Zabbix vs Prometheus: Monitoring System Selection Guide
Overview In the monitoring system space, Zabbix and Prometheus are the two giants. Zabbix comes from the traditional operations era, dominating physical machine/VM environments for nearly 25 years; Prometheus rose in the cloud-native era, becoming the de facto standard for the Kubernetes ecosystem. Many teams face a question when choosing a monitoring system: Zabbix or Prometheus? The answer isn’t either/or. Many mature teams run both systems simultaneously in production — Zabbix handles the infrastructure layer (network, hardware, OS), while Prometheus handles the application and cloud-native layers....