Zabbix Room for Improvement

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

The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes. 

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KT
IT Manager at CLOUDJET GROUP

I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE.

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Volkan Yirik - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager at İdea Teknoloji

Zabbix needs to work on the network monitoring part. The competing products provide a network map. Zabbix lacks an adequate networking map. It has a map but it's static, it's not dynamic.

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Florian Masiero - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at Viamedis

In terms of user-friendliness, large maps could be more interactive. We should be able to click on some areas and move some objects. It would make it simpler to see things while analyzing some dedicated parameters.

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NR
Information Security Officer at Kenmare Resources Mauritius

Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier. 

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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

The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. 

I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint.

A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves.

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Matthieu Bouthors - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Engineer Southern Europe at Netskope

The networking monitor is not too easy to work with. It's like switch monitoring. It's okay, yet not perfect. It's something they could improve on. I'm still using SmokePing since the network monitoring isn't so great.

The initial setup isn't exactly easy.

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

The service module started with version six. There is room for improvement, due to the fact that this first step looks nice, yet it can be improved here for a better combination with the services and the dashboard. 

The event correlation could be better. From day one, we're using the API to create tickets for our operations, however, the correlation is not good, not there. A lot of the time, in that case, we are opening a few tickets for one problem, and then the correlation functionality is very, very limited.

The reporting is lacking. It is there, however, it's not a real reporting from my perspective. Reporting in Zabbix means you create a dashboard and then you can schedule that and you get it as a PDF. It's probably not the reporting most operations need especially if you need more data for importing Excel or whatever. Reporting is even, in a lot of ways, missing. In the other end, we are using the API to do that now. That said, the issue there is you need the developer to do that if you decide to go that route.

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

Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue. But for PRTG devices, we can configure it on our own within half an hour. Besides, Zabbix is not easy to understand. The interface we need to check and what steps are to be taken to do so needs clarification. The new joiners need help learning to utilize it as they need to check the steps individually. Also, there were graphs in the earlier version, but the present version has blocks and no graphs.

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

Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage.

In the solution's next release, customizing scripts could be easier and API interactions could be better. If they would allow larger data metrics on one chart would be helpful.

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KK
Manager, Network Administration at a consumer goods company with 11-50 employees

The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database. Finding customized agents for each product needs some deep understanding. They also don't have a license for the product, but you can purchase a support contract they provide.

Unlike NETSCOUT, Zabbix lacks the capability to work purely on packets, drill down on root causes and monitor any infrastructure regardless of the vendor.

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

There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast. 

This leads to optimization challenges, requiring manual deletion of network components like SNMP. We should work with SNMP. It's not as simple as configuring the host incident.

Configuration can also be difficult. The use of a workflow in the configuration of items or triggers makes it difficult to use an item in a mature way. It's hard to set up a dynamic workflow. While workflows exist, setting them up for specific data sources like network items can be a hurdle. You may need to find alternative methods, which isn't ideal.

For some customers, there are some personal customization challenges. But, for me, it's okay.

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IZ
Broadcast Engineer

There is a bit of a learning curve during installation.

Support could be better. 

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WC
CTO at Conscia

One of the things we don't like is that Zabbix has a license structure with a price that is high compared to the competition. It's very high, for example, compared to something like Microsoft Teams.

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FN
CEO/Founder at Zen Networks

Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. 

Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. 

As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this.

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PK
Infrastructure Automation Lead at SoftServe Ltd.

In the near future, we are going to see integration with its cloud platform.

We would like to use it for RBI, for service and credibility reports for our manager and management staff, and we also hope to use it to deliver customer scripts, etc. Currently, because we monitor over 5,000 hosts and servers, we need to use open source. 

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

The solution needs to add remote features. 

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

The reports are not great and should be improved. In other tools, we can schedule reports and fetch them. However, with Zabbix, we cannot export reports. It is possible to export some of the data but our monthly reports, including those for performance and availability, cannot be exported.

This product is not highly available by default. I have read that in the next major version, 6.0, they are planning to do that for the proxies.

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EB
Infrastructure Manager and Security at ITG

I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company.

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ND
Responsible Infrastructure and Production at Oasis SmartSim

We need to set it up step by step in order to ensure that it is stable and works properly.

If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee.

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

Although Zabbix is great, the documentation is a bit lacking. The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, the learning curve is steep and can be difficult for first-timers, especially when they run into issues.

Zabbix depends on other open-source projects, so it would be a good idea to add more information on fine-tuning a Zabbix instance especially the essential details when working with specific choices of OS, database, webserver etc. I had to do most of the things with limited resources in the fine-tuning of the database, OS, and other packages. Although not entirely a Zabbix issue it is a good idea to provide guidance on the basics.

Automatic maps. It would be great if Zabbix could create automatic topology maps using discovery protocols like LLDP or CDP.

Automatic Updates of host templates. It would save a lot of time if that could be done with new releases while keeping personal configurations intact.

Out of box high availability setting for all sections of Zabbix

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D6B8 - PeerSpot reviewer
District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

I wish it had more options for personalizing the product, such as being able to include your company's logo without editing text files. More templates for specific devices.

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

My main intention is to support or use Zabbix to report patching for servers, or to somehow maintain the patching from Zabbix.

Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers.

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BalaVighnesh - PeerSpot reviewer
SRE at Zscaler

I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly.

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

Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need.

For example, Zabbix can be used for a company monitoring solutions by many vendors. We have only one site and one company, so we can't improve all the possibilities of the software.

Zabbix could add some more cybersecurity features. It isn't the same thing because network monitoring isn't the same as security. Still, it could include something like a VPN or firewall with the solution. It's a free software tool traditionally used for monitoring. 

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BY
Software Specialist at NTT Thailand

There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting.

In a future release, they should add a NetFlow feature, and improve the dashboard templates.

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Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible. I have heard from others that there are scripts that can manage this task easily but I have not figured it out. In the area of the solution where you write the command, it is not very user-friendly and could be improved. We want the ability to write commands and execute them manually.

Additionally, I would like the ability to be able to have network mapping for this solution. I use network mapping to monitor networks and there are not very many tools that are able to do it or if there is a tool, it is not easy.

The color scheme of the interface could improve by allowing more variations or user customization.

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Cesar Danecke - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Supervisor at HORSCH BRASIL

The product is already great. Wanting something more could take the focus off the product. However, the correlation of events would be a wonderful addition.

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DC
Co-Founder at Nobius IT

If anything could be improved, it would be some of the terminology that is used in the documentation. The documentation is good, but it's been translated into English and occasionally suffers from terminology issues. There are additional features that the commercial software has that Zabbix doesn't. Full AIOps isn't cheap, things like machine learning and artificial intelligence attract a massive price premium and are rarely implemented properly. But they are major, major features.

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

They need to improve the APM solution, the Application Management solution. There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution. 

The initial setup could be a bit simpler. 

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

I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes.

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DB
Founder at Art World Web Solutions

Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way.

It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. 

The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features.

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

The quality of the templates (typically offered by third parties) is often poor, and they contain bugs. I encourage the Zabbix users to understand the template structure to be able to improve them.

The setup process for certain integrations can be challenging and there is potential for them to be improved or at least better documented.

The creation of custom metrics could be simplified.

Zabbix can use better documentation and support for troubleshooting.

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

The product could be more secure and more stable.

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GK
Deputy Manager - Infrastructure at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement.

The interface could be more user-friendly because it is can be really complicated if an end-user has to configure it. The administrator usually has to take care of that.

I would like to see more SNMP and storage support.

Application monitoring should be included in the future. I would like to see voice telephony monitoring and database monitoring.

The reporting functionality is limited.

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AM
Engineering manager at BGH Tech Partner

There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc. We would like to see some applications or plugins as bricks that we can use to construct applications to use with Zabbix. For example, we are starting using Zabbix with Grafana for presentations and apparently they match very easily but you need to put in a lot of work to get the final results. If you have some applications that you can add one to one, you can construct the project more quickly.

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

I don't like to use the solution for the most part.

I get too many false positives. I get a problem one minute and then it's okay the next. That happens a lot. I hate that.

The user interface could be better.

The performance needs improvement.

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RC
Application Monitoring Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's open-source software, and due to that, they really don't have legacy service monitorings like APM, or build-on capabilities, and the pure part of the transaction-related data. It is good for internal network monitoring, however, it's not for the service we are monitoring, microservices.

The stability could be better.

Basically, they need to provide automated monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and then APM monitoring as well as more on microservices or technology space, maybe like Java, .NET, Datadog, et cetera - these kinds of add-on instrumentations. They need to work somewhat on the dashboard and alerting side. Dashboards are not that good. They can improve on them.

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FA
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier

I don't know if I can remotely restart my servers or to know how a guest is doing on the server. I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability. 

I have to use another software such as Emperor to log into the computer to see what is going on with the servers.

I would like to see a RAS integrated with Zabbix for monitoring, also to be able to check the server and to have an automatic display to do what we need to do.

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

The automation could be improved.

In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually. For example, if we collect a report file every day and want to send it to a moderator for review. We are expecting this feature to come out soon but it would be valuable to have now.

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

When our customers don't choose to go with Zabbix, it's usually been because they're looking for a solution that also contains mainstream AI, AIOps, if you wish. AIOps is a fully noted marketing buzzword, which can mean all sorts of things for different people. When I use that term, I'm talking about the requirement to analyze in-depth enterprise data. Zabbix is not an analytics platform.

We've never had any issue at all integrating Zabbix with any of the existing enterprise tools, whether it be ITSM, JIRA, or an analytics tool like Splunk — it's never been an issue. Their design team does a very good job allowing people to get access to the Zabbix database and to the Zabbix Schema, which defines the data that's stored in.

In the latest version, which is just about to be deployed, they are adding the capability of doing APM (Application Performance Monitoring). That's a feature that has currently been lacking — we'll have to see how it goes.

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

I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this.

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VT
Support Team and Services at konverge technologies pvt ltd

The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working. 

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JP
Président / Directeur des services informatiques at Atig network

I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana. 

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

There are a lot of things that can use improvement which is why we are seeking a new solution. Network monitoring is a problem. It gives too many false positives. For example, it notifies us that a server is down while I'm using that server — the server it claims is down — to do the search. A moment after the search is complete, everything is OK again. It's called flapping. It has some flapping control, but it's not as good as other products. I used to use Icinga and it is a better product in that respect.

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

The low discovery functionality is still very young so this feature has a lot of room for improvement. The graphics generated by the system can be improved and also the web interface. At this point in time it's possible to archive a good level of security by using external tools, but it would be nice if this level of security could be archived out of the box.

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

Zabbix isn't very good at automation just yet. It's something we are working on. The extent of automation and the scripts that we have in ManageEngine are much more than what Zabbix gives out. For Zabbix, what we are doing is, we are creating scripts and trying to run them, however, that's not always the right way to frame it. It would be much better if there was a tool within the solution itself.

The reporting is quite limited on the product. As an organization, what we did is we started utilizing a couple of connectors for the reporting. For example, we started using Power BI, and we started using Grafana. That's how we are enhancing our experience to the customers now. Zabbix doesn't give you a tool.

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it_user8784 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Zabbix has it all except for predictive trending. This would be a nice extra feature. Also the SLA (it services) part can use some improvement. View full review »
Shibu Babuchandran - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Manager/ Service Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Currently, we're looking for more AI and ML related capabilities, which is missing from Zabbix at this point in time. There are tools out there with plenty of AI and ML capabilities and this is something that Zabbix needs to come out with. That would make this a great solution to sell. Essentially, they are trying to achieve automation by introducing external RP bots. If Zabbix could fix this issue, it would be a fabulous solution for us to sell and for companies to use.  

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RR
Principal Technical Consultant at CIBER

I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box.

It would also be very interesting to have a GUI on the proxy server[s]

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

Zabbix is a great tool and fairly easy for a technical person but it could be more friendly for non-technical staff.

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Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement. 

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

Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps. 

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

The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly.

I would like to recommend the possibility of being integrated for the monitoring of the Micro Strategy System environment and clusters of machine Micro Services.

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

We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored.

We would also like inventory management functionality to be added to this solution.

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TS
Chief Revenue Officer at paramaah it services

While there are a number of benefits to Zabbix being open source, getting that trust from the customer is a little bit on the challenging side. Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it.

It can also be difficult for us to formulate a price for clients that need a solution for which there is no template. If we can implement a solution with the help of a template, we know how much time and effort it will take so it is easy to estimate a price for the customer. Without templates, estimation is a little bit challenging. 

In addition to the above, although there are templates available for Cisco switches, they do not work for all families of Cisco switches.

These are the challenges we are facing at our company. Overall, setting up Zabbix is a challenge. However once it is setup, managing it is comparatively easy.

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

The NetFlow integration really could be improved upon. In general, integration with other solutions and services needs to be worked on.

The documentation could be improved. I find that it's a bit limited.

It runs on a Linux backend, and we're using it to monitor our Windows platforms. For people who are not familiar with Linux, there may be issues. You do need to have a bit of Linux knowledge before beginning, otherwise, you may have problems working with it.

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

If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice.

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MD
Monitoring Manager at SkyToll, a. s.

It's OK for me as is, but some frontend improvements would be nice.

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

The capacity planning feature and SLA monitoring need to be improved.

The capacity planning feature should give to administrator recommendations regarding the actions to be done on systems to ensure scalability and stability. In addition, currently this feature only provides basic information (disk usage time left, cpu consumption forecast, etc.). You cannot predict easly the capacity planning of virtual infrastructure or scale-out network storage.


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it_user90867 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I think ZABBIX needs improved report functions. Since ZABBIX version 1.8 we are using the ZABBIX API to integrate ZABBIX data with others tools (Pentaho, QlikView, etc.) when ZABBIX built-in reports are not enough. View full review »
Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

They should open an SSH session from the web interface.

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

An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices.

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

I'd like it if they'd have implemented some sort of SNMP auto-discovery.

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

The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have. It would work great if I had the time to do it, but considering that I have all kinds of different devices, I don't want to spend the time doing it.

If they included more prebuilt templates of devices that are in use today, then it would be very helpful. For example, they have a template for a SonicWall 3600, but they don't have one for a SonicWall Tz300. They do have some base templates but they are not customized for these specific products. For some products, I was able to download one, but not for all of them.

The documentation needs to be improved.

The deployment is complex and should be simpler to complete.

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TJ
CEO at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great.

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it_user1005354 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at Fujitsu

Multitenancy.

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

Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI.

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

As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay. 

I don't have any requests for additional features. 

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

The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API.

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it_user90870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company

The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional.

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

There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities.

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LA
Associate Founder at KerBBo Consulting

Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations.

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

Reporting and SLA customization.

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it_user354798 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting System Engineer at ENEA

I use an older version of the product, so I cannot answer this question.

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AD
Junior Network Engineer at Easy Systems

The performance reporting could be improved.

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

I don't recall coming across missing features. It's a fairly complete solution.

The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit.

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GB
IT Administrator at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

It should be easy to modify the front end.

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it_user1000593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at SON Corporate Group

It is a little complex to config and implement so I'd like for them to make it easier to config, for example, a configuration for SNMPv3 or trap listener on it.

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

The server monitoring could be better.

I'm not well versed in Zabbix, so it's difficult for someone like me to handle the setup. They should work to make the implementation much easier. It would improve the useability of the solution.

The solution needs to have a higher quality of performance. Performance is very important to our clients, and this solution doesn't perform very well. The quality and code are difficult.

The solution does not scale well.

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

Look and feel.

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

The Java gateway for monitoring Java applications didn’t work for us. Our JMX Service URL’s are somewhat complex, but we were able to write our own JMX checks.

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

Reporting is weak, if you want something better you must write your own SQL scripts/

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

The System Center Operations Manager can be improved. 

Cloud monitoring can be a bit easier, and the Zabbix dashboard can be developed a little bit more.

There could be integration with Ansible Tower or AWX CLI.

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

It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages.

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it_user183006 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The UI is hard to get used to.

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

When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it.

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