Zabbix appliance - How reliable is it? / Is it suitable to use for abt 1000 servers?

[Nikos]

Hi,

in the download page of the appliance, it is stated that the appliance is only there to evaluate zabbix. My question is to what extend is that the case? I want to use Zabbix to monitor abt 1000 elements across various geographical sites and I want to know if I should use the appliance, or should just use packages on a distro.

Any insight on this is appreciated.

Thanks,
N.

[Atsushi]

It depends on how often you want to monitor and how long you want to store information for 1000 servers. If the default OS template is applied to 1000 servers with the default settings, both performance and capacity will be insufficient.

[kloczek]

As you been told already number of monitored hosts is not relevant.
In zabbix default dashboard in System information-> Required server performance, new values per second you can find most important factor describing size of the monitoring stack.
Quite often it is mentioned as NVPS (New Values Per Second). Required NVPS value is combination of two other factors:
- number of metrics
- how frequently metrics are sampled

Appliance it is only nothing more than kind of simplified platform which allows quickly start playing with zabbix as monitoring stack.
Actual performance and reliability depends on what you are deploying that appliance and has nothing to do with zabbix per se.
Decision about sticking or not with what that appliance offers may depend on NVPS and other factors (like standard procedures used in exact env to deploy base system).

[Nikos]

Thanks for the responses, but I mostly wanted to know, if there is some difference with regards to functionality. The virtual machines I will be using will get extra memory, and processors. If I will be using those extra resources, is it going to make a difference if I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS, per se?

The default disk size is 10GB of the virtual application, but that can be extended. What can also be extended is the memory and the vCPUs used.

From that aspect, is there any real difference between the appliance and say a 16.04 Ubuntu LTS where zabbix was installed?

[kloczek]

Thanks for the responses, but I mostly wanted to know, if there is some difference with regards to functionality. The virtual machines I will be using will get extra memory, and processors. If I will be using those extra resources, is it going to make a difference if I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS, per se?

The default disk size is 10GB of the virtual application, but that can be extended. What can also be extended is the memory and the vCPUs used.

From that aspect, is there any real difference between the appliance and say a 16.04 Ubuntu LTS where zabbix was installed?[/QUOTE]

No and no. That appliance image AFAIK is using exactly the same binary packages as those provided in official Zabbix repositories.

[Nikos]

Thanks, that is exactly the info I was looking for