# Zabbix

Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.

Repository: https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zabbix
Homepage: https://www.zabbix.com/
Language: Go Template
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: zabbix, monitoring, alerting, metrics, network-monitoring, application-monitoring
Last push: 2026-08-26T13:30:46+00:00
Link (homepage): https://www.zabbix.com/
Link (site_page): https://www.zabbix.com/features
Link (site_page): https://www.zabbix.com/integrations
Link (site_page): https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual
Link (site_page): https://www.zabbix.com/integrations?cat=applications

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4570, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6313, forks 1256 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:41.667904+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: monitoring, alerting, analytics, data-visualization, tracing
- domain: monitoring, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-computing, networking, self-hosted, iot
- platform: windows, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: observability, metrics-collection, network-monitoring, infrastructure-monitoring, agent-based, agentless, snmp, enterprise, distributed-monitoring, agpl, devops, linux, macos, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- zabbix/zabbix (main) score 77
- zabbix/zabbix-docker (infra) score 95
- zabbix/community-templates (plugin) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.667904+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:46:12.814382+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.667904+00:00, sha bd281a0820ff)
  - homepage: https://www.zabbix.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:46.215237+00:00, sha db165090b3d2)
  - site_page: https://www.zabbix.com/features (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:46.218138+00:00, sha 853058b98c48)
  - site_page: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:46.223020+00:00, sha 315d351fe11f)
  - site_page: https://www.zabbix.com/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:46.221085+00:00, sha a57384af800a)
  - site_page: https://www.zabbix.com/integrations?cat=applications (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:46.225235+00:00, sha a57384af800a)
  - site_page: https://www.zabbix.com/integrations?cat=services (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:46.227051+00:00, sha a57384af800a)
  - site_page: https://www.zabbix.com/integrations?cat=databases (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:46.228751+00:00, sha a57384af800a)
  - site_page: https://www.zabbix.com/subscriptions (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:46.230495+00:00, sha 45affca2c16e)
  - site_page: https://www.zabbix.com/integration_services (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:46.232900+00:00, sha c4fa4e038b4c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.