Migrating from Zabbix to Prometheus
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Moving from Zabbix to Prometheus is not a data migration. There is no export file that turns into rule files, and no tool that converts triggers into PromQL. The two systems model monitoring differently. Most of the work is translating concepts, then rebuilding a smaller set of rules on top of them.
This post maps each Zabbix concept to its Prometheus counterpart, lists the parts that have no equivalent, and suggests an order of work that keeps Zabbix running until the end.