What are your impressions of Zabbix? Who has experience?

Question

Monitoring

I mainly use Nagios and Cacti. I decided to install Zabbix. So far, unfortunately, I can’t master its coolness and usefulness :)
As I understand it, this is rather an analogue of Nagios, Cacti should not be abandoned ... Is it possible to use Zabbix instead of a bunch of Nagios and Cacti?
Share your experience, what should you pay attention to? What are the benefits for you?

Answer 1

In zabbix, the graphics are cooler than in kakti, at least because there is no rrdtool there.
In general, we can say zabbix is ​​kakti + nagios.
There are no special advantages, it just works and notifies you, and you can look at the graphs.

Answer 2

I have a lot of experience with nagios now at another enterprise, I decided to deploy zabbix the same eggs only in our age of zabbix interfaces piling up, for me it would be easier to file nagios in the console, but still, yes, zabbix graphics builds the norm, ...

Answer 3

You need to understand that zabbix is ​​also not ideal, in particular, it immediately needs to rewrite almost all the rules for its tasks so that it is "necessary and sufficient", otherwise the server will have a lot of processing percent + on clients 10 times to pull what is enough 1 + parse. Well, in general, it is complicated, yes, although they say that nagios was also pulled up quite well, the same cascading networks seem to be already understood when a switch failure is an alert only about the switch, without everything that hung behind it.