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Zabbix pros and cons

Vendor: Zabbix
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

Zabbix offers flexible licensing, providing great adaptability for companies.
Zabbix provides significant integration capabilities and efficient APIs.
Alerting and alarm monitoring features in Zabbix are highly valuable.
Zabbix is known for its stability and scalability, with effective monitoring capabilities.
Zabbix includes features like network traffic monitoring and threshold settings using historical data.

CONS

There are many areas for improvement, particularly dashboards and reports functionalities, which could be more user-friendly and customizable.
The scalability has issues when dealing with a large number of nodes, and more scalability features are needed for different use cases.
Documentation is often inconsistent and lacks depth between versions, making it challenging for first-time users, especially during troubleshooting.
Integrations could be improved, as there is a need for better connections with other platforms and cloud-specific monitoring capabilities.
Automation capabilities are lacking, and there are difficulties in implementing auto-discovery and agent deployment processes.
 

Zabbix Pros review quotes

KamranBhatti - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Nov 10, 2025
The alerting systems are very good in Zabbix, and it has helped us to reduce time for reaction.
SY
Network Engineer at Ogma Consulting
Aug 5, 2025
Zabbix is fully scalable, with no limitations in that regard.
AR
CTO at Oic
Jan 15, 2025
The resource usage, CPU utilization, disk usage, network monitoring, network performance, and alerting features are invaluable.
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IK
CTO at Four Nine Agency
Apr 28, 2025
Zabbix has high scalability. I would rate it a nine out of ten.
B Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology Zara & Inditex at Cenomi
Jan 8, 2025
I use the solution to provide a perfect environment for remote connectivity with my clients.
Simon KONAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Network engineer at DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE DES IMPÔTS - DGI
Aug 27, 2024
The best feature is that Zabbix can report everything, and everything in Zabbix is free.
BeeYospiam - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Specialist at NTT Security
Apr 5, 2024
Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements.
TK
Systems Specialist at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Apr 19, 2024
It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed.
ASM Naushad Alam - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 16, 2022
The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems.
KT
IT Manager at CLOUDJET GROUP
Aug 18, 2023
Zabbix is good for discovery.
 

Zabbix Cons review quotes

KamranBhatti - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Nov 10, 2025
The potential and customization is a little difficult because you have to learn scripts.
SY
Network Engineer at Ogma Consulting
Aug 5, 2025
The reporting is lacking because this is an open-source tool, and nowadays, management's expectation is that the reports should be of high quality and every information should be presented in a concise manner.
AR
CTO at Oic
Jan 15, 2025
The only issue I can note is that it's Linux-based, and Linux documentation is not the best.
Learn what your peers think about Zabbix. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
893,221 professionals have used our research since 2012.
IK
CTO at Four Nine Agency
Apr 28, 2025
The initial setup could be complex if you don't have templates. If creating templates from scratch, it's quite difficult, but if you are using already pre-created templates and setups for your needs, it looks very good.
B Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology Zara & Inditex at Cenomi
Jan 8, 2025
When it comes to troubleshooting or technical support, there is usually some time lag.
Simon KONAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Network engineer at DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE DES IMPÔTS - DGI
Aug 27, 2024
The only issue we have had with Zabbix is when we decided to make an update or upgrade.
BeeYospiam - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Specialist at NTT Security
Apr 5, 2024
The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus.
TK
Systems Specialist at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Apr 19, 2024
Sometimes, the documentation is a little bit written in Estonia – a country in Europe. The language barrier and translation to English can sometimes make it difficult to understand what they're trying to get at. It's just a language thing.
ASM Naushad Alam - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 16, 2022
The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes.
KT
IT Manager at CLOUDJET GROUP
Aug 18, 2023
I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE.