Is it just me or is the learning curve a lot greater with Zabbix? The error messages seem extremely vague or completely useless. The web GUI fields don’t have proper validation. They moved a lot of things around in the 6.4 version and now googling a solution gives me out of date info. The template network sensors are picking up about 20 ethernet interfaces on windows VMs in HyperV and I cant select just the one that I want to monitor (I guess I have to write my own sensor for that?).
I was demo’d Zabbix by a friend who has 39k+ sensors working on less hardware than my 1000 sensors use in PRTG, and the price difference is huge… So I really want this to work for me but I spent the whole day today feeling uneasy about it.
What are your guys thoughts?
Price difference is huge but don’t forget to take into account the time you’ll spend managing the monitoring tool, that’s a “hidden cost” easily overlooked. (However, I have almost no experience with Zabbix so I can’t tell if it’s a “turnkey” solution like PRTG)