# Zabbix

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Zabbix and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free, mature monitoring tool that people trust for servers, VMs and containers, with native high availability and self-checks. One critic said it scaled poorly.

## Why people recommend it

- Mature, battle-tested classic tooling (3 comments): "Zabbix, Nagios, Munin -- practically everything that existed before: understood this." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121988)) "which is indeed more battle-tested" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285705)) "use "classic" tooling in a team" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452440))
- Early warnings and built-in self-checks (2 comments): "warns me about the problems way before even the $job one does" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50012145)) "Zabbix solves this with native HA and self-checks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121662))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Grafana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grafana.md): 71 recommend
- [Prometheus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/prometheus.md): 48 recommend
- [Datadog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/datadog.md): 40 recommend
- [Sentry](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sentry.md): 31 recommend
- [SigNoz](https://hackerapproved.com/p/signoz.md): 19 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Zabbix", https://hackerapproved.com/p/zabbix/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).