Hello. Does anyone here use Zabbix to monitor their self-hosted environment? If so, what architecture do you have, and what does your deployment look like?
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
52 points (94.8% liked)
Selfhosted
50159 readers
585 users here now
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
-
No spam posting.
-
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
-
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
-
No trolling.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I am using it and tbh didn't have too many issues with it. It runs as a LXC on my Proxmox server.
With that it's a fairly comfortable setup - it does have API access on the proxmox node and therefore automatically discovers all LXCs,even the ones you add after the installation.
For other machines I use a fairly easy bash script to download the agent 2 and then overwrite the config file with the right parameters,but that's just me being lazy - it's not that much work doing it by hand as well.
And for everything else there is always SNMP which is fairly well supported and there are tons of templates nowadays.
Tbh, I had Prometheus/Grafana before and found it to be much more complicated, especially when you need active and passive nodes. The fact that Zabbix is "All in one" is fairly nice sometimes.
Dashboards are a bit lacking behind Grafana at times,but I can live with that.