Zabbix

Avantages

Facile à déployer très intuitif et simple d’utilisation

Inconvénients

Pour le moment c’est l’ajout des boitier Watchguard et les plugins personnalisés comme pour pfsense.

Avantages

The tool has a very simple and intuitive handling so it is not complicated to implement or operate it

Inconvénients

many people use it as a free tool and have generated a bad reputation but in reality there is Zabbix Licensed that has many more functionalities

Avantages

We use Zabbix to monitor all VM on our network. The most useful feature is the ability to configure the notifications (disk/cpu usage, server restarts and availability) to use Telegram, which mean we are notified almost immediately after the event. Group notifications work faultlessly. The user Zabbix forum and Telegram/Discord channels provide a great support from other Zabbix users. We found answers to all our questions.

Inconvénients

There is a slightly steep curve in sense of understanding the templates and triggers, but once this is understood, adding more network devices is a matter of minutes.

Avantages

It is a pretty polished product that was easy to implement.

Inconvénients

Doesn't offer same flexibility you get from open source alternatives.

Avantages

Rich in features, a lot of possible Intergrations, out of box templates and multi-tenancy support, powerful API, supports most monitoring protocols for networks, servers, services, applications and IoT. Can monitor pretty much everything using standard protocols of custom scripts.

Inconvénients

Initial setup requires a lot of work and a lot of optimization is needed in the long run. The documentation isn't so clear for first timers, especially when common issues arise during installation or post installation administration.

Alternatives envisagées 

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Avantages

Monitoring, sending alerts by email, integration with other tools, solid community

Inconvénients

Zabbix could improve the UI but it's a very good tool

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Avantages

We have been using Zabbix for the last 2 years to monitor a mixture of cloud and on-premise servers and it seems t work quite well

Inconvénients

Setting up Zabbix was a bit of a nightmare but one setup it seems to function quite well.

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Avantages

- Easy installation on both linux operating systems
- It has many templates for integration with networking systems
- Complete infrastructure and web services tool
- Very easy to modify according to the need of the company

Inconvénients

- Delay in integrating with new services, such as the Slack tool and cloud services such as AWS
- Difficult procedure to backup all configurations
- Difficult process to migrate from one version to another
- Does not have multiple MFA authentication

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Avantages

Zabbix is open-source, and you can use it for free. So there's no excuse not to use it. It's very comprehensive so you can do almost any type of monitoring. We monitor various services, such as Nginx, MariaDB, etc. Plus, we can set up custom monitoring to keep an eye on things that are unique to our needs. Zabbix can also perform actions/commands, so you can set up a monitoring and response system to ensure your services are up and running.

Inconvénients

Zabbiz is feature-rich, but that comes with a steep learning curve. It's not bad if you know what you're doing, but it can be a bit of a challenge for beginners.

Avantages

Easy deployment, good documentation, good user interface and great features.

Inconvénients

Some configurations might be difficult if you don’t read a lot of documentation.

Avantages

Zabbix has clear advantages over other similar platforms; among them, we have that it is an open-source platform that opens several options, such as customization according to the specific needs of the organization, additionally and not least is the cost as it has no associated licenses so for organizations with low budget is extremely attractive.

Inconvénients

While it is true that the dashboard and user interface are very intuitive, the tool lacks some features that could facilitate work when creating reports and statistics; the option to export traffic graphs with image format is not available, and even export statistical data in plain text format for reporting.

Avantages

In order to guarantee your infrastructure's seamless operation and avoid downtime, monitoring is crucial. You can monitor crucial metrics like server performance, network traffic, and application health with tools like Zabbix and get alerts when something is off. You can do this to find problems early on and fix them before they become serious.

Inconvénients

I did not get any cons but i think but setting it up and optimising it can take some time and a thorough grasp of the system.

Avantages

Graph feature is awesome to share the actual incident duration with clients.

Inconvénients

Need to give auto remove notification of last two months.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

The ease of implementing plugins and extending it to our use cases

Inconvénients

Does at times require diving into its documentation for certain things

Avantages

The educational material provided for IT professionals to learn how to work with the tool is excellent. The number of functions that the tool provides in IT service provider environments is wide. And the amount of integrations is huge.

Inconvénients

The learning curve for being a network administrator using Zabbix is not low. Network administration is not an easy task and the Zabbix tool does not make the task any easier.

Avantages

It was very straightforward to get started using the software. Zabbix is open source monitoring platform and there are a number of different ways to quickly install the product. All that is required is a compatible linux distribution and persistence layer. I used Centos and PostgreSQL. A few commands later and I had Zabbix up and running. Our primary goal was to use Zabbix for network monitoring, although it does offer support for almost any type of resource. Since the project has been around for a while there are a large number of plugins available for both hardware and software applications. However most of these are fairly generic and you will need to write (or pay) for advanced integrations). If you need support, zabbix offers multiple tiers of support depending on your SLA requirements.

Inconvénients

Lack of automated backend processing to keep the database tuned to peak performance. As mentioned before, if you need a custom integration, or a more complete integration for an existing solution, you'll need learn how to customize zabbix. Depending on your team's technical ability, this might be a challenging endeavor, as the provided documentation can be lacking. While you have the ability to generate reports, Zabbix doesn't support all file formats.

Avantages

- Extensibility: you can add your own triggers and monitor nearly any aspect of nearly any system;
- Integration with notification mechanisms (Slack, SMS, Telegram, Email) allows to deliver warnings to responsible person and eliminate the issue;
- Affordable and widespread solution: you'll have no issues finding personnel to configure and support the solution in-house.

Inconvénients

- The solution might look overwhelming to non-tech people at first, but it's still ergonomic.

Avantages

The customization of triggers. Easily configure any trigger like a watchdog for any process, event or other. Fast email delivery, integration with other collaboration tools. Fresh and clean dashboard (also configurable).

Inconvénients

A more interactive dashboard. While you are watching it, there are intervals of refreshing the data, but I couldn`t find anything less than 15 seconds. Which, in all honesty is fine, but in a fast paced environment, it would be useful to have it "live-stream" without any delay. Especially in networking aspect.

Avantages

Easy to install agent which can be installed on 100's of client servers. The zabbix agent has low memory usage, so it can be installed on low spec web servers. The ability to create custom metrics and setup different triggers and notifications is great.

Inconvénients

Ease of use isn't great and it takes a long period of adoption to get your head around how items, triggers and notifications work. The error messages you receive aren't particularly user friendly and are more suited to developers rather than operations teams. Housekeeping doesn't stop us ending up with huge database tables in Zabbix.

Avantages

Very powerfull once configured
Lovely php based gui
Almost infinate amounts of host templates to import
User based views, also via LDAP
Alerts
Network maps
Graphs (for the managers)

Inconvénients

Tricky to perform initial installation
Some templates may require 3rd party plugins from github

Avantages

Pretty simple installation, initial configuration and deployment of monitoring agents quite fast and efficient

Inconvénients

The large number of agents distributed in the elements to monitor, create a heavy load of TCP traffic in the network, which by its nature of SNORT makes conventional packets that travel through TCP also, have relevant delays

Avantages

Zabbix is free, easy to use with many templates

Inconvénients

I don't see any negative points, Zabbix is complete

Avantages

In addition to offering me the guarantee that the network works perfectly at all times, Zabbix can also count on its ability to track, control and monitor the transfer of data, as well as prevent and solve problems in the bandwidth. Another aspect that I like This system is that I can store data in Json format, which is very important for other applications to use.

Inconvénients

I really like this platform, however I have to express that its implementation can be a bit complicated at the beginning for people with limited programming knowledge.

Avantages

* Easy to retrieve data from external systems.
* Gathers all the data in one place
* Simple to use.

Inconvénients

* Performance decrease on medium scale traffic.
* Configuring new environment is difficult.
* Screens design is old

Avantages

Zabbix is very flexible and can support just about any monitoring scenario. I have been using it since version 1.8 and it has helped me be proactive in solving issues before they arise. It is the single most useful piece of software I use day in and day out.

Inconvénients

The learning curve can be a bit steep for new users. Especially those lacking programming or linux skills. Grasping the concept of writing trigger expressions can take a while; but they are very flexible and powerful.