Zabbix Reviews

• Multi-level infrastructure maps. You can set up highly customizable maps of your infrastructure, including each component status, maps which can contain submaps, and if something’s wrong at the submap level - the submap will be shown with problems.
• Agent and agentless monitoring. Installing an agent is the easiest way, but SSH, SNMP, Impi, custom scripting and other protocols are supported.
• Templates. There are a broad set of templates that define monitoring items for common OS and applications, you can build your own or use one developed by the community.
• An API for you to create, modify, and delete most things programmatically, including items, triggers, charts, etc.

As we know how are systems are supposed to work, Zabbix has given us the flexibility of building our checks without relying on special plugins. If some monitoring item is not provided already, building your own is very easy, and any scripting language will do. We’re able to pinpoint with accuracy where issues lie, and respond to them in a cost effective way, due to the nature of it being open source, with fairly decent documentation and optional commercial support.

The Java gateway for monitoring Java applications didn’t work for us. Our JMX Service URL’s are somewhat complex, but we were able to write our own JMX checks.

Three years.

When your checks grow to a certain volume, you need to adjust some settings on the server related to cache sizes, preforked workers, and so on. This is expected as with any service that grows beyond its default settings, there’s documentation about it.

The system is as scalable as your database is. We applied partitioning on the biggest tables to keep the performant at 14 new values per second. You can setup a distributed architecture consisting of an N number of proxies capturing data and reporting to N master servers.

Fortunately, we’ve never needed it, because we have very talented engineers in our team and there’s plenty of documentation available online. There are also user forums which are helpful most of the time.

A fork of Nagios called Icinga, it’s pretty good, but something like the Zabbix Maps feature was a must have for us. We needed something very schematic and flexible to show the overall status of our systems.

It wasn’t complex, but we have very skilled engineers.

The quickest way to go is to have a turnkey virtual instance tailored to your needs by Zabbix, or use one of the freely available ones.

The product is open source with optional commercial support, which is recommended to reduce the learning curve, avoid pitfalls, and keep the project going.

SolarWinds. Nice product, but our particular project was more in line with the Linux, PostgreSQL, and the Open Source philosophy.

If you’re into the Open Source and freedom principles, don’t mind getting your hands dirty, and have the technical skills, Zabbix is a good choice. Commercial support is available if you don’t want to go at it alone, lack sufficient technical skills, and you need help to keep the project going.

Scalability, everything can be monitored.

Reporting is weak, if you want something better you must write your own SQL scripts/

3 years.

Sometimes.

Yes, web-page Zabbix server, database can be separate machine.

Never used the technical support.

Yes, previously used Cacti or Nagios but Zabbix has node communication.

Straightforward, if you understand basic things about databases or web services, it's easy.

All data is stored in the database. If you have more than 200 hosts you need a fast disk or good tuning of the OS/database.

SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable.

It is a very easy product. Its dashboards are good and interactive. There is very good information.

We are able to use the Zabbix API for integration. We could integrate System Center Operations Manager and Zabbix with APIs to create a new product or alerting system. 

The System Center Operations Manager can be improved. 

Cloud monitoring can be a bit easier, and the Zabbix dashboard can be developed a little bit more.

There could be integration with Ansible Tower or AWX CLI.

I have been using this solution for five years.

It is stable.

It is very easy to scale. Many customers use Zabbix. We have one Zabbix center with 10 customers. We have a Zabbix proxy and centralized monitoring.

We have never used their technical support.

Its deployment is easy. Virtual appliances are very easy, and Zabbix agents are supported across different platforms, such as Linux and Windows. I would rate it five out of five in terms of the ease of the setup.

It is a good product. It is easy to integrate and use. We are happy with it.

I would rate it a nine out of 10.

We use Zabbix for monitoring server network equipment. The solution is deployed on-premises.

We have 10 technical engineers using the solution.

Zabbix allows us to monitor a lot of hardware equipment without any additional cost.

Most of the out-of-the-box features are valuable.

It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages.

We have been using this solution for five months.

From time to time, there are agents failing, but it's not often. I think it's stable.

The solution is being used every day because it's a monitoring system.

For our company, it is not scalable.

Support is given through tickets, but I'm not directly in contact with Zabbix support.

I have previously used SolarWinds.

Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months.

Implementation was completed by our engineers.

We pay the subscription for support by year.

I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.

I can recommend Zabbix as a monitoring system.

We use this solution to monitor our network devices.

The performance and bandwidth are valuable features.

The performance reporting could be improved.

I have been using this solution for approximately two years.

The stability could be improved, there are some limitations.

We have 11 people using this solution in my organization. We have four engineers and six technicians that do the implementation and maintenance of the solution.

The technical support is good. However, the support could be more knowledgeable.

The installation is straightforward and it took approximately one hour.

We did the installation ourselves. However, I had to watch some video tutorials and view some PDF help files online to complete the installation.

There is a license required for this solution and we pay annually for our license.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Zabbix a seven out of ten.

Zabbix is very flexible and scalable.

The UI is hard to get used to.

2 years

We are using Zabbix for monitoring our servers and to display network traffic.

The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring.

When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it.

I have been using Zabbix for a year and a half.

This product is quite stable.

We have not had to contact technical support.

The initial setup is not complex. In fact, it's quite easy.

It was quite quick to deploy.

We have our own team who installed it and know how it is used.

This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.