Zabbix is highly flexible with easily customizable out of box templates , hosts auto-discovery, low level discovery of items, configurable actions, out of box multi-tenancy support (a result of granular user roles and permissions, host groups and tags), ad-hoc graphs, customizable dashboards, strong API for integration with other systems and intuitive maps. I also like the clear and open roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For first timers it takes a lot of time to figure out how things work, customize or tune Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having the ability to have a dashboard for a summary view across all network elements and their status with color coding and alerts is brought readily to my attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Changing threshold settings for specific alerts requires detailed, expert knowledge and looking for help in the manuals and guides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing I like is the metrics for monitoring in real time.Gives network utilization and CPU load and disk space consumption Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I dislike about the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexible, Zabbix can be customized to fit your needs and adapt to any use case. The granularity in their roles makes super easy multi-tenancy support. Highly customizable dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation is not the best. Not very user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about Zabbix is its a free tool that you can easily install in any Linux flavored machines and the installation process is also easy, you need need to be very technically good to install the tool and the steps of installation are very well documented in their website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the disadvantages of Zabbix is the template used for the different vendor of network devices are pretty old and for adding new host on the tool with SNMPv3, finding a template is a task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zabbix is the best open-source monitoring tool that allows me to customize templates as I want to monitor any server and desktop operating systems and set different threshold limits for alerts by simply editing a xml file.

Not only operating systems, It allows me to monitor VMware ESXi hosts and also the enterprise network devices such as Routers, Switches and Access Points as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Zabbix, I have tried to monitor Cent OS, Ubuntu OS and Windows 10 OS using SNMP and I have noticed that it takes more time to identify services that are running in the host system (Some times it takes more than 1 hour) and also it can identify only few services with SNMP.

But later-on, I have installed Zabbix agents to all the 3 operating systems and then add them to Zabbix server. Then the server started identifying all the host services with in seconds. So, my recommendation is to always use Zabbix Agent if it is available for the client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zabbix is a great tool for automation control. It easily assists administration in managing permissions and roles for users. The audit view of the custom log can be modified according to roles and permissions to maintain data confidentiality. The trigger display can be customized. The availability report has a new time filter that can be used to select a time range to view specific data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The detection of problems and metric collection visualization should be configurable for each user view. The configuration needs event correlation to activate points and should come with a test function key to verify functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We installed Zabbix almost two months ago. I heard from a friend who works in a web company as a Linux systems admin. Very simple installation, you can find many documents on the official site and the web. But the configuration is a bit complicated for a network guy. I am a network engineer and it is a system monitoring tool. My friend tells me it's better for system monitoring, but in my opinion, if you want network monitoring, you can use different software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My experience with Zabbix has been perfect, so there's nothing to complain about except the lack of a truly comprehensive manual for the deployment and initial configuration of the supported and long-term updated version 4. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adapting it to your environment and personalizing it also takes some time, but in the end, it is something that will help you save yourself from device-by-device control. My experience has been very positive, I have used many monitoring tools that were also good, but this is the one that convinced me the most. It takes time for implementation but it is understood that it is a free tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes patience and time to adjust the trigger so that it only shows the problems that actually exist in the infrastructures, but once it is adapted to your needs, it becomes an ally in being aware of resources and being able to react in time. When a problem arises with the tool, there aren't many forums and it requires investing time in finding the solution. In almost a year and a half that I've had the tool, I've only had the monitoring stop for a few hours because the service was interrupted; I found the cause by searching in the forums and was able to solve the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For my team, it has proven to be a performant and optimal monitoring tool based on the solid Linux kernel, free and open source with an effective dashboard. Implementation of new hosts, items, and triggers is quite simple, a complete web-based tool (I presume PHP) with ease of adding hosts that need to be monitored on a single configuration web browser but with multiuser support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paid support and the community is not very active today, the knowledge base guides are available but for previous versions and not for version 4 LTS. Difficulty in creating objects and, moreover, monitoring Windows Hypervisor is difficult compared to monitoring other open source virtualization servers like Proxmox or OpenStack. The predefined charts selectable in the non-enterprise version are inferior compared to other monitoring tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.