Munin VS Zabbix

Compare Munin vs Zabbix and see what are their differences.

Munin

Main repository for munin master / node / plugins (by munin-monitoring)

Zabbix

Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud. (by zabbix)
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Munin Zabbix
25 68
1,895 3,722
0.8% 3.5%
7.8 10.0
30 days ago 6 days ago
Perl PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Munin

Posts with mentions or reviews of Munin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-25.

Zabbix

Posts with mentions or reviews of Zabbix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-23.
  • Top 11 Grafana Alternatives in 2023
    4 projects | dev.to | 23 Oct 2023
    Zabbix is a comprehensive open-source monitoring solution designed for real-time monitoring and management of various network components, such as servers, networks, and applications. It excels in data collection and processing, enabling proactive monitoring for early issue detection and resolution.
  • PHP-FPM 8.2 on OpenBSD 7.3
    6 projects | dev.to | 5 Aug 2023
    5 projects | dev.to | 2 Aug 2023
    The PHP core package is offered as pre-compiled binary via Ports packages system. In addition, important softwares such as extensions, Composer and PECL libraries are available. So are frameworks such as NextCloud and Zabbix.
  • Uptime site monitor - notification solutions for home while sleeping
    3 projects | /r/sysadmin | 22 Jun 2023
    Check out Zabbix. Similar to something like PRTG (I see was already mentioned) but it is a free solution. Only cost is setup time and infrastructure.
  • Self hosted log paraer
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 Jun 2023
    now if its more metric data you are using and want to do APM, prometheus is your man https://prometheus.io/, want to make prometheus your full time job? deploy cortex https://cortexmetrics.io/, honorable mention in the metrics space, Zabbix, https://www.zabbix.com/ I've seen use cases of zabbix going way beyond its intended use its a fantastic tool
  • Mixed Vendor Network Monitoring and Management
    4 projects | /r/networking | 29 May 2023
    - NMS / NPM: NetXMS, Zabbix, LibreNMS, PRTG - NCM, updates, automation: Unimus - IaC / automation: Ansible - DCIM / IPAM: NetBox - IPAM / DDI: Infoblox
  • PHP-FPM 8.1 on OpenBSD 7.3
    6 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2023
    The core package is offered as pre-compiled binary through Ports packages system. In addition, important softwares such as extensions, Composer and PECL libraries are available. So are frameworks such as NextCloud and Zabbix.
  • What do you use to monitor Ubuntu?
    2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 3 May 2023
    Zabbix https://www.zabbix.com/ is another decent option.
  • How on earth do people deal with Datadog's billing practices?
    2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 18 Apr 2023
  • Selfmade PVE-Rack
    11 projects | /r/homelab | 17 Apr 2023
    Zabbix, to monitor my websites and devices

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Munin and Zabbix you can also consider the following projects:

LibreNMS - Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system

uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

Netdata - Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time.

Centreon - Centreon is a network, system and application monitoring tool. Centreon is the only AIOps Platform Providing Holistic Visibility to Complex IT Workflows from Cloud to Edge.

loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.

Monit

Sensu

cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

ElastiFlow - Network flow analytics (Netflow, sFlow and IPFIX) with the Elastic Stack

Sentry - Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring