Zabbix Initial Setup

ASM Naushad Alam - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Another team member handles setup but it is not complicated. 

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KT
IT Manager at CLOUDJET GROUP

The initial setup is very easy. It takes one day to install and deploy the solution when done very well with the right parameters. Two people are required for deployment. And since maintenance is easy, it requires one person. However, the number of people needed to maintain the solution depends on how large the setup is.

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Volkan Yirik - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager at İdea Teknoloji

Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products. 

You can find some plugins or an integration package in the Zabbix community, but you'll always need to custom-develop something. Enterprise products aren't open-source, so creating a new integration is challenging. You may need to pay for software production professional services, which are expensive.

Many people in my country fail to implement this product. They say, "This is open-source, so I can implement it myself." However, it isn't easy in the beginning. An IT technician who has no experience with network or server monitoring tools will find it difficult to plan this implementation. They call us for help.

You need one person to implement the product, but you need help from the customer side. We need someone familiar with the customer's network, database, etc. The person implementing Zabbix needs to know Linux and have some programming knowledge. 

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Florian Masiero - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at Viamedis

I was not a part of the deployment project, but I didn't hear that the deployment was complicated. The tool is very detailed, and maybe the configuration needed afterward to do the setup everywhere might be heavy.

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NR
Information Security Officer at Kenmare Resources Mauritius

The initial setup was easy. It took approximately three hours to get the server up and running.

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Julian Lewis - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior application performance monitoring and alerting specialist at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I've done many setups. They're all pretty easy to do. There are lots of different flavors of it. I've used Apache and Nginx. MySQL and PostgresSQL are the two databases I've tried out. I've done different versions. 

At the moment, my system runs on Postgres. We're looking to implement TimescaleDB on that, and we've got an Ingenex front-end that we use. It is a little bit more solid than the Apache version, and it is very flexible. You choose what you want and then you roll with it.

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Matthieu Bouthors - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Engineer Southern Europe at Netskope

The implementation process was okay. No monitoring tool is easy, I would say. It's not extremely easy, and yet, it's not extremely complex like some of the other tools. There's a moderate level of complexity during deployment. The entire process takes a couple of hours.

For my level of usage, I only need one person, and that is me, to handle any maintenance tasks. 

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UW
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is very straightforward and simple. It's easy, not overly difficult. 

We started with just one single device, one single server, since we did not have too many devices. We have, I'd say, around about 2000. However, we found it enough to monitor them all with one device. We have one device for a UI, for the application and for database as well and it's just one single server. We started with that and figured out, from the performance, it was more than enough.

The deployment, just for the application, took less than a day. It was quick. There was not too much to do. 

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Venkatesh Koppula - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup of Zabbix is complex as it is installed on Linux machines. Besides, every package has to be installed individually. Even if one package is missing, it will not be installed. So everything needs to be checked. It's too much of a headache. The solution got deployed on the cloud.

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AP
Software Maintenance Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup of Zabbix is of a medium level of difficulty. The documentation is beneficial.

For a middle-sized integration of the solution of approximately 100 hosts, it can take one to two months to do all the necessary layers.

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JM
Admin Sys Linux at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The installation itself took about one to two hours. The lack of clear step-by-step procedures. There are procedures, but they're not very detailed or user-friendly.

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IZ
Broadcast Engineer

The solution is pretty straightforward to set up. It's not complex at all. I'd rate the ease of setup eight out of ten overall. There may be a bit of a learning curve, however, once you understand the solution, the setup goes smoothly. When you are new, if you make a mistake, you have to redo something. It's better to set up a virtual machine so you can take a snapshot.

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WC
CTO at Conscia

In general, the initial setup is very straightforward. It's not a difficult implementation process.

There isn't much staff needed for deployment or maintenance tasks. 

If more functionality is added to it, that might be a reason to use it more and more. However, as it is, at this point, we are already intensive users.

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FN
CEO/Founder at Zen Networks

Its initial setup is very straightforward. You need prior knowledge of Linux, but you don't need specific knowledge of Zabbix to deploy it. It is really straightforward and lightweight. Its deployment could take as little as one hour per person.

You simply download the packages. For a small deployment, you install them in the same box. There are three main components that you have to put in the same place, and that's it. It is not really complex to set up. Zabbix isn't really geared like some of the other solutions where there are different modules for each part. Zabbix is monolithic. You have a core system that can do everything, and it is extended with the plugins that provide additional integration and monitoring, but the framework and the UI are in one package or software.

You definitely need someone to administer the platform after it is deployed. Otherwise, it is a bad deal. The number of people required for maintenance depends on the site. It can start with someone part-time, and it can end with two full-time persons developing scripts and plugins. Post-deployment maintenance also depends on the monitoring requirements. You can't have a monitoring solution that is central to your network and sees everything but doesn't change as your network changes. If your network changes, your solution has to adapt to it, which is normal for all monitoring solutions. Similarly, if you have too many metrics, you would require some database tuning as the solution gets bigger. 

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PK
Infrastructure Automation Lead at SoftServe Ltd.

For us, the initial setup was complex. We plan on integrating Zabbix with Prometheus and Grafana for a smooth relationship between dashboards. 

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Faustine Chisasa - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at TZ Telecom Ltd.

Zabbix's installation is easy. It is also easy for customization. 

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AC
Senior Contractor at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup for the Zabbix server is pretty straightforward. 

Initially, it was just a single node, so the deployment didn't take long.

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EB
Infrastructure Manager and Security at ITG

The setup was easy.

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ND
Responsible Infrastructure and Production at Oasis SmartSim

The initial setup is easy to do. It involves implementing agents in the server, but it is not difficult.

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Faustine Chisasa - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at TZ Telecom Ltd.

The setup is a bit complex but can be done with the right  skills. More important than the initial setup is optimization and finetuning which requires multiple skills.

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D6B8 - PeerSpot reviewer
District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

It's a decently complex system to get setup, it's not a simple package based system (well technically it is, but not as easy as others). It's also not as extreme as Nagios or Prometheus. We added Grafana, which made it a little more complex.

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MO
Windows Server Technology Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy.

With the help of suppliers, it did not take much time to deploy. It was not complex.

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BalaVighnesh - PeerSpot reviewer
SRE at Zscaler

I would rate the initial setup process a seven, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. Our model of deployment is on-premises.

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Patrice Delavictoire - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I rate Zabbix five out of 10 for ease of setup. It takes about two weeks to deploy. We have many people working from home, which creates some difficulties. Sometimes, people left materials at home when they work at the office, and we didn't have the time to install all the components. That's why it took time.

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BY
Software Specialist at NTT Thailand

The initial setup of Zabbix was complex and took us approximately one year to fully complete.

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Cesar Danecke - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Supervisor at HORSCH BRASIL

It is easy to deploy. The installation process is well-documented.

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DC
Co-Founder at Nobius IT

I've deployed so many times that the initial setup is straightforward, but I would say that for someone who is totally inexperienced in Linux, it can be a little time consuming. If you understand a little about Linux, then it's no problem. A full system can easily be configured in two hours but it took two days the first time I did it. If you're not a technical person you can still install it but it will likely take some time.

As an example, configuring SNMP trapping into Zabbix needs configuration outside of Zabbix itself. This is not complex, but can slow down the process for inexperienced installers.

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RW
Regional Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I'd rate the solution's initial setup as a seven out of ten. 

The installation will take time according to the IT infrastructure involved. It depends on if there are multi-locations versus one location and whether it is on the cloud or whether it is on-premises. Even so, deployment will take at least two to three weeks at a minimum.

We have eight to ten people on our team that can handle deployment and maintenance. They are admins and engineers. 

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BS
Sr. Linux Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was involved in the initial setup. The initial setup was straightforward.

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DB
Founder at Art World Web Solutions

The initial setup is great. However, later on, when you are scaling it, it becomes complex.

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BT
Chief Security Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The setup process has a steep learning curve. The documentation provided lacks detail, and I encountered some difficulties during the integration steps. It took me a few hours to set up the database.

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GM
SOC Expert at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of initial setup, it's petty straightforward. At the Linux stage, you can introduce the Linux commands. In the environment in Linux, you can install Zabbix pretty easily.

The deployment doesn't take too long. It might take only two weeks.

We do have a team that can manage the deployment and maintenance of Zabbix as needed. Usually, we have one or two managers that are able to handle anything that comes up. The rest of the team is a bit more technical. 

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DM
IT Administrator at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

The installation happened a long time ago. I can't recall what the implementation was like in terms of if it was complete or straightforward. 

You only need one person to handle the maintenance. 

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FA
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier

The initial setup was fine, it was simple.

For a proper installation, it can take up to two weeks.

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VS
Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is straightforward.

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IB
Managing Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The initial setup is straightforward. It's a powerful tool; it's applicable to many different domains, through networks, through infrastructure, through applications, through containers, virtual resources, and cloud-based applications — it can be applied to all of them. The initial implementation is usually something we never have an issue with. It's a very easy-to-download package. Implementation requires experience. Deploying Zabbix is very easy, but if you don't know what you're doing, you can make an awful mess. That's where and why we offer our consultancy — to help people to make sure that they don't end up with petabytes of monitoring information on the first day. Which of course no one has any time to go through and handle. 

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it_user901191 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I installed Zabbix, and it was easy.

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VT
Support Team and Services at konverge technologies pvt ltd

I rate Zabbix four out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Zabbix is complicated,  and the documentation isn't clear. Including the research, it took us two or three workdays to get this up and running.

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JP
Président / Directeur des services informatiques at Atig network

The basic setup is very easy. I installed it in a Raspberry Pi with a Linux version. It took perhaps 20 minutes to install, at the most.

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DM
IT Administrator at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

Installation was not hard and it was very straightforward. The initial deployment without any complex setup took a few hours. Then the setup took an additional three days to a week. In total about a week to be completely deployed with all the servers monitored and everything working.

I did the deployment alone. I set it up and everything, and left it to other people to monitor as per their responsibility. I have 10 admins monitoring it. I've stopped monitoring it at this point, or in the half past year or so, as I am looking for a better solution.

The admins use it daily. Even now, I'm getting all the emails and I'm a little bit bothered from the continued flapping. Every admin is responsible for a different aspect of the monitoring so they get their dedicated reports. For example, one admin is responsible for the ELP servers, so he's getting only the email for the ELP related stuff.

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it_user82719 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

The first time I installed the product (back in 2008) my initial impression was the software was complex to install, basically because at that time the repositories of my Linux distribution had an old version of the software and I wanted the most recent so I installed the software by compiling the sources; but once you understand, document and become familiar with the process it's pretty easy. Also, at the beginning understand the philosophy behind Zabbix was a little complicated but equally once you have the knowledge it all become easy and natural. Another aspect you can consider complex in Zabbix it's the lack of detail in some templates, so if you only use the out of the box templates (without changes) you ended up with a basic monitoring, most of the time you will need to extend the template to adjust it to your specific needs and obviously this will require knowledge of several aspects (this can be seen as an advantage or a disadvantage).

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Shibu Babuchandran - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Manager/ Service Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The initial setup is a very simple process. It's only when it comes to configurations where it gets complicated. You need expertise so that you do the right configurations and set up the right parameters for the devices. Before that, it's very easy. You just follow the steps that have been given to you and you can just install it. 

For a basic installation, it takes just two days. You set up a VM and you have the basic configuration, and that part takes two days. Configurations, however, depend on each customer. Some customers need some devices to be monitored at track level, for example.

It doesn't require maintenance, per se, however, there is required housekeeping. That's how I would put it. For example, today you may have to put in a hundred devices for monitoring, but tomorrow you start decommissioning some devices. If you don't remove them out from Zabbix, then your dashboard itself is going to give you false alerts. That's why you need to have regular housekeeping whereby you know your map, and what is required. 

When it comes to upgrades, it is pretty easy. We have a change management process. We have never faced an issue on the maintenance spot as such with any of our customers. 

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it_user8784 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Setup of Zabbix is easy. There is a great manual how to install and use it on most of the systems be it with rpm or deb or from source. It's probably the easiest open source monitoring platform to install. Also there are almost no dependencies needed that are not in the os already. View full review »
Shibu Babuchandran - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Manager/ Service Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The setup was free and because we use multiple tools, it was very easy for us. We had some teething issues, but the community is very good and helped us with that. The Zabbix community is very reliable and is quick to supply you with information when needed. 
The online support that we received from the community was very good and the KD was good enough for us to get it deployed. We didn't experience many challenges because we already had some concrete knowledge surrounding it. 

Deployment depends on the setup; I believe we had it installed in two days. Our customization depended on what level we were taking it to. We did all of the integrations and customizations ourselves, as required, but I believe we finished the base implementation within two days.

We have about 10 engineers, three to four of whom are certified on Zabbix and they take care of all maintenance related issues.  

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RR
Principal Technical Consultant at CIBER

The initial setup is easy. Making it completely HA required some work but if you are familiar with the redhat tools it is not hard.

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it_user685347 - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I didn't have troubles implementing it. The official documentation is more than enough.

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Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

The initial setup was very quick. The first time it was long because I didn't know it yet. I was only using Windows. The first time was very difficult because of the operating system. 

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YS
Senior Director at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. We did not face any issues and it was up and running within a day.

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GT
Project Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup was not complex. It took two hours to install.

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Sudip Karmacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Specialist at CAS Trading House

The setup process for this solution could be easier, as it requires a lot of configuration prior to deployment.

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TS
Chief Revenue Officer at paramaah it services

Whether or not setup is straightforward or not will depend on the client's use case. From our end, the issue is estimating the effort it will take for us to implement the solution for our clients. We run into issues when it comes to giving the clients a quote for our work ahead of time. 

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MD
ICT Network Infrastructure & Architect at a transportation company with 1-10 employees

The initial setup isn't complex at all. It was very straightforward.

In terms of deployment, it takes about a day, however, you have to add in all the other items that you're monitoring. We deployed everything and then rolled it out over the course of a couple of weeks.

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it_user1339749 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I don't recall all of the details related to the initial setup, although I remember that it was not quite easy. We had to conduct quite a few searches on Google during the process in order to properly understand how to install it. If I remember correctly, there were a couple of errors.

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it_user200937 - PeerSpot reviewer
System & Network Engineer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The setup was very simple, it is very well-documented and packaged for a lot of Linux distribution.

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it_user90867 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Its depends, if the customer environment is complex, the initial setup will be same. Here (at Unirede) the initial setups are always straightforward because we already have good expertise with ZABBIX and infrastructure areas. View full review »
Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

The initial setup is very easy, with a few command lines. For simple network monitoring, there is no need to install any special packets on the Linux server.

My first installation was Zabbix 3.2 on a CentOS 7 Linux Server. The very difficulty that I faced was the fear of the unknown!

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LA
Senior Project Manager at a university with 201-500 employees

The initial setup was easy, and deployment took two to three months.

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it_user235905 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of computer network and telecommunications division at a financial services firm

Setup is the very first step. This step you have to perform just once. The process is easy and straightforward, but the product itself is not easy to use.

I would suggest reading documentation before the installation. It has a steep learning curve.

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SD
VP of IT Infrastructure at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

After I downloaded Zabbix, it was a pain to set up. I would say that it is complex in terms of the instructions. I was getting errors, and apparently, I was not the only one. I had to look at two or three different websites to get it set up. I found that if you follow the steps that come with it, which were not very detailed, it did not work. I had to search through different forums in order to figure out the error that I was getting. By the time I had finished, it took me three or four hours to figure out why I was getting the errors, and I had to reinstall it four times in the process.

In total, I would say that the deployment took at least 12 hours.

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HJ
IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I did the setup by referring to its documentation and that was enough.

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AK
System Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The installation is really easy. The timeframe depends on the hardware speed, so it's rather fast. I handled the installation by myself. 

We don't actually have a technical team specific to Ubuntu—they're all IT guys, so we all have good skills for doing things ourselves. 

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AM
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is straightforward.

I only needed to download the application and then deploy it in the VMware Workstation, that was it. Once the virtual appliance is connected to the network, it will automatically receive access via DHCP. Lastly, we use the interface to configure specific ports, the initial deployment is quite simple. 

The time it takes for the deployment takes only a few minutes.

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it_user137115 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The setup was straightforward, monitoring simple environment. View full review »
it_user90870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company

The initial setup and the subsequent upgrade were both very easy.

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it_user301455 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Solutions Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup is a bit complex, as lots of things need to be planned carefully during the implementation of the solution, such as the hardware sizing, customizing templates for monitoring the customer's environment, and much more.

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it_user701040 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Straightforward. Documentation on the initial setup is available at Zabbix's website and easy to follow.

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it_user354798 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting System Engineer at ENEA

The initial setup was really straightforward. However, as soon as you reach 100 monitored clients, the default MySQL configuration doesn't scale up. I'm sure that a newer Zabbix version relies on better backend solutions for data storage.

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AD
Junior Network Engineer at Easy Systems

The installation is straightforward and it took approximately one hour.

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FK
IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup isn't overly complex. It's largely straightforward.

There's also a fairly sizable community around the solution and there's just so much documentation and insights from other users you have access to, therefore it's very easy to find answers to your questions when it comes to implementation.

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it_user1000593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at SON Corporate Group

Its launch is more complicated than other software and requires more steps for settings. But when it comes to how it works and how to categorize the information in the database, you'll have a better idea of what you can say.

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FK
IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup isn't too complex. It's fairly easy to implement and set up.

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it_user476439 - PeerSpot reviewer
Gerente de Informática at a tech services company

The installation process was simple.

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it_user656028 - PeerSpot reviewer
PostgreSQL Database Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It wasn’t complex, but we have very skilled engineers.

The quickest way to go is to have a turnkey virtual instance tailored to your needs by Zabbix, or use one of the freely available ones.

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it_user124245 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Integrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Straightforward, if you understand basic things about databases or web services, it's easy.

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EE
System Consultant, Team Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Its deployment is easy. Virtual appliances are very easy, and Zabbix agents are supported across different platforms, such as Linux and Windows. I would rate it five out of five in terms of the ease of the setup.

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AA
Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months.

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PN
Operations Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is not complex. In fact, it's quite easy.

It was quite quick to deploy.

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Buyer's Guide
Zabbix
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Zabbix. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.