Zabbix is an
open-source
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software tool to monitor IT infrastructure such as
networks
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,
servers,
virtual machine
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s, and
cloud service
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s. Zabbix collects and displays basic metrics.
Description
Zabbix is designed primarily as an IT infrastructure monitoring tool. New features are generally released every six months to major versions and every 1.5 years to
LTS versions.
Released under the terms of
GNU General Public License version 2
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, Zabbix is
free software
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that does not require a license to use any of its features. Even though Zabbix is
open-source
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software, it is a closed development software product, developed by Zabbix LLC based in
Riga
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,
Latvia
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.
Early in its history, Zabbix was described as simple to set up compared to other monitoring solutions. However, later it was considered by some to need a significant amount of manual configuration. As an open-source product however Zabbix focusses on the usage of existing tools and functionality as well as proprietary solutions to achieve a scalable monitoring solution.
Development
The first stable version, 1.0, was released in 2004. Since the first stable version was released as 1.0, Zabbix versioning has used minor version numbers to denote major releases. Each minor release implements many new features, while change level releases mostly introduce bugfixes.
Zabbix version numbering scheme has changed over time. While the first two stable branches were 1.0 and 1.1, after 1.1 it was decided to use odd numbers for development versions and even numbers for stable versions. As a result, 1.3 followed 1.1 as a development update to be released as 1.4.
See also
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Comparison of network monitoring systems
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References
Further reading
* Vidmar, Anže (March 12, 2007)
ZABBIX: State-of-the-art network monitoring''Linux.com''
* Ramm, Mark (March 15, 2005). , ''Linux Magazine''
* Schroder, Carla (May 24, 2005)
Monitor Your Net with Free, High-Performance ZABBIX ''Enterprise Networking Planet''
* Wallen, Jack (March 8, 2022)
Network monitoring tools every admin should know''Tech Republic''
External links
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* {{github, https://github.com/zabbix
Internet Protocol based network software
Free network management software
Multi-agent systems
2001 software
System monitors
Management systems
Systems management