Details
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Epic
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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Replace zabbix with prometheus for MDBF monitoring
Description
Zabbix is a very good monitoring platform but there are some motivation to move to Prometheus/Alertmanager:
- monitoring as code;
- as soon a team needs to work zabbix, it's complex to track changes and there can be a lot of regressions;
- the zabbix-agent2 client (compared to prometheus exporter) is not always very simple to install on our BB architecture (s390x, ppc);
- the prometheus blackbox exporter is way more powerfull;
- alertmanager is crazy fast to query with the amtool software (compared to querying the zabbix API);
- the time drift monitoring is not possible in zabbix with active agent deployments;
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