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