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.

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.

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.

We use Zabbix mainly to monitor the status of interfaces in our Juniper suite. When an interface goes down or when traffic on an interface drops, Zabbix triggers an alert to our Telegram. We're not using it for performance monitoring, just for interface monitoring.

The most valuable function for me is the auto-discovery of interfaces in devices. When you integrate devices into the tool, it automatically finds the interfaces, which is very helpful for my job. Integration and configuration run smoothly in my experience with Juniper and Aruba devices.

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 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 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.