# 2 Goals and Principles

#### Main Goals of Zabbix Development

There are several goals Zabbix is trying to achieve:

-   become recognized Open Source monitoring tool
-   create Zabbix user group, which helps making the software even
    better
-   provide high-quality commercial support

#### Main principles of Zabbix development

-   be user friendly
-   keep things simple
-   use as few processing resources as possible
-   react fast
-   document every aspect of the software