Don’t hit me right away because this is not a *min topic. 
Are there any users here who can tell me about their experiences with Zabbix? I wasn’t familiar with the tool and only stumbled across it today. The range of functions leaves a great impression, but I would like to know first-hand whether the tool is worth using.
I’d say check it against Nagios. I think both have support forums that you might want to check out in terms of being able to get help. I’ve used Nagios in the past and know it is quite capable. Wasn’t the most intuitive to set up new monitors but that was over 10 years ago.
Is it worth using? That depends on what you have to monitor and how important it is to you. I think both use stand alone instances, not on your server type software. Virtualmin has built in monitoring that is enough if all you are going to use it for is that.
Seems like a lot of work to set up.
I’ve been using uptime-kuma to monitor the ports and no need to for additional apps or agents on the server you are monitoring. We just set up a trust zone on the servers firewall to allow our IP to PING and away we go.
https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
Thanks, folks. I’m not really looking into alternatives but first-hand experience with Zabbix.
Professionally, I used Nagios too. Can’t say I loved it for the way it was designed around usability, but it did a great job. Personally, I’m operating an UptimeKuma instance for a couple of years and am quite pleased with it. However, I always had the impression there must be “something more” when it comes to monitoring.
My team uses Zabbix quite a bit. It’s great for general server settings. But it doesn’t know about Virtualmin, so we are now experimenting with https://github.com/Futur-Tech/futur-tech-zabbix-virtualmin
Here is an experiment:
Have you tried netdata?
Simple install. Monitors and graphs entire server / multiple servers.
It’s free too.
I think webmin “knows” when it’s installed because a new link shows up directing you to the charts.
Interesting. Will have a closer look. Thanks for the hint.
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