# Zabbix

> Zabbix is a free, open-source app you can self-host in the monitoring & status pages category. Enterprise-class open-source monitoring for networks, servers, VMs and cloud services. It has 6,441 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and ships a Docker image. It is a self-hosted alternative to Datadog and Grafana Cloud.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix |
| Website | https://www.zabbix.com/ |
| GitHub stars | 6,441 |
| Forks | 1,265 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| License type | Open source |
| Language | Go Template |
| Docker image | Yes |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Categories | Monitoring & Status Pages |
| Commits, last 12 months | 12,704 |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Latest release | No releases |
| Created | Feb 27, 2014 |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained |
| Archived | No |

Topics: zabbix, monitoring, alerting, metrics, network-monitoring, application-monitoring

## Install

Zabbix ships a Docker image; follow the README at https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix for the image name and environment variables.

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## Zabbix replaces

- [Datadog alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/datadog): A cloud monitoring platform for metrics, logs and traces.
- [Grafana Cloud alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/grafana-cloud): A hosted observability stack for metrics, logs and traces.

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