the system &amp; it can also be used as an aggregator for a big NMS type system like Nokia's NetAct.

Likelihood to Recommend

Zabbix is very well suited for infrastructure monitoring i.e. the underlying host servers, basically, compute nodes. However, it has limited FM &amp; PM capabilities for the workloads, i.e., the virtual machines (VMs). Zabbix has an easy-to-use GUI which can be explored easily &amp; provides good filtering of the data.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Zabbix is the complete monitoring tool that can monitor any type of environment, We are monitoring Amazon-hosted EC2 instances and also Azure Virtual machines. Zabbix is very active in communicating with its agents. This tool is open-source and can be deployed on any Windows/Linux-based machine. We are monitoring more than 200 servers including the websites and windows services.

Likelihood to Recommend

Zabbix is very well suited in monitoring health checks of servers and websites but Zabbix needs to add more health checks for other Amazon services including RDS. Zabbix provides complete support for creating custom templates but Zabbix must need to add pre-built templates. This tool is open-source so anyone can use this tool.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using Zabbix for almost 4 years now to monitor some specific servers and applications in our South America (+Portugal) sites.

It is configured to run discovers on our vCenter to grab any new VM and to start monitoring its CPU, Mem, Disk usage, etc. For specific applications, those more critical to the business, we create templates to monitor the services.

We have also created some tests using CURL to authenticate to applications and measure the end-user experience, so we can generate alerts when an important application is taking more time than it was supposed to authenticate.

It also has a great 'SLA' dashboard, where you can see the amount of time that an specific application was out-of-service during a period of time. We use it to provide some evidences to the business. Those applications can be constituted by multiple servers, services, databases, etc... It is very flexible on this level.

Likelihood to Recommend

From my stand point, [Zabbix is] very well suited for small and medium enterprises. The main benefit it is also it's worst quality: It is free / open source.

You don't have costs to implement and to use it, but in the other hand you don't have a professional support or SLAs to rely on. In case you base your monitoring of critical systems on Zabbix and it has an issue, you need to appeal to the community and it can take a long time to have an answer or have your issue fixed.

For these reasons I think it cant be the foundation of a monitoring process on large enterprises, but you can use it as a complement to have more flexibility.