Is Grafana really needed for Zabbix?

Question

Zabbix

As I understand it, zabbix itself is an integral unit. that can live its own life. Why do people deliver Grafana over it? Just to make visualization of vskih graphs / metrics, etc. more convenient? And does it make sense to distribute grafana to a separate server, or is it not loaded by the server and can be put on one with zabbix?

Answer 1

Grafana beautifully visualizes data, more beautiful than Zabbix. It makes no sense to take out, the client (browser) loads the grafana, not the server.

Answer 2

Just to make it easier to visualize vsky graphs / metrics

Yes - to make dashboards more beautiful. In general, Zabbix can work on its own.
As always, the answer is "depends". From the number of Grafana users, from the server capacity, etc.

Answer 3

The main functionality for which I use grafana is the visualization of the same type of metrics from a large number of servers. In a boxed zabbix, this can be done through "Lastest data", but this is extremely inconvenient. In grafana, you can make drop-down lists of the necessary servers, metrics, etc. in the dashboard - much more convenient.