Zabbix is a free software tool traditionally used for monitoring your organization’s IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services. Zabbix makes it possible for you to maintain control of your infrastructure by collecting any metric from any source. The solution also offers agentless monitoring, synthetic monitoring, custom collection methods, and data transformation.
Zabbix offers:
- Network monitoring
- Server monitoring
- Cloud monitoring
- Application monitoring
- Service monitoring
Zabbix Features
Zabbix has many valuable key features, including:
Action Log, Anomaly Detection, Auditing, Automated Actions, Availability Reports, Capacity Planning, Custom Scripts, Custom Templates, Data Retrieval, Drill-Down Reports, Encryption, Event Correlation, History Data Analysis, Metric Collection, Multiple Authentication Methods, Multiple Severity Levels, Native WMI Support for Windows Agent, Network Discovery, Notifications, Root Cause Analysis, Trend Prediction, WMI Support, Web Services Widget-based Dashboards, Zero-Maintenance
Zabbix Benefits
There are several benefits to implementing Zabbix. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:
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Flexible deployment options: Zabbix can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud to help you stay fully in control of your data.
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Unlimited scalability: Zabbix is scalable to any infrastructure. It can easily scale for your personal home, or can scale for a large enterprise environment.
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Ready-to-use templates: Zabbix comes with ready-to-use templates which makes it easy to integrate with systems you already use.
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External vault: Zabbix enables you to keep your data secure and safe by providing an external vault storage option.
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High availability: By using Zabbix’s high availability solution, you can negate the risk of data loss and gain 24/7 uptime.
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Partner and vendor-backed: The solution is backed by 250+ global partners and multiple external vendors, giving you confidence in the solution.
Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Zabbix users.
PeerSpot user Shibu B., Regional Manager/ Service Delivery at ASPL Info Services, says, "The solution is quite mature and very stable. The monitoring capabilities of the product are excellent.” He also adds, “The solution is very easy to scale and the product is open-source, meaning there aren't any licensing costs associated with it.”
Julian L., Senior Specialist Critical Infrastructure at an educational organization, comments that the solution is “A complete solution that doesn't cost anything, does what I need it to do, and has easy-to-use templates and very good scalability.” He also mentions “The agents are pretty cool. They're easy to roll out. The standard out-of-the-box templates are also pretty easy to use. The integration with other learning products is also good.”
Faycal N., CEO/Founder at Zen Networks, praises the product, mentioning, “Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."
Zenoss Service Dynamics (ZSD) is a software-defined IT operations platform that provides
deep performance insights through real-time analytics to help your organization optimize any IT environment by building granular and intelligent infrastructure relationship models. ZSD has a highly flexible user interface, provides immediate root-cause analysis, helps prevent IT disruptions, offers intelligent automation, and also includes optimized infrastructure performance. The solution can be delivered as on-premises software or as a Zenoss-hosted service (ZaaS).
Zenoss Service Dynamics Features
ZSD has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:
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Real-time service model: This feature is designed to help your organization understand the relationships and interdependencies between the IT services you are responsible for delivering and your constantly changing infrastructure.
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Operational analytics: The solution offers in-depth operational analytics reporting based on a normalized and centralized data store. With its operational analytics, you can view historical performance and event management trends month over month, quarter over quarter, and year over year. You can do this by using your own custom report or by using one of the solution’s out-of-box reports.
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Root-cause analysis: ZSD allows you to conduct root-cause analysis of performance and availability issues for services, which reduces event storms to a prioritized list of most likely events.
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Predictive reporting: Using this feature, you can filter out insignificant outliers, then generate projections that help you proactively manage future capacity requirements that are based on historical usage data.
Zenoss Service Dynamics Benefits
There are many benefits to implementing ZSD. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:
- Gain total visibility of overall IT service health with intelligent dashboards and reports.
- Eliminate risk associated with digital transformation.
- Use real-time modeling to gain awareness of end-to-end infrastructure-related risks.
- View performance and anomalies across all on-premises and cloud infrastructures.
- Apply consistent monitoring policies across all cloud and on-premises systems.
- Enable agile IT while eliminating employee fatigue by reducing alerts.
- Future-proof your monitoring platform to run at any scale.
- Get AIOps insights to predict service health and performance issues.
- Collaborate across teams to coordinate investigation and problem-solving.
- Deliver management as a service for DevOps teams.
- Leverage AI and machine learning for predictive analytics.
Reviews from Real Users
PeerSpot user Aldo-P., Security Architect at ITSur, says, “The solution has a variety of great features. The dashboard is excellent. With it, I can see everything from one place. It gives me a full picture of my networks and I can quickly see if there are any trouble areas to note. The user experience is excellent. Within the solution is a piece of software called Twill, which is very good. It's like dynamic monitoring. Twill provides a great user experience. I can put the URL from a website and I can send the user and password on that. Overall, it's a great solution, and I consider it to be one of the best. The initial setup is very easy. The product offers good documentation that helps with initial training.”
