Open source monitoring for networks, servers, VMs, applications and cloud, using agents, SNMP and templates with trigger-based alerting; Zabbix Cloud is the hosted option.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Open source
- Yes (AGPL-3.0)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2001
- Status
- Active
- Website
- zabbix.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Server and infrastructure monitoring checklist
10 of 10 confirmed in Zabbix's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Infrastructure.
- Host agent Yes
- Agentless checks Yes
- Windows hosts Yes
- Auto-discovery Yes
- Process and service checks Yes
- Log collection Yes
- Containers Yes
- Alerting with notifications Yes
- Dashboards Yes
- Plugins or integrations Yes
Checked against: zabbix.com
Network monitoring checklist
7 of 10 confirmed in Zabbix's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Network.
- SNMP polling Yes
- Flow analysis Not confirmed
- Device discovery Yes
- Topology maps Yes
- Latency and path Yes
- Bandwidth graphs Yes
- Syslog and traps Yes
- Configuration backup Not confirmed
- Alerting Yes
- Wireless Not confirmed
No NetFlow analysis or device config backup described.
Checked against: zabbix.com, zabbix.com (2)
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