Zabbix Reviews

Zabbix serves as my eyes and ears for everything. I have Zabbix agents on all my nodes, everywhere, including databases. I effectively monitor my network, my machines, the status of my machines, and disk usage. It's a complete network and resource monitoring solution.

The resource usage, CPU utilization, disk usage, network monitoring, network performance, and alerting features are invaluable. These features provide a proactive way of ensuring that nothing goes down. 

For example, if disk usage surpasses a threshold, say 70%, I receive alerts and can take proactive action. This helps me avoid any shutdowns.

Our company is a financial organization and we use the solution to check connectivity, CPU utilization, and hard disk utilization for all of our servers. We monitor networks to learn traffic conditions. We use threshold features to compare servers or routers and find each server's size before it reaches 100%. 

The solution is currently installed in our IT division. We have 6,000 employees, 50 divisions, and 500 servers. The solution monitors all firewalls including HCI, Check Point, Palo Alto, Cisco, and VMware. 

The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems. There are many options for any type of customization such as for servers, health checks, and traffic conditions. 

We use it in a traditional way. We replaced an older system based on Nagios, and we had problems with false positives. We install the Zabbix agent on the client hosts and set up automatic installs. The agent is added to these other client hosts, and we have the infrastructure in place to support static servers. 

Then we write the rules to tell Zabbix how we want it to report, and then let it run. If we've got a critical error, someone will be notified. Otherwise, we get an email message that a server is having a problem. 

Sometimes, the problems resolve themselves, and sometimes, they don't, and we have to take action. But it's mostly hands-off for the most part. It's doing very well for that.

It has improved our overall server performance monitoring. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can identify if there's spiking. We can see what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's malfunctioning and needs to be fixed. As we get better at diagnosis, we can go back and look at the history of the systems to pinpoint problems.

Many of my customers want to replace enterprise products from Micro Focus, IBM, Computer Associates, eMT, etc., with Zabbix. They don't want to pay a high price for many modules and pieces of software, so they switch to an open-source product. 

I work for a software development company that produces a product, but it's not like Zabbix. We make an umbrella people-management solution, but we also integrate Zabbix. We typically offer customers a people management and business intelligence solution integrated with Zabbix for monitoring. We tell them Zabbix can meet all their monitoring needs, including servers, websites, applications, networks, etc. 

I like the Zabbix Interface. There are links to every menu. You can choose a node and right-click to pick a suite or go to alarms, support, graphs, etc. The software and server monitoring are excellent. The reporting has also improved considerably compared to the older version. 

Our customers also like that they don't have to use multiple modules. Micro Focus and major vendors typically require you to buy several modules and plugins. Our customers do not like that. We offer them a single product for all their monitoring needs. 

I use the solution to provide a perfect environment for remote connectivity with my clients. Many tools that I require for system maintenance are included. I can easily monitor all of my clients throughout the world.

I did not give much thought to it, however, improvements could be made to Zabbix. I cannot think of specific improvements that it should make.

I've designed and built a high-available solution with Zabbix version 5. I introduced and deployed Zabbix in my current company, and it ended up becoming a production service within the company.

I like being able to use proxy servers for different locations. The agents are pretty cool. They're easy to roll out. 

The standard out-of-the-box templates are also pretty easy to use. The integration with other learning products is also good. I have, in the past, used Slack, but we've integrated it with Microsoft Teams. We also use it for SMS with a service called Redcoat. It is very flexible.

It does what I need it to do, and my manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything. We are nearing 4,000 hosts inside Zabbix, and we've got another 6,000 access points to add to it. We've thrown everything at it, and it has managed to keep going. I am very impressed with the tool, and I'd shake their hand very hard if I got to say the compliments to the Zabbix team. They keep improving it and doing refreshes, which is one good thing about it. There is also online information as well as books that you can purchase if you're willing to read enough. There is a lot to pick up, but it is a pretty complete solution.

We integrate Zabbix with other products. We configure it on servers to communicate with tools like SolarWinds and send Syslog data to Zabbix for notifications.

We have many monitoring platforms for Linux and Windows. We also monitor network devices.

We use it to check services for operations support and NOC [Network Operations Center] in banking. When a service is down, we use scripts to automatically start it on the server.

We add many hosts and network devices to Zabbix and integrate it with Grafana. Grafana connects to the Zabbix database and sends out the notifications. This is how the alerting and notification system in Zabbix improves the response time to incidents.

Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements.

We [my company] used it to monitor our application, our system, our network, and so on. Databases and so on.

The best feature is that Zabbix can report everything, and everything in Zabbix is free.

Everything in Zabbix is free. It can report on everything. Any component, and it’s free.