Zabbix VS Checkmk

Zabbix Reviews

1. Stan    

   Founder at SaaSHub | 9 months ago
   Indispensable

   Zabbix has been part of my toolbox for quite some time. I can easily say it's an indispensable tool for me now.

   Managing a dozen servers without Zabbix would be unimaginable. I'm monitoring all of this: CPU, Memory, Hard-drives, website response times, downtime. The UI might be a bit "old school", but everything works flawlessly.

   With regards to hard-drive monitoring, I love the machine learning option that allows you to "predict" the number of days before running out of space. That's quite helpful, as I've got some of my servers down due to running out of space multiple times in the past (before I was using Zabbix).

   👍 Pros:    Open-source|It can monitor everything

   👎 Cons:    The ui is a bit unintuitive in some cases

Checkmk Reviews

Zabbix mentions (5)

• Learning Resources

  Official Zabbix trainings, documentation on zabbix.com ? Source: over 1 year ago

• zabbix installation

  Hallo, do you know a howto to install zabbix on an ubuntu 20.04 ? I tried the manuals from zabbix.com for MySQL Apache but it didn't work. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How I am getting experience as a linux admistrator (Follow Up)

  He suggested that I indeed should set up a home-lab. To be specific he said that I should create a minimal install of Centos 8 and install zabbix server on it (https://zabbix.com) and monitor a whole bunch of other VMs, services and stuff.. He said that I should set up a variety of VMs and also maybe host a website on one of them. And then if I was able to do that, I could help to share a load of zabbix related... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ubuntu Impish 21.10 / Zabbix 6.0 LTS

  This is a fresh 21.10 install, using the install repo as detailed on the zabbix.com download page. Source: about 2 years ago

• One dev conference speaker's family member died, need your help to fill the speaking slot on Nov 27/28

  Well, if you can't find anyone, I am more than happy to fill the slot with something regarding Zabbix - just let me know ;). Source: over 2 years ago

Checkmk mentions (53)

• Monitoring solution

  CheckMK https://checkmk.com. You can spin this up in a docker container. Source: 8 months ago

• "All in one monitoring solution"?

  I use CheckMK to do all of this and more, except nutanix. But checkmk also can Monitor nutanix via the "Nutanix Prism" special agent Integration. Source: 9 months ago

• Is there an alternative to BI Tools?

  BI machine and NVR report to CheckMK Raw host so it's easy to see historic stats. Source: 9 months ago

• Uptime Monitor

  I’m using https://checkmk.com/ to monitor stuff and it seems to work great. Lots of built in features and functions and if they don’t have what you need you can also create custom scripts to check and report on anything you can dream up. Runs great in docker (I’m using portainer but will run fine in plain old docker). Source: 9 months ago

• Actually usefull or uneccessary? SNMP, AD, Monitoring...

  Have a look at CheckMK open source version is really good, you can spin it up in a docker container and is relatively easy to get some initial monitors going. As to whether it's worthwhile, I guess it depends how much you want to know how you servers are doing and when something goes wrong. Source: 10 months ago