Zabbix Overview

Zabbix is an enterprise-grade, open-source network monitoring platform that helps organizations monitor their entire IT infrastructure in one system. Zabbix offers flexible deployment models, both on-premise and in the cloud, and provides IT professionals with centralized tools and dashboards to monitor network and server infrastructure, cloud deployments, APIs, websites, services, applications, and IoT devices and sensors.

Key Zabbix Features and Capabilities

• Metric Collection: Zabbix provides agentless monitoring and supports a variety of protocols for remote monitoring and metric collection.
• Problem Detection: Zabbix offers advanced, automatic problem detection using real-time metrics with flexible threshold settings, multiple severity levels, and features such as anomaly detection, trend prediction, and root cause analysis. Zabbix also supports intelligent problem classification, real-time export to third-party systems, and manual issue suppression.
• Business Monitoring: Zabbix helps organizations visualize, monitor, and intelligently manage their infrastructure by collecting diverse metrics through various methods, detecting problems with smart thresholds and machine learning, and alerting through multiple channels.
• Alerting: Zabbix provides multi-channel alerting to notify organizations of issues, including alerting systems like VictorOPS, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, SIGNL4, as well as communication platforms such as Slack, MS Teams, and Telegram. It also supports integration with external messaging, ITSM, or ticketing systems through webhooks.
• Security: Zabbix supports TLS encryption for communication between its components, with configurable encryption methods, certificate and pre-shared key options, and the ability to store sensitive data in an external vault.