Mastering Zabbix - Second Edition

Preface

Ever since its first public release in 2001, Zabbix has distinguished itself as a very powerful and effective monitoring solution. As an open source product, it's easy to obtain and deploy, and its unique approach to metrics and alarms has helped to set it apart from its competitors, both open and commercial. It's a powerful, compact package with very low requirements in terms of hardware and supporting software for a basic yet effective installation. If you add a relative ease of use, it's clear that it can be a very good contender for small environments with a tight budget. But it's when it comes to managing a huge number of monitored objects, with a complex configuration and dependencies, that Zabbix's scalability and inherently distributed ...