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Handy Tips
The First Steps Toward Monitoring with Zabbix and SNMP
March 11, 2025
Handy Tips
In this article, we’ll explore how to use Zabbix to monitor a MikroTik device via SNMP, using specific templates that allow you to visualize the status of interfaces and their performance. Read on to understand how to use network monitoring to ensure the correct operation and performance of devices in an infrastructure employing the SNMP […]
Monitoring VMware vSphere with Zabbix
November 20, 2024
Handy Tips
Zabbix is an open-source monitoring tool designed to oversee multiple IT infrastructure components, including networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services. It operates using both agent-based and agentless monitoring methods. Agents can be installed on monitored devices to collect performance data and report back to a centralized Zabbix server.
Maximizing TCO and ROI with Open-Source Solutions
November 6, 2024
Community
In recent years, the debate around total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) for open-source solutions has intensified, particularly within the scope of technology operations. With increasingly complex IT infrastructures and pressure to optimize costs, the choice between open-source and proprietary solutions has become a crucial strategic decision. By using a platform […]
Monitoring My Home Network with Zabbix
October 16, 2024
Community
Recently, we reached out to the members of our global community with an invitation to share their dashboards and give us a quick tour of what they do with our product. The response was so incredible that we have decided to highlight a few of the most interesting submissions here on our blog.
My Zabbix is down, now what? Restoring Zabbix functionality
September 18, 2024
Handy Tips
We’ve all been in a situation in which Zabbix was somehow unavailable. It can happen for a variety of reasons, and our goal is always to help you get everything back up and running as quickly as possible. In this blog post, we’ll show you what to do in the event of a Zabbix failure, […]
Migrating from Datadog to Zabbix with Custom Metric Submission
August 22, 2024
Handy Tips
For a few years, I’ve been monitoring 3 Digital Ocean servers with Datadog and using Datadog DogStatsD to submit custom metrics to Datadog. I am a big fan of Datadog and will continue recommending them. However, it became a bit too expensive for my needs, so I started looking for alternative options.
Securing the Zabbix Frontend
March 27, 2024
Handy Tips
The frontend is what we use to login into our system. The Zabbix frontend will connect to our Zabbix server and our database. But we also send information from our laptop to the frontend. It’s important that when we enter our credentials that we can do this in a safe way. So it makes sense […]
Handy Tips #40: Simplify metric pattern matching by creating global regular expressions
November 10, 2022
Handy Tips
Streamline your data collection, problem detection and low-level discovery by defining global regular expressions.
Handy Tips #39: Extracting metrics from structured data with Zabbix preprocessing
October 26, 2022
Handy Tips
Collect structured data in bulk and use Zabbix preprocessing to extract and transform the necessary metrics. Collecting data from custom monitoring endpoints such as web applications or custom in-house software can result in the collected data requiring further extraction or transformation to fit our requirements. Use Zabbix preprocessing to extract metrics from structured data: Extract […]
Handy Tips #38: Automating SNMP item creation with low-level discovery
September 22, 2022
Handy Tips
Let Zabbix automatically discover and start monitoring your SNMP data points. Creating items manually for each network interface, fan, temperature sensor, and other SNMP data points can be a very time-consuming task. To save time, Zabbix administrators need to automate item, trigger, and graph creation as much as possible. Automate item, trigger and graph creation […]
Handy Tips #37: Collecting metrics from HTTP endpoints with HTTP agent items
September 8, 2022
Handy Tips
Collect metrics from HTTP endpoints such as web application APIs by defining HTTP agent items. Collecting metrics from web services and applications is a complex affair usually done by scripting around CLIs and APIs. Organizations require an efficient way to monitor such and endpoints and react to collected data. Collect and react to data from […]
Handy Tips #36: Collecting custom metrics with Zabbix agent user parameters
August 25, 2022
Handy Tips
Define custom agent keys to collect custom metrics by executing scripts or commands with Zabbix user parameters. Having a simple way to extend the metric collection functionality of a monitoring tool can be vital if we wish to monitor custom in-house software or simply collect metrics not available out of the box. Collect custom metrics […]
