Zabbix is a great monitoring software that we've been successfully using for years.

Besides impressive customisation capabilities Zabbix provides:

  • Distributed monitoring with centralised access to all data
    • Scalability with nodes/proxies
    • Web administration
  • Housekeeping
    • Serial number, location, point-of-contact, etc.
  • Visualisation
    • User defined views and slide shows
    • Favourite resources and personal dashboard
    • Mapping
    • Graphing (interactive)
    • Zooming
  • Auto discovery
    • Discovery by IP range, services and SNMP
    • Automatic monitoring of discovered devices
    • Low-level discovery (mount points, etc.).
  • Real-time monitoring
    • Performance
    • Availability
    • Integrity
    • Flexible notification conditions
    • Logging
  • Web monitoring
    • Web performance and availability monitoring
    • Flexible scenarios
    • Support POST and GET methods
  • Agent-based monitoring
    • High-performance agents
    • Native agent for any platform (many platforms supported)
    • Immune to connection problems
    • Memory/Network utilisation
    • Disk I/O
    • Disk space availability
    • File checksums
    • Monitoring of log files
  • Agentless monitoring
    • Monitoring of remote services (FTP, SSH, HTTP, other)
    • Support of SNMP v1,2,3 / SNMP traps
    • IPMI support
  • Alerting (Email,SMS,Jabber)
    • Repeated notifications
    • Escalations
    • Recovery messages ("problem resolved" notifications)
  • SLA
    • Real-time SLA reporting
  • Security
    • Flexible user permissions
    • Protection against brute force attacks
  • Open Source (GPL-2+)
    • No lock-in
    • Public access to source code (open to code audit)
  • Documentation
    • Manual
    • Wiki
    • Forums
  • Backed by Zabbix Company
    • Annual support agreements
    • Turn-key solutions
    • Technical Account Manager
    • Professional Services

Libre Consulting offers various Zabbix support services including (but not limited to) the following:

  • Installation / Configuration / Customisation
    • Web monitoring
    • Agent's configuration
    • Template development
    • UserParameters and AutoDiscovery
    • Alerting
  • Optimisation
    • Troubleshooting
    • Proxies / Active templates

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