Zabbix is an

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software tool to monitor IT infrastructure such as

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, servers,

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s, and cloud services. Zabbix collects and displays basic metrics.

Characteristics

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 Affero General Public License version 3 (before 7.0.0, under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2), Zabbix is

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that does not require an additional license to use any of its features. Even though Zabbix is

software, it is a closed development software product, developed by Zabbix LLC based in

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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 focuses on the usage of existing tools and functionality as well as proprietary solutions to achieve a scalable monitoring solution.

History

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.

References

* 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'' * Liefting, Nathan and van Baekel, Brian (August 2024)
Zabbix 7 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook: Explore the new features of Zabbix 7 for designing, building, and maintaining your Zabbix setup, 3rd Edition
* Olups, Rihards (August 2016)
Zabbix Network Monitoring: Discover a smarter way to monitor your network, Second Edition
* Alves, Luciano (June 2015)
Zabbix Performance Tuning: Tune and Optimize Zabbix to Maximize Performance
* Olups, Rihards, Dalle Vache, Andrea and Uytterhoeven, Patrik (February 2017)
Zabbix: Enterprise Network Monitoring Made Easy
* Uytterhoeven, Patrik (March 2015)
Zabbix Cookbook: Over 70 hands-on recipes to get your infrastructure up and running with Zabbix

External links

* * {{github, https://github.com/zabbix Internet Protocol based network software Free network management software Multi-agent network management software 2001 software System monitors Management systems Systems management

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