The beginning of the real challenge

When I started working with Zabbix and deployed our first project with Zabbix, some thoughts that surrounded me were as follows: whether this tool is a reliable one, whether it is possible to use it in large environments, how many users I can have using the Zabbix GUI, and how many hosts or nvps I can manage with Zabbix.

Of course, we started working with Zabbix after a lot of tests and simulations, but a test environment isn't the same as most customers' environments.

In our first project with Zabbix in a large environment (Zabbix version 1.4), we had no Zabbix proxy, caches, or any buffer inside the Zabbix server. Of course, we experienced a lot of troubles regarding performance. We started this project using ...

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