"Our key challenges in finding a monitoring solution were price and functionality. Many commercial offerings we used were very expensive, but lacked basic monitoring functionality that we consider a requirement of any tool. Besides price, Zabbix’s flexibility to tweak, optimize, customize, integrate, and tailor to our needs is a major benefit. Zabbix features are constantly growing, and contributions from the community keep needed functionality in check. Many commercial vendors are focusing on how they can partner, market, and enhance their product from a revenue generation perspective, leaving basic needed functionality on the back door step. Zabbix monitors and alerts on just about anything, which puts them miles ahead in that regards to many commercial offerings touting the same capability."