Is Zabbix the right tool for me?

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Published on 2010-02-04T14:28:07Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 11:41 UTC
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I just want to monitor a small handful of servers (less than 10).

From reading various places it sounds like the top leading contenders (for open source at least) are:

nagios
munin
zabbix

From what I have read a lot of people tend to use munin and nagios together -- munin for history and graphs, and nagios for alerting.

On the other hand it sounds like Zabbix is a more complete solution and easier to configure than either of the other two. So I was thinking of going that route.

My thoughts right now are:

What are the general disadvantages of Zabbix?
Does Zabbix have a small footprint on boxes it is monitoring?
Do I really need to setup an entire other server for it? I currently have a server that is under very light load -- can I dual purpose it?

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