Introduction

Zabbix-Direct is available exclusively through our IntelliTrend Mobile app and allows you to directly access with your Zabbix server from your phone. It’s suitable for individual users or smaller organizations focusing on single-server monitoring.

DataForge is a separate server extending Zabbix with various enterprise-grade features. It also contains all features of Zabbix-Direct. It is accessible both through our IntelliTrend Mobile for Zabbix app and via your web browser, and can connect to multiple Zabbix servers simultaneously. It’s primarily designed for larger companies.

IntelliTrend Mobile for Zabbix

The IntelliTrend Mobile for Zabbix app provides a seamless mobile experience for monitoring Zabbix servers, allowing you to stay informed and responsive at all times.

If you don’t have the IntelliTrend Mobile for Zabbix app yet, you can get it here:

• Google Play
• Apple App Store

The app operates in two distinct modes: Zabbix-Direct and DataForge. This choice between modes is only available when using the app, as Zabbix-Direct is IntelliTrend Mobile for Zabbix exclusive, as well as our unique push notification service. The differences between both modes are explained in their respective chapters: Zabbix-Direct and DataForge. For a quick comparison between the two modes, refer to the table provided in this chapter.

Zabbix-Direct

Zabbix-Direct is primarily targeted at individual users who want to monitor their Zabbix server and receive push notification triggered by certain events. Zabbix-Direct is only accessible with the IntelliTrend Mobile for Zabbix app and directly communicates with your Zabbix server installation, more specifically with your Zabbix frontend, using the Zabbix-API over HTTP/HTTPS.

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We provide a comprehensive dashboard and dedicated sections for all identified issues, configured triggers, host groups, hosts, items, graphs, and services. Zabbix-Direct not only allows you to inspect graphs generated by Zabbix, it also generates its own graphs and lists for numeric and text items. Its functionality mirrors that of DataForge’s Zabbix client.

The app can be downloaded for free and we offer a free trial period for Zabbix-Direct. After that, a subscription is required.

DataForge

Expanding upon the capabilities of Zabbix-Direct, DataForge Core offers advanced functionality like our advanced reporting capabilities, self-provisioning features, and anomaly detection with DataForge AI. It includes role-based access control, and allows management of multiple different Zabbix servers.

The mobile app and the Dataforge web frontend communicate with the DataForge Server using HTTP/HTTPS, which in turn communicates with the respective Zabbix installation frontend using the Zabbix-API over HTTP/HTTPS.

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DataForge is designed for horizontal scalability, meaning it can efficiently manage multiple Zabbix servers and map larger sized company structures. This provides a view of organizational hierarchies and allows you to manage these with a role based authorization system.

So DataForge is well suited to work in environments of System integrators, MSPs, MaaS provider and large corporations running multiple independent Zabbix servers and provides easy access through a simple to use user portal and a mobile app.

Self provisioning

DataForge Core’s Self provisioning is defined by two key features: Maintenances and Alerts.

Maintenance: Allows you to set hosts or entire host groups into maintenance directly via the app. With hosts or host groups in maintenance mode, you further have the ability to decide if the host or host group in maintenance still collects data, or if data collection is suspended during the maintenance.

Alerts: Allows you to enable or disable alerts for specific host groups in response to configurable severity levels of problems. These alerts utilize the configured media types on the Zabbix server. Notably, users can even opt to receive push notifications on their mobile devices through our IntelliTrend Mobile for Zabbix app.

AI

DataForge AI allows you to train multivariate time series anomaly detection models using item histories from your Zabbix server. You can extract datasets based on your Zabbix server’s history and train AI models tailored to your hosts. Our AI runner is able to process new values from your Zabbix server in real time, execute models when the data arrives and send loss metrics back to Zabbix. The data can then be further processed using regular actions and triggers to alert you when an anomaly is detected. Combined with our push notification service, you can then receive a push notification regarding this anomaly on your mobile device.

Reporting

Another distinctive feature is the capability to configure, generate, and receive reports. These reports are created by using widgets and can visualize various data from your Zabbix server. Within the report configuration, there is a scheduling mode that determines the frequency at which the report is generated and dispatched. To receive these reports, you must subscribe to them and select the format in which the report is generated. Available options include PDF, JSON, XML, and CSV.

Comparison table

Where to begin?

Depending on the product and user type you are using, there are multiple valid entry points.

For users who have not yet completed their initial Zabbix server setup in DataForge, please refer to the DataForge manager manual to get started with DataForge.

For users who already have completed the initial steps as a DataForge manager and now want to start working with DataForge user features like Self-Provisioning, Reporting or DataForge AI, please refer to the DataForge user manual to get started with the DataForge user features.

When looking to install an On-Premises DataForge instance, please refer to the DataForge Admin manual: Installation page.