Zeromon provides a pre-built Zabbix installation via an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are planning to release on the DigitalOcean Marketplace soon as well. The Zeromon AWS AMI and DigitalOcean snapshot are both built via, and dependent upon, this Git repository. Check them out at:
- Amazon Machine Image
- DigitalOcean Marketplace Snapshot coming soon...
After deployment of our image, the automation from this repository will run and take approximately 2-3 minutes. You can verify that the process is complete by simply visiting the IP address or DNS name of your new instance in a web browser. You should see the Zabbix log-in screen asking for a user name and password once it is ready.
To log in to your Zabbix web interface, you will need the "Admin" password for the web interface. You must log in to your server via SSH to get this password.
Once logged in as the root user via SSH, you should see instructions that include the user name (Admin) and randomly generated password, which you will use to log in to your Zabbix web interface; similar to the following screenshot:
When using AWS, you will need to SSH to your EC2 instance as the ubuntu user with the SSH key that you used when deploying via AWS.
Once logged in via SSH as the ubuntu user, you will want to run sudo -i to switch to the root user account.
With DigitalOcean, you should be able to SSH to your droplet as the root user directly using a password or SSH key, depending upon whether you selected a public key when deploying.
The cost for usage of the Amazon AMI software is $0.05 USD per hour (or basically, $36.00 USD per month) for all instance types in all regions, in addition to the EC2 pricing itself. We also offer a 7-day 100% money-back guarantee.
The DigitalOcean Marketplace option is currently undergoing testing and is not yet available, so pricing is to be determined.
Note that on AWS, $0.05/hour is billed on top of the AWS instance pricing which is calculated separately and dependent upon Amazon based on the region and instance type.
We generally recommend starting with a t3.medium instance type, but you may be able to use a t3.small for a smaller environment.
However, a t3.large (or bigger) may be necessary depending upon the number of instances that you plan to monitor and pollers you configure within the Zabbix server.
You may want to experiment with other EC2 instance types as well to determine what works best for you and your environment - please feel free to let us know!
The DigitalOcean Marketplace image was built with the smallest sized droplet, but you will want to scale up with the number of servers that you intend to monitor from Zabbix.
Any questions or concerns can be sent to support@zeromon.io and we will do our best to help you out!
Unfortunately, the Amazon Machine Image is not currently available within the Amazon GovCloud region at this time.
The DigitalOcean Marketplace image is not supported by DigitalOcean.
If you are curious about how the Amazon Machine Image or DigitalOcean Marketplace droplet snapshot are created, check out our build documentation!