Zabbix-a monitoring solution

Zabbix is a comprehensive, open-source monitoring solution that enhances the efficiency and reliability of hardware, software, services, and web applications.

InTTrust, a certified Zabbix partner, provides an open-source monitoring solution that autonomously detects threats and issues, alerting you or resolving them independently. This liberates your engineers, enhances service quality, and boosts business efficiency.

Keep control of your infrastructure by collecting any metric from any source

Zabbix enables you to collect metrics but isn’t limited to:

Network devices
Cloud services, containers, virtual machines
OS level monitoring
Log files
Databases
Applications
Services
IoT sensors
Web page monitoring
HTTP/HTTPS endpoint monitoring
Support for a full range of industry-standard protocols
Collect data from external API end-points

High-intensity data collection:

Minimal polling interval is 1 second

Scheduling of metric collection:

Ability to override polling intervals for specific periods
Data throttling for high-frequency monitoring

Collect data of any type:

Numeric
Text
Binary
Structured JSON, XML, CSV, and other data formats

Log file monitoring:

Collect and filter log file entries
Collect event log entries on Windows environments
Retrieve the number of matching log file entries

Native high performance Agent for all Operating Systems and hardware platforms:

Negligible performance overhead
Push or pull data delivery

Flexible scheduling intervals:

Easy to extend with plugins or external scripts
Immune to communication problems (in-memory or on-disk data buffering)
Backward compatibility for effortless upgrades
Access to Windows WMI and performance counters
Can report to multiple Zabbix Servers for redundancy and HA
Strong TLS or shared key encryption for communications
Deploy Zabbix agent as a package, use MSI or command line installer on Windows or deploy pre-compiled agent binaries

Deploy Zabbix agent on any operating system:

Any Linux distribution
Solaris
AIX
macOS
BSD
Windows

Zabbix supports a whole range of various protocols for remote monitoring of services:

Web monitoring
Scriptable synthetic monitoring
SNMP (v1/2c/3) polling and trapping
Java application monitoring
IPMI
SSH/Telnet checks
ODBC monitoring
ICMP and TCP checks
Prometheus
Easy to extend using external scripts or plugins
Collect data from HTTP endpoints
Modbus and MQTT protocol support

Synthetic monitoring helps with the creation of complex scenarios for reliable monitoring of WEB applications and APIs:

Obtain any performance metric from your endpoint
Define Q/A tests to emulate real-life transactions

Monitor websites and web applications by defining flexible multi-step browser-based scenarios:

Capture screenshots of the current website state
Collect and visualize website performance and availability metrics
Extract and monitor any data from your web application
Analyze the collected data and receive alerts related to any discovered problems

Zabbix data collection can be easily extended using:

CLI utility for pushing any data

External scripts written in any scripting language:

Synthetic monitoring for complex WEB and HTTP scenarios

Learn how to extend the Zabbix agent and write your own Go plugins by visiting Zabbix Developer Center:

Learn from a selection of examples provided by Zabbix developers
Build your first Zabbix plugin by following a step-by-step tutorial

Normalize and transform any kind of data before storing it:

Unstructured text with trims, replace functions and regular expressions
JSONPath, XPath expressions and CSV to JSON transformation
Calculate the delta between values
Perform calculations with numeric values

Numeral system transformations:

Validate your data and check if the received value is in a specified value range or contains errors
Perform custom data transformations with JavaScript
Discard repeating values with throttling
Extract Prometheus exporter data

Collect data in bulk and use it to populate multiple dependent metrics:

Transform and extract only the required data
Reduce the number of connections/queries/calls to the endpoint
Reduce the network bandwidth by collecting and transforming metrics in bulk
Discard initial bulk data and store only the resulting metrics

Detect problems instantly

Forget about tracking your metrics manually. With Zabbix you can detect problem states within the incoming metric flow automatically:

High-performance problem detection in real-time
Highly flexible definition options
Separate problem and problem resolution conditions
Multiple severity levels

Mark problems as cause or symptom events:

Root cause analysis
Flapping protection
Anomaly detection
Trend prediction
Detected problems can be classified using tags for smarter alerting
Real-time export of detected problem events to 3rd party systems (Elastic, Splunk, etc.)
Manual problem suppression indefinitely or until a specific point in time

While having thresholds for problem detection is nice, it’s more efficient to react proactively.

Zabbix predictive functions can help you achieve that goal:

Forecasting a value for early alerting
Predicting time left until reaching a problem threshold

Defining problem thresholds manually is not always efficient. In dynamic environments where the baseline values can periodically change, it is important to automatically calculate a reference point against which the problem threshold will be calculated.

Zabbix Baseline monitoring enables you to do just that:

Detect anomalies based on analysis of history data in real-time
Get powerful insights using baseline monitoring

Get alerted on critical issues

Use multiple messaging channels to notify the responsible person or people about the different kinds of events occurring in your environment:

Alerting systems:
- VictorOPS
- Opsgenie
- Pagerduty
- SIGNL4
- And more
Email
SMS for reliable alerts using USB modems
Online SMS gateways

Communication platforms:

Slack
MS Teams
Telegram
ms
chat
And more
Webhooks for integration with external messaging, ITSM or ticketing systems

Define different messages for different messaging channels. You can either utilize the default message templates or create and customize your own message template:

Customize messages based on issue type and the role of the recipient
Enrich messages with any runtime and inventory information
Send scheduled PDF reports for insight and long-term analysis of data

Define escalation scenarios of varying complexity depending on the required workflow. From simple notifications and escalations to different users, to delayed notifications and automatic issue remediation:

Immediately inform users about new problems:

Proactively execute remote scripts
Repeat notifications until the problem is resolved
Delay notifications and remote commands
Escalate problems to other user groups
Different escalation paths for acknowledged and unacknowledged problems
Send a recovery message to all of the involved parties
Unlimited number of escalation steps

With Zabbix you can not only receive a notification about a problem but also automatically resolve it. A remediation script or command can be executed to attempt and resolve the issue:

Execute a remediation script to:

Restart a service
Manage your cloud resources
Perform automatic resource rescaling
Executing any other custom logic

Gain additional insights and extend observability through powerful data visualization

Define widget-based dashboards displaying relevant information:

Large selection of many different widgets
Simple drag-and-drop placement and scaling of widgets
Each widget is highly customizable to fit your needs
Display metrics, problems, infrastructure and geo maps on your dashboards
Display your current business service SLA information on your dashboards

Access your metrics, problems, reports and maps with a click of a button.

Define custom graphs or access ad-hoc graphs with a click of a button:

Multiple graph types
Displaying of problems on the graphs
Flexible time navigator
Display single or multiple metrics with a click of a button
Use of trend data for long-term data overview
Display history data for any period
Display aggregated data graphs
Export graphs as images

Select from multiple geo-map providers
Display a geographical overview of your environment on Zabbix dashboards
Access any of your monitoring targets from the geo-map
Group your monitoring targets into a cluster on the geo-map
Follow the status of individual monitoring targets or the whole cluster

Display statuses of your elements together with real-time data to get a detailed overview of your infrastructure on a Zabbix map:

Ability to display any data in real-time on your maps
Easy drag-and-drop map element deployment
Clone and modify existing maps
Execute scripts within your infrastructure from the map screen
Create multi-level maps with sub-maps
Context-based interaction with map elements
Create linkages between map elements
Create nested maps – change the scope of your current view with a click of a button

Receive scheduled PDF reports providing useful statistics of your environment:

Get reports delivered straight to your Inbox
Can be scheduled for daily, weekly, or monthly delivery
Notify your customers about their infrastructure health

Now any Zabbix dashboard can be turned into a PDF report!

Extend the native Zabbix frontend functionality by developing your frontend widgets and modules:

Develop custom ways to visualize your data tailor-made for your business
Create custom views of the collected data and generated events with custom frontend modules
Enrich Zabbix frontend with your corporate branding

Learn how to extend Zabbix frontend and create your widgets and modules by visiting Zabbix Developer Center:

Learn from a selection of examples provided by Zabbix developers
Write your first Zabbix module or widget by following a step-by-step tutorial

Utilize a single dashboard for comprehensive management of your entire infrastructure

Zabbix web UI provides multiple ways of presenting a visual overview of your IT environment:

Widget-based multi-page dashboards
Easy drag-and-drop widget placement
Configure automatic dashboard refresh intervals
Ability to clone an existing dashboard
Private and public dashboards
Flexible graphs capable of displaying regular and aggregate data
Create map hierarchy trees and use them to navigate through your infrastructure
Execute a script directly from a dashboard and remediate an issue or display additional information

Each of the dashboard elements is extremely flexible and supports multiple view, filters and respects user permissions:

Filter and display only the required data
Customize your widgets to display data at different granularity levels
User permissions are respected when displaying data on dashboards

Deploy Zabbix as the central point of monitoring for multiple organizations:

Utilize user groups to isolate tenants from each other
Define user roles to control user access to different Zabbix functions
Create unique dashboards, maps and templates for different tenants
Keep your tenants up to date with their environment by configuring scheduled reports

Automatically collect and store inventory information:

Use collected metrics to provide inventory information about your hosts
Combine native inventory data collection with Zabbix API to provide additional inventory data
Get an overview of your overall inventory by grouping your hosts based on inventory information
Provide and keep track of geo-map monitoring target coordinates
Dynamically update existing inventory information from collected metrics

Keep track of KPI’s with business service monitoring

Correlate existing and incoming problems and perform root cause analysis:

Prevent floods of secondary issues and display only the root cause
Define flexible problem correlation logic
Close any related incoming problems if the root cause is not resolved
Close existing problems if a root cause problem has been detected
Define your service elements with hierarchical service trees

Define services and create service trees to perform impact analysis:

Define and monitor business service SLA levels
Simulate an outage to see business-level impact
Multiple service status calculation algorithms
Define service weights for custom service status calculation
Calculate your business service availability based on service weights or number and percentage of unavailable services

Business services provide full support for multi-tenant environments with a flexible permission schema:

Define roles with limited access to particular services
Secure your roles with read or write permissions for your service trees

Define services and service components with custom SLA calculation logic:

Analyze status of related services to perform SLA calculation
Decrease SLA when either single or all of the components of a service are in a problem state
Create service trees for complex SLA calculations of individual services
Access daily/weekly/monthly/yearly overviews of your service SLAs

Seamlessly deploy Zabbix within your infrastructure

Integrate Zabbix with existing system

Out of the box monitoring for leading software and hardware vendors:

Cisco
HPE
Microsoft
IBM
VMware
Meraki
Juniper
F5

And many more

With Zabbix you can improve monitoring and problem remediation workflows for your DevOPS and ITOps teams. Integrate Zabbix with your existing systems:

Monitor your Docker containers
Web server backends – IIS, Apache, Nginx and more
Database backends such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL, MongoDB and more
Monitor any operating system- Linux, Windows, Solaris, BSD, MacOS and more
Cloud services such as AWS, Amazon cloud, Google cloud and more
IP telephony services

Out of the box integrations with leading ITSM systems:

ServiceNow
Zendesk
Jira ServiceDesk
ManageEngine ServiceDesk
TOPdesk
SolarWinds Service Desk
And many more

Integrations are provided in a form of customizable JavaScript webhooks:

Customize an existing integration or create a new one from scratch
Import an integration from the community share
Export your custom integration and share it with the Zabbix community

Automatic discovery and monitoring of Kubernetes nodes and pods
Create dashboard to visualize the status of your Kubernetes nodes and pod

Kubernetes monitoring also enables you to monitor Kubernetes components, such as:

kube-controller-manager
kube-apiserver
kube-scheduler
kubelet

Zabbix is also capable of monitoring pods, nodes and Kubernetes components in the Redhat OpenShift container infrastructures.

Platform-agnostic out-of-the-box cloud monitoring:

Connect to any cloud API endpoint over HTTP
Leverage Zabbix discovery features to improve the observability of your cloud environment
Automatically discover and start monitoring your cloud entities and components
Represent your cloud infrastructure in a single pane of glass view with Zabbix maps and dashboards

Zabbix provides out-of-the-box templates for the most popular cloud vendors:

Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OpenStack
Nextcloud

Connect Zabbix to your VMware instance and automatically discover VMware guests, clusters, hypervisors and datastores:

Monitor your VMware endpoints without deploying any additional agent software
Customize the discovered monitoring endpoints and collect additional information

Monitor VMware metrics such as:

VMware alarm status
VMware guest state
VMware guest and hypervisor performance metrics
Datastore IOPS read/write metrics
Datastore performance counters
VMware event log entries
VMware Hypervisor and vSphere Distributed Switch network metrics

Zabbix also provides an official template for VMWare SD-WAN VeloCloud component discovery and monitoring:

Gateway state and utilization
Edge state, uptime, version, and more
Link network statistics
SDWan peers and peers path metrics

Create automation workflows and integrate with other systems using well-documented JSON RPC API:

Automate Zabbix management via API
200+ different methods available
Create new applications to work with Zabbix
Integrate Zabbix with third-party software: Configuration management, ticketing systems
Retrieve and manage configuration and historical data
Create named API tokens with an expiry date for secure access to API

Create custom API scripts to automate your monitoring workflows or integrate Zabbix with 3rd party solutions by using the official Zabbix Python library.

Enterprise grade security

Zabbix supports encrypting any communication stream between different Zabbix components:

All communications between various Zabbix components (such as Zabbix server, proxies, agents and command-line utilities) support TLS protocol
Support for certificate and pre-shared key encryption
Encryption is optional and configurable for individual components
All sensitive information is encrypted and can be stored in an external Vault for additional security
Select from a list of supported encryption algorithms based on your security policy

Zabbix provides a flexible user permission schema which can be efficiently used to manage user permissions within one Zabbix installation or in a distributed environment.

You can define three levels of permissions:

Read-write – a read-write access
Read-only – a read-only access
Deny – access denied

User types are used to define access to administrative functions and to specify default permissions:

Zabbix Users have read-only permissions on collected data and events
Zabbix Admins can manage your monitoring configuration and read the collected data and events
Zabbix Super Admins are capable of managing Zabbix instance configuration, in addition to having Zabbix Admin privileges

Create your own custom user roles with a granular set of permissions for different types of users in your environment. User roles also enable you to Hide or show Zabbix UI elements to fit the needs of your users and customers.

With user Roles, you can:

Limit access to specific UI elements
Limit access to performing specific actions in the UI
Create an allow or deny list for specific API methods

Integrate Zabbix together with your existing authentication mechanisms. Zabbix supports a variety of authentication methods:

Internal Zabbix logins
HTTP authentication
Support for multi-factor authentication
Define your password complexity requirements
LDAP authentication
SAML authentication
Single sign-on authentication
Native integration with Active Directory

With native support for HTTP, LDAP and SAML authentication you can provide an additional layer of security and improve the user experience while working with Zabbix.

Out-of-the-box support of multi-factor authentication enables enterprise-grade security and more flexibility for configuring user authentication methods:

Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) authentication

Once entered, you have the option to hide your sensitive information from prying eyes:

Hide your usernames, passwords, authentication keys and other sensitive information
Hidden information cannot be retrieved via API or configuration export

Deploy an external vault to keep your secrets under tight control:

Unified storage for all your secrets
Strict limitations for accessing the vault

Detailed vault-level audit log

Track changes in your environment by utilizing the Audit log:

Find out which user made changes to any Zabbix entities
Tracks the IP address from which the user logged into Zabbix
Filter the audit log and follow changes made by a specific user on a particular resource
Export full or filtered audit log via API for further analysis

Restrict access to sensitive information by limiting which metrics can be collected in your environment:

Define metric allow and deny lists
Prevent unsanctioned access to sensitive information
Restrict the direction of network communication
Permit connections only to and from specified end-points
Restrict unencrypted connections to your monitoring targets

Deploy in 5 minutes on-premise or in the cloud

Zabbix provides many different ways how you can deploy individual Zabbix components:

Use official packages, docker or cloud images for fast deployment
Use templates to manage the monitoring of thousands of devices, make local overrides if needed
Deploy a PoC environment from a preconfigured virtual machine appliance image

Vast selection of out-of-the-box templates provides the ability to immediately start monitoring your infrastructure:

Use out-of-the-box templates for your devices and systems
Customize existing templates or build new custom templates
Use hundreds of templates built by Zabbix community
Apply for the Professional template building service from the Zabbix team
Templates enable ease of management and automate monitoring for your devices

Zabbix will automatically scan your network and add discovered devices for monitoring:

Discovery of devices having multiple network interfaces
Specify IP address ranges for the network scan
Detect lost devices and define custom offboarding logic

Scan your network hosts for availability by scanning for different services:

Perform simple pings
Check for SNMP availability
Look for a response from the Zabbix agent
Probe for TCP, HTTP, and FTP services

And many more.

Resource discovery enables Zabbix to automatically discover metrics on your monitoring endpoints:

Resource discovery: automatically create items, triggers and graphs for discovered elements on a host
Use resource discovery to automatically create monitoring targets based on the received data

Resource discovery is virtually limitless. Discover entities such as:

Network interfaces
Services
CPUs
File systems
Docker containers
Java application MBeans
SNMP entities
IPMI sensors
Custom components for your in-house application

And much, much more!

Automatically discover your Zabbix agents and start monitoring them immediately:

Populate agents with customizable metadata
Define custom onboarding workflows which will react to different metadata values
React to changes in agent metadata

Define custom device onboarding logic, depending on the agent metadata:

Assign a host to a host group
Apply a monitoring template that matches the discovered service
Notify your administrators
And many more

Define custom device onboarding and offboarding workflow, depending on the device type:

Assign a host to a host group
Apply a monitoring template that matches the discovered service
Notify your administrators
And many more

The Zabbix upgrade process is simple – just deploy the new version of Zabbix Server, Proxy and UI and you are done. No loss of existing data, configuration or functionality:

Support of near zero-downtime upgrades between major versions
Backward and forward compatibility of all Zabbix components within one major release to ensure quick and easy upgrade process
Zabbix agents are backwards compatible with previous major releases

Scale without limits

Add an extra layer of scalability by deploying Zabbix proxies. Scale up to collect millions of metrics from hundreds of thousands of devices, services, applications, and more. Zabbix proxies are easy to deploy and enable unlimited vertical scalability:

Delegate metric collection to Zabbix proxies
Deploy an unlimited amount of Zabbix proxies
Monitor thousands of remote locations, company branches, data centers
Deploy Zabbix proxies from packages, containers or cloud images
Reduce network overhead – traffic between central Zabbix server backend and proxies is compressed!
Stay compliant with the highest security standards by using TLS PSK or certificate encryption with full control of permitted security algorithms

Monitor locations all over the globe! Collect metrics from remote locations securely and prevent data loss even in case of a network outage. By deploying Zabbix proxies you can:

Monitor behind the firewall, DMZ
Collect data even in case of network issues
Remotely run custom scripts on monitoring targets for automatic problem remediation
Distribute your monitoring across an unlimited number of locations all over the globe
Instantly sync configuration changes across your whole Zabbix infrastructure

With Zabbix proxies you can execute remote commands in remote locations – either on the proxies themselves or on the agents monitored by the proxy.

Prevent data loss and add an extra layer of redundancy with Zabbix High availability:

Deploy a secondary Zabbix backend server to prevent data loss in case of an issue
Having HA enables you to perform seamless OS level maintenance and deploy the latest OS updates without any downtime

Deploy multiple Zabbix frontends to avoid downtime and improve the user experience:

Deploy multiple frontends all over the globe for optimal UX across different teams or departments
Implement load balancing between your frontends for best performance
Multiple frontends allow you to avoid downtimes and perform maintenance tasks on individual frontend servers

Let Zabbix automatically balance your hosts across multiple proxies by defining Zabbix proxy groups:

Let Zabbix scale your monitored infrastructure horizontally by automatically balancing your load across Zabbix proxies
Zabbix supports automatic failover whenever a proxy in a proxy group goes down
Customize the Load Balancing logic by defining custom failover periods and minimum number of required nodes per proxy group

Define flexible storage periods for different data sets:

History data
Hourly trends
Events
Audit log entries
Other data
Frontend user sessions

Zabbix can store history metrics and collect hourly metric trends for an unlimited period.