What is the difference between Zabbix agent and agent 2?

zabbix agent 2 is capable of doing all agent 1 does + some more. It’s not “daemonized” on *NIX because this job is propagated to systemd. The same with privileges, while agent 1 is capable of switching user that it is run as, agent 2 doesn’t have this functionality and this is controlled by systemd instead.

How do I enable Zabbix agent 2?

Add Host to Zabbix-Interface Enter Hostname, select at least one Group (e.g. Linux servers) and enter the DNS name or IP address of your new server where you installed Zabbix-agent2, and click “Add”. After some minutes, in the Host-Overview you should now see, that ZBX is green, so the agent is available.

How do Zabbix agents work?

The main job of Zabbix agents consists in gathering local information from the targets where they run and sending the data to a central Zabbix server to be further processed and analyzed.

What is Zabbix agent service?

A native Zabbix agent, developed in C language, may run on various supported platforms, including Linux, UNIX and Windows, and collect data such as CPU, memory, disk and network interface usage from a device.

How do I install Zabbix agent 2 on Centos?

  1. cd /tmp/ yum install -y wget pcre-devel gcc zlib-devel wget https://cdn.zabbix.com/zabbix/sources/stable/5.0/zabbix-5.0.2.tar.gz.
  2. groupadd –system zabbix useradd –system -g zabbix -d /usr/lib/zabbix -s /sbin/nologin -c “Zabbix Monitoring System” zabbix.
  3. tar -xvzf zabbix-5.0.2.tar.gz cd zabbix-5.0.2.

How much does Zabbix cost?

Zabbix Pricing Overview Zabbix pricing starts at $1600.00 per year. There is a free version. Zabbix offers a free trial.

How do I add agents to Zabbix?

How to configure and deploy Zabbix passive and active agents:

  1. Install the Zabbix repository and the Zabbix Agent on your host.
  2. Open the zabbix_agentd.
  3. Specify your Zabbix Server address in the Server and ServerActive parameters.
  4. Define the name of your host in the Hostname parameter.
  5. Restart the Zabbix Agent.

Is zabbix really free?

Absolutely Free Zabbix is released under the GPL license, thus is free for commercial and non-commercial use. There are no limitations on the number of monitored devices, you can use Zabbix to monitor many thousands of devices absolutely free.

Is Prometheus better than zabbix?

Neither architecture is inherently better than the other, although some may consider Zabbix’s architecture older. Zabbix’s architecture lends itself better to hardware and device management; Prometheus is better for cloud services and SaaS.