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According to Wikipedia "Zabbix is enterprise open source monitoring software for networks and applications". Never heard of it before today.

snuxoll 10y ago
We've been using it in production for a year now to replace the various Nagios distributions we've used over the years, it works great and we love it :)
- reitanqild 10y ago
  We also use it. Replaces Zenoss in my toolbox. Much wider scope than Nagios (has reporting etc built in.) Unlike Zenoss it is real Open Source, - you get everything in the default download, the only thing you pay for is support etc (and while I haven't needed it yet I'll happily argue to pay for support the day we need it.)
- jle17 10y ago
  And it has a complete and documented API with bindings in everything and is supported by ansible. And it has a clear, well thought (IMHO) separation of concepts. On the downsides many beginners find the UI a bit confusing (although I'm told it's better in 3 but we still have to upgrade) and some things are a bit complex to do (such as downtimes on triggers instead of the whole host).
anchepiece 10y ago
Its a popular alternative to Nagios, Cacti, Solarwinds and other monitoring solutions.
chrisper 10y ago
Zabbix is great, but PRTG is better. However, PRTG is expensive and requires Windows Server.
- corobo 10y ago
  > Windows Server Doesn't that make it worse by default? hyuk hyuk. But seriously I've only ever really used Zabbix - Do you have any hints or tips on why PRTG is better? A quick glance would suggest they're pretty similar feature-wise
  - chrisper 10y ago
    Basically it discovers and creates all the sensors and everything automatically once you install it. It does a very good job. So the OOB experience is just better with PRTG (I am using the free edition with 100 sensor limit). I know Zabbix has auto discovery things, too, but PRTG is just better out of the box. However, because it requires Windows (bleh) I will be going back to Zabbix.
toomuchtodo 10y ago
We used it several years ago at FNAL CMS Tier-1 for monitoring ~5K physical compute workers, as well as a handful of persistent servers; works very well.

snuxoll 10y ago

We've been using it in production for a year now to replace the various Nagios distributions we've used over the years, it works great and we love it :)

reitanqild 10y ago
We also use it. Replaces Zenoss in my toolbox. Much wider scope than Nagios (has reporting etc built in.) Unlike Zenoss it is real Open Source, - you get everything in the default download, the only thing you pay for is support etc (and while I haven't needed it yet I'll happily argue to pay for support the day we need it.)
jle17 10y ago
And it has a complete and documented API with bindings in everything and is supported by ansible. And it has a clear, well thought (IMHO) separation of concepts. On the downsides many beginners find the UI a bit confusing (although I'm told it's better in 3 but we still have to upgrade) and some things are a bit complex to do (such as downtimes on triggers instead of the whole host).

anchepiece 10y ago

Its a popular alternative to Nagios, Cacti, Solarwinds and other monitoring solutions.

chrisper 10y ago

Zabbix is great, but PRTG is better. However, PRTG is expensive and requires Windows Server.

corobo 10y ago
> Windows Server Doesn't that make it worse by default? hyuk hyuk. But seriously I've only ever really used Zabbix - Do you have any hints or tips on why PRTG is better? A quick glance would suggest they're pretty similar feature-wise
- chrisper 10y ago
  Basically it discovers and creates all the sensors and everything automatically once you install it. It does a very good job. So the OOB experience is just better with PRTG (I am using the free edition with 100 sensor limit). I know Zabbix has auto discovery things, too, but PRTG is just better out of the box. However, because it requires Windows (bleh) I will be going back to Zabbix.

toomuchtodo 10y ago

We used it several years ago at FNAL CMS Tier-1 for monitoring ~5K physical compute workers, as well as a handful of persistent servers; works very well.