It's a sentiment that I've heard a lot - Zabbix focuses a lot on a core set of functionality, which is mostly just monitoring the state of some number of servers/VMs, with some optional integrations.
While the metrics that come out of the box are nice, everything does feel a bit cumbersome, personally - such as creating network maps (which aren't automatically generated), dashboards for getting input on CPU/RAM/storage at a glance, as well as viewing web monitoring statistics.
Actually, previously I used it for web monitoring, though for some reason by default it does not allow you to have triggers for those that would send an e-mail once a site goes down, even if the performance information and configuration was passable.
But overall it's just views after views, nested inside of tables with weird UI/UX choices, such as having Update/Add buttons, both of which are necessary to persist changes (for example, in the web monitoring section when adding new monitoring steps and also wanting to save those changes).
Like another commenter suggested, there are systems out there that make ingesting and visualizing data more easy and sometimes also more pleasant... Though personally Zabbix is fine for what I need.
While the metrics that come out of the box are nice, everything does feel a bit cumbersome, personally - such as creating network maps (which aren't automatically generated), dashboards for getting input on CPU/RAM/storage at a glance, as well as viewing web monitoring statistics.
Actually, previously I used it for web monitoring, though for some reason by default it does not allow you to have triggers for those that would send an e-mail once a site goes down, even if the performance information and configuration was passable.
But overall it's just views after views, nested inside of tables with weird UI/UX choices, such as having Update/Add buttons, both of which are necessary to persist changes (for example, in the web monitoring section when adding new monitoring steps and also wanting to save those changes).
Like another commenter suggested, there are systems out there that make ingesting and visualizing data more easy and sometimes also more pleasant... Though personally Zabbix is fine for what I need.