TrustRadius Insights for Zabbix are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Recommendations
Users of Zabbix have made several recommendations based on their experiences with the open-source monitoring tool.
Many reviewers suggest setting up a separate virtual server for Zabbix to facilitate an easy installation and configuration process. This approach allows for better manageability and flexibility in integrating Zabbix into existing infrastructure.
Zabbix is highly recommended for its ability to provide customizable alerts and monitoring capabilities. Users appreciate the flexibility to tailor notifications according to their specific requirements, allowing them to stay informed about critical events and issues.
Several users recommend Zabbix specifically for network performance monitoring. They find it suitable for large-scale environments, making it an ideal choice for big companies that need to monitor metrics across tens of thousands of devices.
While many users find Zabbix to be a valuable monitoring tool, some have also noted a few considerations. It has been mentioned by some reviewers that Zabbix may not be very intuitive and can be challenging to set up initially. To overcome this hurdle, users advise seeking support from the Zabbix IRC channel or having a Linux administrator assist with the server setup.
A few users have observed that Zabbix can be resource hungry compared to other monitoring solutions like Nagios. They mention that tuning and optimizing Zabbix may require additional effort to achieve optimal performance.
Overall, reviewers recommend conducting due diligence and planning ahead before implementing Zabbix. While it may require some initial investment in terms of time and resources, users find that Zabbix offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities and steadily improves its user interface over time. For smaller businesses or those utilizing virtual machines, reviewers suggest giving Zabbix a try as it can be deployed effectively in such environments.
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.
Pros
Zabbix can collect metrics from various sources. We have diffrent vendors firewall, router & switches and till now we did not face any issues while monitoring these devices.
It's very easy to deploy and moreover the monitoring dashboard is pretty simple to use and customize. We have customized the dashboard to highlight the core connectivity only and it helps us to monitor more efficiently.
The alerting system is my favorite part to be honest. We don't have to sit all day in front of the screen to monitor the networks. We get notifications through SMS which helps all of our team members to get aligned when anything goes down.
The widgets are highly customizable which helps us to monitor the important lines
Cons
Zabbix is a great tool and highly customizable, but the issue is most of the customization has to be done by the administrator which is not preferrable by all. I myself was not much happy with all the manual things at the beginning but gradually i liked it.
I have no complain about the dashboard but compared to the modern NMS, Zabbix feels bit backdated. I would suggest improving the dashboard UI as well.
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.
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.
Pros
ICMP monitor
Disk health monitoring
Interfaces monitoring
Cons
WhatsApp integrations
Trigger customisation
User interface
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.
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Engineer in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 11-50 employees)
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
Pros
Alerts when a device or link is down
Can monitor the usage and utilization of bandwidth and resources
Checks and alerts for IOS updates
Cons
It can more features like Netflow
Should have the ability to access and do minimal changes on the network devices from within this Zabbix
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
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Team Lead in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 501-1000 employees)
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.
Pros
Server health checks.
Websites monitoring.
Windows services.
Cons
Zabbix must include the Amazon RDS.
UI/UX needs to be more catchy and detailed.
Zabbix must provide more templates for rich monitoring.
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.
Zabbix is a simple to setup and easy to manage solution. Very little in-depth tech skills needed to deploy initially due to pre-made ISOs and virtual machines, and with the help of a raft of templates available for free online to make it an essential monitoring tool for any business. Support is available if you want it - although from my perspective it looked to be costly if you simply want light email only assistance on your setup.
Pros
Keeping an eye on our asset estate via SNMP is easy
Single Pane view
Wealth of plugins available to then customise for alerting
Cons
User interface is a little cumbersome, but it looks like newer versions are looking to resolve the menu system issues i found
If you really delve in, you should be ready for some coding and tweaking
Likelihood to Recommend
This is our core monitoring platform, used to monitor all servers and perimeters for any issues in the network. We utilize it to alert the team on any low disks, failed devices or loss of ping to certain aspects of the network. It also monitors flow and other metrics via SNMP with a single pane view for easy management.
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Verified User
Manager in Customer Service (Architecture & Planning company, 51-200 employees)
The company was using a very old version of Nagios at the time. I created a pro/con list for my manager on which monitoring application to switch to. Zabbix ended up being the winner based on features. It is specifically used to monitor EMR servers to ensure they are readily available for Office use at all times. We also used the software to notify support staff if there is an issue. The on-call person will receive the alarm and solve it as needed.
Pros
Nice graphing for non-technical personnel
Good monitoring system
Versatile for custom scripts
Nice options for notification if problems arise
Cons
There was a bit of a learning curve for creating custom scripts, if my script returns a 1 or 0, Zabbix should accept it no matter what and be able to work with it for an alarm
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it will work well in just about any environment where monitoring is necessary
Zabbix is currently in place monitoring servers and network hardware across the entire organization. We're using it to monitor service availability as well and have made attempts to use it for hardware monitoring as well, but the SNMP Trap support is lacking at best and very clunky to implement.
Pros
Service Availability Monitoring.
Disk Space Monitoring.
Host Availability Monitoring.
Cons
SNMP Traps.
Better documentation, detailed documentation seems to get lost/shuffled between versions.
Initial Usability (There's a pretty steep learning curve).
Likelihood to Recommend
I've had great experiences in small to medium business where I've managed Zabbix to monitor all of our hosts/services, however in a larger environment it seemed that other parties involved felt that there were better more scalable solutions when it came to monitoring 50,000+ servers. Given my previous experience with Zabbix in smaller environments I think it could be done, but it would require a pretty significant time and money investment to get it going at the larger scale and there were other solutions that required less of an investment at this scale.
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Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 10,001+ employees)