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Zabbix

Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/zabbix/zabbix · homepage · Go Template · AGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

77/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4570
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

6313 stars · 1256 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open-source distributed monitoring and observability platform for tracking the performance and availability of networks, servers, VMs, containers, applications, and cloud services. It provides agent-based and agentless metric collection, real-time problem detection with root cause analysis, alerting via multiple channels, and visualization through graphs, dashboards, and network maps.

Use cases

  • monitor servers and network devices
  • set up alerts when a service goes down
  • monitor docker and kubernetes clusters
  • track cloud infrastructure metrics on aws and azure
  • watch database and application performance
  • monitor snmp devices like switches and routers
  • build dashboards for infrastructure health
  • monitor iot sensors and remote sites

When to choose

  • you need a mature, battle-tested monitoring solution with 20+ years of development and hundreds of official integration templates
  • you want agent-based and agentless collection (SNMP, HTTP, IPMI, JMX) in one platform
  • you need distributed monitoring across data centers with proxies and multitenancy
  • you want built-in alerting, escalation, and notification channels without gluing together separate tools
  • you prefer no per-device or per-metric licensing costs

When to avoid

  • you need lightweight, cloud-native metrics with a pull model and PromQL ecosystem - Prometheus may fit better
  • you want log aggregation and full-text log search as a primary use case - ELK/OpenSearch are purpose-built for that
  • you prefer a config-as-code, declarative setup over a web-UI-driven configuration model
  • you need deep application-level tracing/APM - dedicated tools like Jaeger or Grafana Tempo are better suited

Facets

application · maturity stable

monitoring alerting analytics data-visualization tracing monitoring infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing networking self-hosted iot windows self-hosted cross-platform observability metrics-collection network-monitoring infrastructure-monitoring agent-based agentless snmp enterprise distributed-monitoring agpl devops linux macos docker web-server

10 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
zabbix/zabbixmain77
zabbix/zabbix-dockerinfra95
zabbix/community-templatesplugin76

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="zabbix/zabbix")

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