Application monitoring using Zabbix

[Srikanth.panchakarla]

Hi,

I am from HPOMW/HP-BSM-BPM tools background. I am currently evaluating Zabbix tools for my company. Want to understand can Zabbix perform below items?

1) Application monitoring from end user perspective. How the end user is seeing the performance.
2) Component break down ( like DNS response time, SSL hand shake time, DB response time, download time etc ).
3) Load balancing. ( Application performance monitored from different site and analyze performance from each location ).


Thanks,
Srikanth

[jamesNJ]

I'm kind of new to some o this as well, but I think with some work you can accomplish what you are looking for. I think the main thing is to have some way to test and capture the data you are interested in, and then items in zabbix to capture that data. Your question is rather generic, but here are some ideas for each point:
1) web sites can be monitored with some performance data, either by simple checkes or more complex web scenarios. Applications like databases can have scripts created that run example queries, etc. or pull metrics right from the DB system itself.
2) Each thing you are looking to measure would be an item and there are ways to group items either by host, or application, etc. You can build screen with multiple graphs that relate to one another, and you might be able consolidate all data to 1 graph if it is appropriate to do so. The Web scenario stacks response times for each step into a single graph
3) I'm not sure about. I will need to implement something like this soon. I think you can do this by creating items across multiple hosts that are associated by the same "application" name, and then review data based on the application.

I hope that helps,