Zabbix Primary Use Case

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

Our company is a financial organization and we use the solution to check connectivity, CPU utilization, and hard disk utilization for all of our servers. We monitor networks to learn traffic conditions. We use threshold features to compare servers or routers and find each server's size before it reaches 100%. 

The solution is currently installed in our IT division. We have 6,000 employees, 50 divisions, and 500 servers. The solution monitors all firewalls including HCI, Check Point, Palo Alto, Cisco, and VMware. 

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KT
IT Manager at CLOUDJET GROUP

I used Zabbix for transaction monitoring.

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Volkan Yirik - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager at İdea Teknoloji

Many of my customers want to replace enterprise products from Micro Focus, IBM, Computer Associates, eMT, etc., with Zabbix. They don't want to pay a high price for many modules and pieces of software, so they switch to an open-source product. 

I work for a software development company that produces a product, but it's not like Zabbix. We make an umbrella people-management solution, but we also integrate Zabbix. We typically offer customers a people management and business intelligence solution integrated with Zabbix for monitoring. We tell them Zabbix can meet all their monitoring needs, including servers, websites, applications, networks, etc. 

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Florian Masiero - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at Viamedis

I'm using it to have a global map overview of all my machines. We also use it in simple scenarios to check that our applications are up. We haven't really created that many dashboards at this time, but our next mission is to create good dashboards to efficiently track the VM performance.

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NR
Information Security Officer at Kenmare Resources Mauritius

We are using Zabbix in my workplace to monitor the infrastructure.

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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 designed and built a high-available solution with Zabbix version 5. I introduced and deployed Zabbix in my current company, and it ended up becoming a production service within the company.

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Matthieu Bouthors - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Engineer Southern Europe at Netskope

We primarily use the solution for monitoring issues and availability.

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

We deploy it for our customers.

The main use case is monitoring of the workplace services. That means lot of VDI systems, little machines, and all that stuff around office routers, switches, and even printers for example.

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

We mainly use it for server monitoring, like checking how much storage is available. For network devices, we use PRTG.

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

I use Zabbix for monitoring. For example, monitoring networks and applications.

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

Zabbix is used for monitoring infrastructure, including networks and servers. It is used for monitoring the performance of each device. It can also be used for application monitoring, but the integration is not easy.

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

We primarily use it for monitoring, but also for some other things.

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IZ
Broadcast Engineer

We are using the solution for network monitoring for all of our appliances and devices as well as servers and switches. 

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WC
CTO at Conscia

We use it to collaborate with each other internally as a company for video conferencing, meetings, teams, and those kinds of things. We implement it in customer environments as well for the same reasons, and also for eHealth solutions, for instance, in hospitals.

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FN
CEO/Founder at Zen Networks

Generally, it is used for infrastructure and network monitoring. We've been using it for monitoring systems and application infrastructure. It goes through the whole stack, and that's what we like about it. It can also be extended, but I wouldn't consider that as the primary use case. 

It can be deployed on-premise as well as on the cloud. It is meant to be on-premise, but some providers like us can use Zabbix on the cloud and provide it as a SaaS model. It is predominantly deployed on-premise. We mainly use versions 4.x and 5.x.

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PK
Infrastructure Automation Lead at SoftServe Ltd.

I implement Zabbix for large companies with over 5,000 employees.

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

I use Zabbix to monitor the threats in the IT infrastructure. 

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

We are a solution provider and Zabbix is one of the products that we implement for our clients. I am the senior consultant for Zabbix in my organization.

The use cases are pretty basic. They include memory and disk monitoring, database monitoring, log file monitoring, and application monitoring.

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EB
Infrastructure Manager and Security at ITG

We use Zabbix on-premises for monitoring our servers and calculating consumption of CPU, memory, and storage space. It's an important part of monitoring our environments and it shows us a lot of information about the health of our systems. And, in terms of performance, we also use it for actively getting rid of bottlenecks.

There are four IT staff members who use Zabbix regularly, including system administrators and the director of IT.

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ND
Responsible Infrastructure and Production at Oasis SmartSim

We have two Zabbix servers, deployed locally and in our New York datacenter, and we use them for monitoring traffic. It is an order processing system and we need to schedule and monitor our infrastructure.

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

As a network services provider we use Zabbix to monitor network infrastructure and customer services. I have also set instances for a number of government institutions to monitor their entire ICT Infrastructure. I will focus on the largest instances, the service provider use cases.

I used Zabbix to monitor network devices, servers, databases, virtual machines, services and applications. For the network services provider, I run an instance for our internal infrastructure and another instance for monitoring our customer services so they can have access to monitor the state and status of their services, SLA, view utilization graphs on demand or in real time and produce needed reports and also receive alerts when problems happen

We could easily monitor anything on our infrastructure and customer services using Zabbix as a consolidated solution for all the network infrastructure and customer services monitoring needs , as Zabbix is highly flexible and customizable to fit the specific needs of organizations.

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D6B8 - PeerSpot reviewer
District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

Monitoring systems and services that don't have their own solution in our environment. Single place to monitor multiple systems and processes. We monitor servers, websites, key card devices, etc..

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

We are currently doing a POC. For now, it is our testing tool.

We use it mostly as a monitoring infrastructure for services and applications, and it also monitors the capacity.

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BalaVighnesh - PeerSpot reviewer
SRE at Zscaler

Our primary use case is server and network monitoring.

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

We use Zabbix to monitor the configuration and usage of devices on the network, including switches and printers. 

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BY
Software Specialist at NTT Thailand

We develop applications in Python and we use Zabbix for the monitoring of the network for people connecting to the bank.

We have many proxy servers using this solution.

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Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

I use the solution for network monitoring. When I was in engineering school I used this solution and I found it really good. I wanted to bring the functionality of this solution to my community to show the engineers in my enterprise. There is not a lot of understanding of network monitoring and I am hoping to bring to them my knowledge. 

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Cesar Danecke - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Supervisor at HORSCH BRASIL
  • Monitor network assets
  • Data links
  • Disk space
  • Physical servers
  • More than 1k virtual machines
  • Websites
  • Logins into automated systems
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DC
Co-Founder at Nobius IT

I'm currently dealing with three implementations - two are on cloud and one is on-premise. Our clients use the solution to monitor IT infrastructures, IT networks, applications, and cloud as well as containers.

I have a very exciting additional use case as well that we're working on, using Zabbix 5.x for internet of things (IOT) monitoring. It supports MQTT and ModBus, which allows us to monitor IOT devices.

The flexibility of taking monitoring data from such a wide variety of platforms - beyond traditional IT - makes Zabbix a highly flexible solution.

I'm a consultant of this solution as well as a user. I'm a Zabbix certified professional and director of a Zabbix authorized reseller (Nobius) in the UK. 

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

The solution is a network monitoring tool. If you have any type of IT infrastructure, it can help you monitor that IT infrastructure and get the logs collected. You can control and manage your IT, et cetera.

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

We use it to monitor Linux systems. It has performed well.

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DB
Founder at Art World Web Solutions

We are using Zabbix in our project for demo purposes. One of our clients is also using Zabbix. They have a data center, and they use it for internal monitoring. They are on a cloud system.

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

We use Zabbix to monitor our physical, virtual, and network infrastructure.

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

In my company, I have a lot of web services on the internet and use it for monitoring. For example, for concurrent sessions, I can count the HTTP requests, or I can use it to monitor the CPU and RAM in my devices, web application devices. 

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

We primarily use Zabbix for monitoring our infrastructure.

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AM
Engineering manager at BGH Tech Partner

We delivered a project for telemetry but not just for IT. We are running a project monitoring different parameters for radio communication sites, so we collect information about alarms and analog values, not specifically IT projects. We need an application that  collects SNMP traps and show on the screen and take an historical report or graph. We contract with Zabbix for companies that have Zabbix for telemetry. We have integrated the system to our communications systems. This system is used in mission critical applications for radio communications, police, firemen's, health, etcetera.

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

The solution is primarily used for monitoring servers, printers, and network switches.

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FA
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier

The primary use case is to resolve connection issues for my YouTube access.

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

We use this solution for network and application monitoring.

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

The primary use case is the cost. Typically speaking, our customers have a plethora of tools and they find it very difficult to manage their business services with a selection of tools. In most cases, they're able to replace all of their tools with one — Zabbix. 

We counsel groups and we recommend using Zabbix — we're a reseller.

We focus on Zabbix. When a customer needs it integrated with Microsoft, or ServiceNow, or other solutions, then we help them out from a consulting perspective. We focus on and we recommend Zabbix. Which is an enterprise monitoring solution.

I take care of sales and marketing.

If the customer requires integration, then there are easy ways of integrating Zabbix with JIRA, ServiceNow, ITSM, and all other sorts of different solutions.

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

We have a lot of servers (about 10,000). We monitor and manage them using Zabbix.

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VT
Support Team and Services at konverge technologies pvt ltd

I use Zabbix for network and server hardware monitoring.

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JP
Président / Directeur des services informatiques at Atig network

I use Zabbix on my Raspberry Pi and it is set up to monitor our network. We are testing it at the moment to see how it responds to our network, which includes laptops and workstations.

I have not gone into great detail with the product, although I expect to be doing that within the next months.

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

Our primary use for the solution was to monitor the network and servers.

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

One of our services is implementation.

Basically what we're doing now in terms of use cases is we have customers that have implemented Zabbix including at one of the biggest banks out in Nepal and India. The basic monitoring for the banks are taken care of by Zabbix. Zabbix being open-source, has available APIs for any device or any service that can be easily mapped onto it for monitoring. 

If the customer comes and tells me that I need to monitor an ATM machine, typically, what happens is you need to go back to the OEM to ask for the API so that it can be integrated. However, in the case of Zabbix, we just need to get into the ATM machine or the contact OEM of the ATM and get the scripts for it and add it into Zabbix. It's that easy for us. 

Some customers may be using Zabbix, however, they don't know how to implement it. What we do is make our teams certified on Zabbix implementation. Sometimes customers may be using Zabbix but then have some issues in terms of configuration or they want to work on some specific reports that they need some help with. Getting in touch with Zabbix may be difficult  Therefore, we, as a partner, help out customers. If they need to do an implementation, we help them out in implementation and then with the support services.

We have our own certified guys who help the customers as a sort-of extended arm of Zabbix. Zabbix is open-source and therefore doesn't cost anything. That said, the configuration is something with which you need support, and it requires technical expertise. That's where we pitch in. We pitch and then we say, you download it and after that, whatever is required in terms of configuration, whatever it requires in terms of preparing reports, we can help with due to the fact that we are certified.

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PN
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We monitor Zabbix for different clients. In total, there are less than 40 users, using this solution. 

We definitely plan to increase usage and continue using Zabbix.

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

Our customers like Zabbix because it's an open-source tool, but integration with other tools is not that easy. The company that I work for employs talented people and a good integration team who can get the end-to-end implementation and integration done properly. 

Zabbix is basically network monitoring software. Often, we are working with various solutions that we are attempting to integrate with Zabbix, and at the same time, we're trying to integrate a couple of bots to take automation to the next level. 

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RR
Principal Technical Consultant at CIBER

We - msp - use this solution for enterprise-wide monitoring and alerting for network devices, appliances, Linux, Windows, Exadata, ODAs, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL databases.

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Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

We needed a tool to know what the space inside of the infrastructure is like. My work was to use Zabbix to get information about the IT infrastructure in the village or in the towns that are very far from the headquarters. I had to use Zabbix to provide information with maps that the IT was working and so that the headquarters can see in real-time what the healyh of the IT infrastructure we had deployed in the electrical network is.

After this experience, I tried Zabbix in african organization based in my country and it was used to monitor the IT infrastructures in three countries, cameroon, benin and ivory coast. For the moment, Zabbix is not yet very popular here but I really appreciate it and really want to make people know that it's very simple to use. 

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

We are using Zabbix as our network monitoring solution. We are now trying to understand how to use the service assurance functionality, as we would like to leverage Zabbix for this task.

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

Primarily we are using an on-premise installation, and just now we are exploring the cloud installation. It's basically the same one. It's a pre-production and production environment. We use the on-premises for testing, and we have the one with the cloud installation also.

We are using this solution for monitoring our internal network and infrastructure in the company, and also for monitoring a couple of our customers' installations. Not only their network but also their services, and to reduce consumption.

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

We use this solution to monitor, install and configure our networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services.

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TS
Chief Revenue Officer at paramaah it services

We are implementing this solution for our clients. 

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

The solution can be used to monitor both on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

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

I was using Zabbix as a monitoring tool at my previous job, although I have left that company and am no longer using this type of product. We were using it for monitoring routers and a few thousand other devices. We had visibility as to their status.

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MD
Monitoring Manager at SkyToll, a. s.

To monitoring our prod, pre-prod, and test environments.

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

Monitor systems and networks devices and web applications. Increase monitoring by including powershell script and automation on incidence responses.

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Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

In my primary experience with this solution, Zabbix was used to monitor the IT infrastructures of a SCADA system in electrical substations. It was about network supervision of routers and switches that are used to communicate with electricity installations through RTU (Remote Terminal Unit).

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

My primary use case is switch and database monitoring.

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

This is a network monitoring solution that I was playing around with to see if it would meet my needs.

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

We are using Zabbix just to monitor our small network out here.

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it_user1005354 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at Fujitsu

Infrastructure monitoring.

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

We use Ubuntu for the distribution of our products and our web application firewall. Previously, I have also used a desktop version of Ubuntu on my laptop. We use this operating system for our Zabbix server as well, for monitoring, testing, and so on. 

We mostly use a server version, so it's only a command console. There's no graphical interface. 

This solution is deployed both on-premise and on cloud. 

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

Before the deployment of Zabbix, we experienced some delays on our internet connection, we decided to deploy it and we registered all our network devices, such as switches. We turned on the firewalls in Zabbix. We linked Zabbix to Grafana to receive a more accurate graph.

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AD
Junior Network Engineer at Easy Systems

We use this solution to monitor our network devices.

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

I primarily use this solution in some of our different monitoring systems, including our different servers, and applications. We use it for the maintenance of the main server in the laboratory.

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it_user1000593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at SON Corporate Group
  • OS monitoring with SNMP or Zabbix agent (Windows(server and client), Linux and mac)
  • Database monitoring with Zabbix agent (mariadb-oracle)
  • Device monitoring whit SNMP (Cisco devices, Mikrotik and firewalls like sophos nad juniper)
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FK
IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our company works with the health ministry in our country. We implement the solution for them and they use it as a monitoring solution in order to watch trends and server patterns, etc.

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

We use Zabbix for monitoring server network equipment. The solution is deployed on-premises.

We have 10 technical engineers using the solution.

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

We are using Zabbix for monitoring our servers and to display network traffic.

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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.