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What is Zabbix?

Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.

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What is Zabbix?

Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.

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What is Zabbix?

Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. The core program is free, with paid support from the vendor. It provides out-of-the-box templates from Zabbix and community developers. Zabbix includes network health measurements, including memory utilization, packet loss rate, and predictive trends in bandwidth usage and downtimes. These measurements can be adjusted using custom thresholds for network health and security issue alerts.


Zabbix also offers automation capabilities, including automatic network detection, configuration management, and report generation. It also enables remote and scripted remediation efforts when an issue is detected. The open-source format of the software is designed to support customization by users and the community.

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Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.4.

The most common users of Zabbix are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Review Of Zabbix - Worth The Effort Eventually

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 20, 2023
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Zabbix
3 years of experience
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.
  • Graphs of live network activity from switches and firewalls
  • Shows SNMP data from hardware server out of band SOCs
  • Complex alerting from hardware and lots of different kinds of OSs
Cons
  • User interface
  • Very steep learning curve
  • Documentation is extensive but it doesn't provide good examples of how to complete basic tasks
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.
  • Alerting
  • Showing usage trends
  • Good ROI when trying to get ahead of network related problems instead of waiting for users to complain
  • Good ROI when doing upgrades or exploratory work on a neglected network
  • Good ROI when showing usage trends to management showing higher actual usage versus what was thought to be happening
Zabbix has no financial cost, PRTG is very expensive but just as impressive capability wise.
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Alerting and monitoring of network activity in a non-security context mostly done by SNMP but it can talk to Windows and Linux hosts as well.
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A general system administrator can use Zabbix as long as they can dedicate the time for the initial setup. A junior help desk would be challenged with the setup of Zabbix. It would be a lot better if the developers made it more accessible to folks who don't necessarily have a coding back ground as there are features that require understanding of coding vocab - which is kinda normal for open source stuff.
  • Alerting
  • Monitoring
  • Displaying trends for usage
  • Has a nice feature where dashboards can be customized
  • I would like to see Zabbix being able to monitor clouds natively like O365 or AWS
No cost for Zabbix, only investment is time
No
  • Integration with Other Systems
We wanted something for monitoring that could reliably speak SNMP because most hardware does that by default
No change
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
  • I should not have used the demo appliance install
Block off an entire week for Zabbix
There are paid support options but we have not needed them. You get on the struggle bus and just power through whatever is not making sense.
No because it wasn't needed.
No
No sadly that has not happened.
If you go deeper than the dashboards, the user friendliness goes away quickly
  • Logging in
  • Logging out
  • Everything else
No
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