Zabbix – real-time monitoring

Last Updated on March 18, 2022

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source server/client network management system with many features that are missing in other monitoring systems. It’s designed to monitor and track the status of various network services, servers, and other network hardware.

This application is frequently used for:

• Hgh level monitoring of IT services.
• Centralized monitoring of your servers and applications.
• Monitoring of SNMP-enabled devices.
• Performance monitoring (process load, network activity, disk activity, memory usage, OS parameters etc).
• Data visualization.

Zabbix consists of several separate modules: Server, Proxy, Agent, and a web frontend interface.

Features include:

• Personalized dashboard.
• Easy administration with data stored in a relational database.
• Supports 5 database engines:  MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Oracle, and SQLite.
• Distributed monitoring in real time:
  • Centralized configuration.
• • Centralized access to all data.
• • Up-to 1000 of Zabbix nodes.
• • Unlimited number of proxies.
  • Centralized web administration.
• Auto-discovery of servers and network devices.
• Real-time monitoring: performance, availability, integrity; with a flexible notification mechanism to configure email based alerts for any event, Pro-active monitoring.
• Agent-less monitoring.
• Audit log.
• Agent-based, pro-active and aggregate monitoring.
• Visualization including mapping, timeline in charts, graphing and zooming.
• Supports network maps where monitored environment can be laid out on a background image to provide user friendly overview.
• Web monitoring.
• High performance agents: memory and network utilisation, Disk I/O, disk space availability, file checksums, monitors log files.
• Secure user authentication by IP address, flexible user permissions and protection against brute force attacks.
• Support for both polling and trapping mechanisms.
• Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
• SNMPv3 support.
• Support for multihome devices.
• Passive mode for proxies.
• System templates.
• Highly scalable, tested with 100,000 monitored devices and services.
• Full unicode support.
• JSON-RPC based Zabbix API.

Website: www.zabbix.com
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Zabbix SIA
License: GNU GPL v2

Zabbix is written in PHP and C. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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