Self-Hosted Zabbix Alternatives

There are many alternatives to Zabbix as a self-hosted solution if you are looking for a replacement. The best Self-Hosted alternative is Netdata, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Zabbix and many of them are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Zabbix are Beszel, Paessler PRTG Network Monitor, HyperDX and DeepFlow.

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  1. Netdata icon

    Netdata

     66 likes

    Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications.

    56 Netdata alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
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    Netdata vs Zabbix Comments
    Pierre-Yves Landuré
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    Zabbix is a fully free and open source monitoring solution. Netdata is a commercial solution with a closed-source web service with a free tier and an open source agent to send data to the web service.

    Netdata isn't a fully open source solution.

    • Netdata is Freemium and ProprietaryZabbix is Free and Open Source
    • Netdata is LightweightZabbix is not according to our users
  4. Paessler PRTG Network Monitor icon

    Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

     42 likes

    Comprehensive monitoring solution with over 200 sensor types, user-friendly interface, and powerful capabilities such as traffic analysis, failover clustering, and remote probes. Offers email and SMS alerts, supports SNMP and WMI, provides high-availability features and detailed reporting.

    110 Paessler PRTG Network Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

    Comprehensive monitoring solution with over 200 sensor types, user-friendly interface, and powerful capabilities such as traffic analysis, failover clustering, and remote probes. Offers email and SMS alerts, supports SNMP and WMI...

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  6. HyperDX icon

    HyperDX

     19 likes

    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  7. DeepFlow icon

    DeepFlow

     5 likes

    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    DeepFlow screenshot 1
     
  10. Pandora FMS icon

    Pandora FMS

     71 likes

    Enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    Pandora FMS visual console
     
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    Pandora FMS vs Zabbix Comments
    MrOta
    Positive
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    More features and more scalable

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    denwulf
    Positive
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    The Community edition already provides official Netflow and Oracle monitoring plugins for free

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Pandora FMS is Freemium and Open SourceZabbix is Free and Open Source
    • Pandora FMS is LightweightZabbix is not according to our users
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    Cabot

     18 likes

    Cabot is a free, open-source, self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform that provides some of the best features of PagerDuty, Server Density, Pingdom and Nagios without their cost and complexity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  12. OpenNMS Horizon icon

    OpenNMS Horizon

     11 likes

    OpenNMS is an open-source network monitoring platform that helps you visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    Dashboard
     
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    VictoriaMetrics

     3 likes

    VictoriaMetrics can be used as long-term storage for Prometheus or for vmagent.

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  14. SigNoz icon

    SigNoz

     18 likes

    Open source observability platform. SigNoz helps developers find issues in their deployed applications & solve them quickly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    SigNoz screenshot 1
     
  15. Axibase Time Series Database icon

    Axibase Time Series Database

     3 likes

    ATSD is purpose-built for analyzing and reporting on massive volumes of time-series data collected at high frequency. Features include data analytics, visualization, data forecasting, reporting, alerting. All in one product built for big data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    ATSD Visualization Portal Example
     
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