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Reason #1 for me is the query language.

I find it much easier to define alerts etc. in PromQL than with zabbix checks.

Other reasons, in no particular order:

• better performance
• super easy to expose metrics (if you develop an application)
• there are exporters (small tools that transform metrics into Prometheus-readable format) for many things, and it is quite simple to write one if it does not exist for your use case - I find it much more elegant than having to run some script every poll cycle with zabbix.
• the accompanying Alertmanager is a great tool for Alert handling

I acknowledge that I am probably a bit biased, but just recently I tried to build a check in Zabbix that compares the current value of a metric with a previous value - it worked in the end, but the syntax was just so terrible, it was quite a frustrating experience.

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Yes - query language is not as pleasant as it could be but it's not totally awful ;-)
I don't have a performance issues - the default install of postgresql instance needs some db tunning.
That is nice I didn't try this in zabbix - some day I will write an integration with our CRM.
Yeah exporters looks very useful.
I use Telegram and Slack transport instead of other application for me it's better.

One more time - thanks for Your point of view! Some day I will try Prometheus if zabbix will be botleneck.

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If you insist on using Zabbix, apparently it has support for reading data in the prometheus format: Prometheus checks

But honestly, do yourself a favor and ditch Zabbix ;)

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Thanks for the answer.

But honestly, do yourself a favor and ditch Zabbix ;)

Yes - it has got some underdeveloped features but ... it's not that bad in broader view. It's better than nagios or cacti.

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It's better than nagios or cacti.

I can't really speak to that, as I've used neither nagios nor cacti.
But I do have a direct comparison between Zabbix and Prometheus, and that comparison is very unfavorable for Zabbix...

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sorry for making an offtopic but its also important topic for me:
What is advantage of Prometheus comparing to Zabbix? (I didn't use Prometheus much in production)
I use zabbix at <10k items now and it's working like charm.

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