Zabbix is an open-source monitoring platform for networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services. It collects metrics via SNMP, IPMI, JMX, and custom agents, then stores the data in a relational database and provides alerting, visualization, and reporting through a web-based frontend.
Alexei Vladishev created Zabbix in 2001 and released the first stable version (1.0) in 2004. The project is developed by Zabbix LLC (SIA Zabbix), based in Riga, Latvia.
Version 4.0 (October 2018) introduced the Zabbix agent2 written in Go, with concurrent check execution and a plugin architecture. Version 5.0 LTS (May 2020) added a monitoring proxy for distributed environments and a redesigned SAML authentication system. Version 6.0 LTS (February 2022) added high-availability clustering for the Zabbix server, Kubernetes monitoring, and a machine-learning-based anomaly detection function.
Adoption
Zabbix is used in financial, telecommunications, and government environments. The Bank of China uses Zabbix with a TiDB scale-out database to monitor its infrastructure. Zabbix LLC holds an annual Zabbix Summit conference and maintains a network of certified partners and training centers. Later reviews noted that large deployments require significant manual configuration of triggers and thresholds.