Zabbix Installation best Practices.

[Masih1432]

Hello Folks,

We have are currently working on Zabbix POC, we have certain questions.

1. We are going to monitor thousands of devices with Zabbix, we'd like to know what is the best practices for installing zabbix app and MySQL db. Both should be on same box or we can use two boxes one for app and one for DB?
2. Is there any git repo or something like that to automate the installation of zabbix?

Please let us know.

TIA..

[isaqueprofeta]

First: "thousands of devices" don't really matter, you need to estimate how many values your server gonna receive per second, that's the key to understand performance on Zabbix.

Second: If you have expertise with MySQL, it's fine but if you have only "some practice" go for PostgreSQL

Third: put an SSD in your database server (I/O is key on Zabbix database performance) and yes, you're want to put a separate server for database.

Fourth: You don't want to automate the server-side of Zabbix period. If you're talking about agents, any ansible/terraform playbook for yum/dnf/apt gonna work fine.

Fifth: Do yourself a favor and call a Zabbix certified company to do your PoC, you want someone to put the PoC environment in the best shape or you're not gonna really understand the fundamental concepts for a big size without some experience.