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Conferences
Zabbix Summit Goes Online in 2020
September 2, 2020
Community
Zabbix Summit is the only place to hear notable use cases of Zabbix and deep dive in technical solutions presented by worldwide Zabbix experts. Nine years in a row, we did our best in organizing the event, which gathered hundreds of visitors from tens of countries. This year, we are adopting the new rules and […]
Support of whitelists and blacklists for metrics on agent side
September 1, 2020
Conferences
The new whitelist and blacklist functionality in Zabbix 5.0 may help to secure your environment. Learn how and why using this functionality in the following blog post.
Integrating Zabbix with alerting and ITSM systems the easy way
August 13, 2020
Conferences
Zabbix supports many different monitoring approaches for different infrastructures. Data collection and analysis are just a part of the job. Once the data is collected, we need to set up proper notification channels and notify end-users of any problems or try and remedy the issues in an automated manner.
How to write a Zabbix book
August 7, 2020
Community
Books are a great way to transfer knowledge and experience to other users. Learn the best practices on how to write a Zabbix book yourself.
Fighting notification floods and misleading alerts in distributed Zabbix deployments
August 6, 2020
Conferences
Monitoring large and distributed networks poses relevant challenges to Zabbix administrators as it requires to analyze different and complex failure scenarios. Simple approaches can help to improve default templates to get rid of notification floods, false positives, and other misleading alerts, and to let Zabbix driving you to the right root cause.
Why alerting is important?
July 23, 2020
Community
It’s easy to miss critical messages when you get tons of them every day from various platforms. The out-of-the-box Zabbix monitoring and alerting functionality makes it possible to focus on the most important alerts. Learn the best practices on how to set and use Zabbix notifications.
A Journey Of Discovery
July 21, 2020
Case Study
Low-Level Discovery is built-in functionality in Zabbix, which automatically creates items, triggers, and graphs based on JSON input received from the Zabbix Agent or the Zabbix Server. Learn how to make your life as a Zabbix admin easier thanks to LLD.
Zabbix supports Ops — clever use of Event Tags in Remote Commands
July 16, 2020
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Remote commands are powerful yet underestimated feature of Zabbix to react on trigger-based events and fix basic issues automatically. However, they require a specific and complex setup to be used in a real-world environment. Learn how to use Zabbix actions and remote commands in a productive environment and how to make your setup simple and […]
Monitoring a dual-homed machine within Zabbix
July 14, 2020
Conferences
In this post, we will consider a setup for legacy networks, which is, combined with some API calls to the DNS server, allows for updating the entries automatically and facilitating an automatic failover. This presentation was delivered by Brian van Baekel, an experienced consultant and Zabbix trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions B.V., The Netherlands during Zabbix […]
Zabbix and SCADA: Who watches the watchers?
July 1, 2020
Case Study
The case about how Apache Corporation put Zabbix to work helping satisfy special requirements in the Oil & Gas industry where it is common to have more than one industrial automation supplier across multiple production and processing facilities. Consolidated monitoring of complex IT infrastructure, OEM industrial devices/services, custom applications, and integration with other open-source solutions.
Being an open-source minded in a closed source world. Interview with Zabbix Conference Benelux 2020 speaker Patrik Uytterhoeven.
February 26, 2020
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Patrik Uytterhoeven is an opensource minded consultant working for Open-Future – one of the oldest Zabbix partners. Patrik is a certified Zabbix trainer and also the author of the Zabbix Cookbook and co-author of the Zabbix 4 network monitoring book. At Zabbix Conference Benelux 2020 he will speak about upgrading Zabbix and migrating from PostgreSQL table […]
A Journey Of Discovery. Interview with Zabbix Conference Benelux 2020 speaker Frank Klaassen.
February 18, 2020
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Frank Klaassen is a Senior DevOps Engineer with a broad range of experience and interests. Monitoring plays an integral part in his career – he has been working with Zabbix since 2008 and either introduced or improved the usage of Zabbix at all companies he has worked for. At Zabbix Conference Benelux 2020 Frank will talk […]