# Install zabbix with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix, zypper Availability and monitoring solution. Version 7.4.11 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:zabbix ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install zabbix ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add zabbix ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zabbix from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install zabbix-agent ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-agent from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install zabbix ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: zabbix from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#zabbix ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: zabbix from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install system-user-zabbix ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: system-user-zabbix from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:zabbix - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 7.4.11 - **Source summary:** Availability and monitoring solution - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** AGPL-3.0-only - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-22T14:06:44-07:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - zabbix_agentd (cli) - zabbix_get (cli) - zabbix_sender (cli) - zabbix_agentd (alias) - zabbix_get (alias) - zabbix_sender (alias) ## Dependencies - openssl@4 - pcre2 ## Build dependencies - pkgconf ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 7.4.11 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-22 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://www.zabbix.com/ - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage Zabbix is an open-source infrastructure monitoring and observability platform built around a server, agents, proxies, a web frontend, APIs, alerting, dashboards, and command-line utilities such as zabbix_sender and zabbix_get. ### Project history Alexei Vladishev originally created Zabbix in 1998 for his employer while working as a system administrator. Zabbix later became open-source software, and the first 1.0 release is listed by Zabbix release notes on 2004-03-23. Zabbix SIA was founded on 2005-04-12 to support and commercialize the product while keeping the monitoring software open source. That company-backed open-source model became central to Zabbix: free software, but with professional services, training, support, and a partner network around it. The software evolved from host and service monitoring into a distributed monitoring system. Official documentation describes proxies that collect data for remote sites and reduce central-server load, a JSON-RPC API for configuration and historical data, and sender utilities for pushing custom metrics from scripts. ### Adoption history Zabbix adoption grew through the classic open-source operations route: admins could deploy it without per-device license costs, extend it for local checks, and later buy services if the installation became business-critical. Zabbix's own history article names finance, aviation, retail, education, IT, government, non-profit, telecom, health care, and Fortune 500 organizations among its users and customers. The project is also heavily packaged. The command set that Homebrew exposes here, especially `zabbix_agentd`, `zabbix_sender`, and `zabbix_get`, represents the client/utility side of a larger server product that Linux distributions package as agents, proxies, server backends, frontend components, Java gateway, and sender/get tools. Zabbix's adoption history is tied to the Nagios-era monitoring landscape: it offered a full web UI, graphs, discovery, templates, escalations, proxies, and an API while remaining open source. That made it a durable option for organizations that wanted more integrated monitoring without moving to a proprietary licensing model. ### How it is used Operators deploy a Zabbix server and frontend, install agents on monitored hosts, use proxies for branch offices or remote networks, define items/triggers/templates, and route alerts through configured media. Scripts can push metrics with `zabbix_sender`, manually query agent keys with `zabbix_get`, and automate configuration through the JSON-RPC API. In package terms, the Homebrew formula is most useful on admin workstations or small monitored hosts: it provides the agent daemon and CLI utilities that let a user test checks, send trapper values, or connect local scripts to a central Zabbix deployment. ### Why package nerds care Zabbix matters to package nerds because it is a large, long-lived open-source operations stack whose packaging surface is bigger than one executable. Real deployments care about daemons, service users, config paths, database-backed server components, frontend files, agent packages, sender/get helpers, proxies, templates, and upgrade policy. It is also a strong example of a commercial open-source infrastructure project where package availability is adoption infrastructure: the easier it is to install agents and utilities across operating systems, the easier it is for a central monitoring system to become the default operational fabric. ### Timeline - 1998: Alexei Vladishev created the original monitoring software for his employer. - 2004-03-23: Zabbix 1.0 release listed in official release notes. - 2005-04-12: Zabbix company founded to support the open-source product. - 2006-2007: Early 1.1, 1.3, and 1.4 releases show rapid post-1.0 development in official release notes. - 2017: Zabbix's 15-year story article described worldwide adoption across major industries and a global partner/service organization. ### Related projects - Related projects and ecosystem pieces include Nagios, Icinga, Prometheus, Grafana, Net-SNMP, Zabbix agents, Zabbix proxy, Zabbix Java gateway, PyZabbix, zabbix-cli, and distribution packages for Zabbix server/frontends. ### Sources - - - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for zabbix. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** zabbix - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - zabbix-agent - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-agent from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | network monitoring solution - agent | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-agent2 - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-agent2 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Zabbix network monitoring solution - agent2 | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-frontend-php - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-frontend-php from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | network monitoring solution - PHP front-end | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-java-gateway - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-java-gateway from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | network monitoring solution - Java gateway | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-proxy-mysql - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-proxy-mysql from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | network monitoring solution - proxy (using MySQL) | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-proxy-pgsql - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-proxy-pgsql from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | network monitoring solution - proxy (using PostgreSQL) | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-proxy-sqlite3 - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-proxy-sqlite3 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | network monitoring solution - proxy (using SQLite3) | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-sender - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-sender from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Zabbix network monitoring solution - sender | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-server-mysql - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-server-mysql from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | network monitoring solution - server (using MySQL) | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-server-pgsql - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-server-pgsql from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | network monitoring solution - server (using PostgreSQL) | http://zabbix.com - Debian apt - zabbix-web-service - 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zabbix-web-service from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Zabbix network monitoring solution - web-service | http://zabbix.com - Nix - zabbix: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: zabbix from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - apk - zabbix - 7.4.11-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zabbix from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring | https://www.zabbix.com/ - apk - zabbix-agent - 7.4.11-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zabbix-agent from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zabbix Network Monitoring Agent | https://www.zabbix.com/ - apk - zabbix-agent-openrc - 7.4.11-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zabbix-agent-openrc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zabbix Network Monitoring Agent (OpenRC init scripts) | https://www.zabbix.com/ - apk - zabbix-agent2 - 7.4.11-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zabbix-agent2 from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zabbix Network Monitoring Agent (version 2) | https://www.zabbix.com/ ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider. - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts. - [openssl@4](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openssl-4/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pcre2](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pcre2/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [zabbix-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/zabbix-cli/) - Package name indicates the same formula family. - [netdata](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/netdata/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: alerts, cli, infrastructure, metrics, monitoring. - [collectd](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/collectd/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, metrics, monitoring, system. - [ctop](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ctop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, metrics, monitoring, system. - [mon](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mon/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: alerts, cli, monitoring, system. - [nagios](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/nagios/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, infrastructure, monitoring, system. - [node_exporter](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/node-exporter/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, metrics, monitoring, system. - [asitop](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/asitop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system. - [duf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/duf/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, system. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/zabbix.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/zabbix.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph