# 15 Distributed Monitoring

Zabbix can be configured to support hierarchical distributed monitoring.

![goals](/page>manual/distributed_monitoring/goals)
![overview](/page>manual/distributed_monitoring/overview)
![configuration](/page>manual/distributed_monitoring/configuration)
![platform\_independence](/page>manual/distributed_monitoring/platform_independence)
![configuring\_single\_node](/page>manual/distributed_monitoring/configuring_single_node)
![switching\_between\_nodes](/page>manual/distributed_monitoring/switching_between_nodes)
![data\_flow](/page>manual/distributed_monitoring/data_flow)
![performance](/page>manual/distributed_monitoring/performance)