Zabbix
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Zabbix is an open-source software tool to monitor IT infrastructure such as networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Zabbix is free software that does not require an additional license to use any of its features. Even though Zabbix is open-source software, it is a closed development software product, developed by Zabbix LLC based in Riga, Latvia.
Early in its history, Zabbix was described as simple to set up compared to other monitoring solutions.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> However, later it was considered by some to need a significant amount of manual configuration.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.Template:Cn
See also
References
Further reading
- Vidmar, Anže (March 12, 2007). ZABBIX: State-of-the-art network monitoring Linux.com
- Ramm, Mark (March 15, 2005). Template:Usurped, Linux Magazine
- Schroder, Carla (May 24, 2005). Monitor Your Net with Free, High-Performance ZABBIX Template:Webarchive, 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