Zabbix vs Nagios

[husaragi]

You might also consider doing SMS without a modem:

http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/config/alerts/smsapi?s


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this assumes your zabbix box can reach the internet. isnt the idea behind using a modem to have out of band communications? why bother with using a web service, or this other crazy scripting stuff. if you DO have internet connectivity just email your SMS message to your phone. so much easier than whatever else it is you guys are trying to do. Is there something I am missing here?

T-Mobile
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ tmomail.net
Example: [email protected]

Verizon Wireless
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ vtext.com
Example: [email protected]

Rogers Wireless
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ pcs.rogers.com
Example: [email protected]

Sprint PCS
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ messaging.sprintpcs.com
Example: [email protected]

Cingular Wireless
Format: 1 + 10-digit cell phone number @ cingularme.com
Example: [email protected]

AT&T PCS
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ mobile.att.net
Example: [email protected]

Bell Atlantic
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ message.bam.com
Example: [email protected]

Bell Mobility (Canada)
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ txt.bell.ca
Example: [email protected]

Cellular One
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ mobile.celloneusa.com
Example: [email protected]

Comcast
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ comcastpcs.textmsg.com
Example: [email protected]

Fido
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ fido.ca
Example: [email protected]

Telus
Format: 10-digit cell phone number @ msg.telus.com
Example: [email protected]

[Colttt]

*revive*

can somebody tell me FACTS why is Zabbix better than nagios?! or has zabbix more features than nagios?!

[untergeek]

Fact: Zabbix is easier to configure than Nagios
Fact: Zabbix is easier and more complete in its ability to show historical and trend data "out of the box" (some of this is possible with Nagios, but requires add-on modules and more complex configuration).
Fact: Zabbix has a complex user permissions system which allows techies and non-techies to be able to view the data, but only the techies be able to make changes to Zabbix.
Fact: Zabbix allows for easy monitoring of remote sites with proxies and distributed monitoring.

Fact: You could find these out & more with very little digging:
http://www.zabbix.com/features.php

[georgew]

untergeek is correct...

However Nagios can do almost anything that Zabbix can do, but it cannot be easily maintained if you have added a lot of third party add-ons to achieve what Zabbix can already do.

Nagios is configured with a text editor. MANY graphic configurations systems have been developed for Nagios, but few of them are ever maintained longer than a year or two, so you loose your configuration interface and have to learn a new one if you want that kind of backend.

Zabbix has a user interface used for both displaying data AND configuring the system. It's layers of permissions allow you to create executive views, guest views, and several layers of engineer views. You can import a map, and display top-level status information on top of that image... The image can be a map of the world, a diagram of your data center, or any photo that you want being displayed with your status info. you can create a hierarchy of maps, status screens, as well as grouped lists. Zabbix can display your info in enough different ways to satisfy most requirements.

Zabbix feels like a system made by a single toolmaker with a vision. Nagios feels like a mish-mash of parts from many different toolmakers.

Nagios has a long history, and a lot of resistance to changing what makes it difficult.

Zabbix has a shorter history, and started with a focus on making the system easy to administer and use with a single cohesive user interface.

Both have a steep learning curve. I think they both can be equally difficult to get working at first. But with zabbix, once you figure out how to get your first successful result, everything suddenly gets very easy, especially if you have hundreds or even thousands of similar systems to monitor. With Nagios, once you figure out how it works best for you, you still find yourself fighting it a lot. For many years I could add systems to nagios, but I could never remove them. This flaw persisted over many versions, and the fix was to start over.

If you like the command line and hate web interfaces, you will like Nagios best. If you can work equally well in both, or if you prefer a gui, you will prefer Zabbix. In zabbix, I only use the command line for my customizations.

If you want a system that can be build and populated using only automated systems, you may find nagios easier to work with, though I think the zabbix command line may have changed that... but I don't use it. Instead I use the automation built into zabbix.

In my first zabbix system, I spent the morning getting ti working, and monitoring one system. I then told it to apply that template to every system it could find, and by the time I got back from lunch, zabbix had added every machine visible on my network.

[HadasB]

In-depth review of Nagios vs Zabbix, with great comments

Here's a preview:

"A couple of years ago, I was so tired of Nagios that I was ready to try something new. A couple of tools didn’t make the list, simply because of the “fremium” model. The basics are there, but anything more typically carries a hefty price tag.

I decided to try Zabbix and I have pretty much been a fan ever since."

And here's the full review: http://www.itcentralstation.com/prod...arthur-freyman

[elvar]

Here's a preview:

"A couple of years ago, I was so tired of Nagios that I was ready to try something new. A couple of tools didn’t make the list, simply because of the “fremium” model. The basics are there, but anything more typically carries a hefty price tag.

I decided to try Zabbix and I have pretty much been a fan ever since."

And here's the full review: http://www.itcentralstation.com/prod...arthur-freyman

Care to share this post somewhere that doesn't require me to sign up to read it?

[OriginNG]

Care to share this post somewhere that doesn't require me to sign up to read it?

I did signup hoping for a extensive review but it nothing you can't get from zabbix.com. Don't bother.

Regards,

Joop

[javieron]

Jus in case someone come across with this thread

you can check this comparison http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/victorm...omparison.html

There is an interesting comparisson among Zabbix, Nagios and Pandora FMS
Hope it helps

[richlv]

related - slides from a this year's zabbix conference talk by Alexander Naydenko on migrating from nagios to zabbix: http://www.zabbix.com/files/zabconf2...migrations.pdf

as a geeky bonus, the title of the talk is "How we learned to stop worrying and love Zabbix"

[kloczek]

IMO best comparison of zabbix and nagios is here:

https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=zabbix,nagios

You can add any other name of the monitoring software to above and sooner or later will find that only zabbix have long term steady growth.

[farhad]

zabbix vs prtg or solarwinds

i want to deploy zabbix in my network. i should give report to my boss that zabbix better than solarwinds or prtg.
i've searched a lot but i can't find right comparison.

[BDiE8VNy]

i've searched a lot but i can't find right comparison.

There are quite some comparisons out there but none of them is neither neutral nor up-to-date - btw, it's hard to keep pace with the advancement of Zabbix development However, that's the reason why you don't find any comparison published by Zabbix.

The only way to find out is giving the most promising ones a try!

PS: Can't judge Solarwinds but PRTG was from my experience something for people who actually don't care but want to have something that is more than nothing.

[bbrendon]

I think 2.8 and 3.0 were relatively similar. 3.2 brought in tags, correlation, and a lot more features it seems than the older "new" versions.

If you can find some comparison with 3.2, let us know. I'd be interested in reading it.

[richlv]

I think 2.8 and 3.0 were relatively similar. 3.2 brought in tags, correlation, and a lot more features it seems than the older "new" versions.

you probably mean 2.4, not 2.8 ?

3.0 brought in, among other things :
* built-in encryption
* usermacro context
* multiple SNMP OID discovery

these are just a few things, there were also usermacro resolution helper, many improved filters, valuemap api/xml support, action dropdowns changed to buttons

i'd still claim 3.0 brought quite a few significant improvements.