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2 Goals and Principles

2.1 Main Goals of Zabbix Development

There are several goals Zabbix is trying to achieve:

  • become recognized Open Source monitoring tool
  • create Zabbix user group, which helps making the software even better
  • provide high-quality commercial support

2.2 Main principles of Zabbix development

  • be user friendly
  • keep things simple
  • use as few processing resources as possible
  • react fast
  • document every aspect of the software