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Zabbix vs Prometheus: catalog facts
Zabbix	Prometheus
Free Free and open source under the AGPL. Support and services are paid.	Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…
Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
Scales to tens of thousands of monitored devices with proxies Large template library covering common hardware and services	Label-based data model and PromQL make ad-hoc questions easy to answer Pull model needs no agent configuration beyond exposing a metrics endpoint
Configuration is extensive; the learning curve is real Interface density makes simple setups feel heavy	Local storage is not clustered; long retention needs Thanos, Mimir or similar Pull model does not suit short-lived jobs without a push gateway
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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