Is it just me or is the learning curve a lot greater with Zabbix? The error messages seem extremely vague or completely useless. The web GUI fields don’t have proper validation. They moved a lot of things around in the 6.4 version and now googling a solution gives me out of date info. The template network sensors are picking up about 20 ethernet interfaces on windows VMs in HyperV and I cant select just the one that I want to monitor (I guess I have to write my own sensor for that?).
I was demo’d Zabbix by a friend who has 39k+ sensors working on less hardware than my 1000 sensors use in PRTG, and the price difference is huge… So I really want this to work for me but I spent the whole day today feeling uneasy about it.
What are your guys thoughts?
I used Zabbix for about 3 years in our environment before the pandemic necessitated that we have a more mobile solution for RMM and we rolled our SNMP monitoring into our RMM.
I had all the same complaints that you have and honestly I spent more time maintain our zabbix server and nodes than I did on actionable alerts from them. When we switched I was ready to make the switch for sure