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.

Regarding HP wireless, I used to manage over 2000 HP Aruba wireless access points via the Aruba Central cloud portal to manage the wireless network. In fact, it's a portal where we can manage HP switches as well as SD-WAN, with extensive features available in the Aruba Cloud Portal. I used to manage those few HP switches and Aruba access points via the cloud portal since my organization purchased only a few of them.

Customization is easy because it provides many options for the level of monitoring. For instance, if we want to use the interface utilization, many parameters related to that are provided. This tool will monitor only what we configure, unlike others that monitor everything, but this tool will monitor only what we specify.

Zabbix has a lot of integrations, although there are still a few things that have not been integrated. For example, last month we faced a challenge and were not able to integrate the email gateway. We were unable to get the email alerts from Zabbix, and such levels of issues still exist in Zabbix.

Zabbix is Linux-based open-source software, and the main use case is to reduce costs. People want to save costs, which is why they install Zabbix, but the reporting functionality is not properly developed.

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.