Handy Tips

Collect and react on entries in your Windows or Linux logs with Zabbix log monitoring. Log file entries can contain OS or application-level information that can help you react proactively to potential issues or track the root cause of a problem after it has occurred.  For this reason, keeping a constant lookout for issues in […]

Provide context and define custom problem thresholds by using Zabbix user macros. Problem thresholds can vary for the same metric on different monitoring endpoints. We can have a server where having 10% of free space is perfectly fine, and a server where anything below 20% is a cause for concern. Define Zabbix user macros with […]

Suppress problems indefinitely or until a specific point in time with the problem suppression feature. There are plenty of use cases when detected infrastructure or business problems need to be temporarily suppressed, and the alerting workflows have to be paused. This applies to scenarios such as emergency maintenance, unexpected load on your systems, migrations to […]

Deploy your Zabbix servers and proxies in the Azure cloud. There are many use cases where deploying your Zabbix server or Zabbix proxies in the cloud can reduce costs, provide an additional layer of security and redundancy, and improve the available management toolset. Deploy your Zabbix instance in the Azure cloud with the official Zabbix […]

Monitor and react to unexpected or faulty outputs from your monitoring targets by using Zabbix validation preprocessing. In case of a failure, some monitoring endpoints like sensors or specific application or OS level counters can start outputting faulty metrics. Such behavior needs to be detected and reacted to as soon as possible. Use Zabbix preprocessing […]

Analyze your incoming metrics and look for interruptions in continuously increasing or decreasing metrics with the monoinc and monodec history functions. A continuous increase or decrease is the norm for metrics such as server uptime, time remaining until a task is executed, number of daily transactions, and many other such use cases. A software or […]

Automate host creation and monitoring with Zabbix network discovery. Creating hosts for a large number of monitoring endpoints can become a menial and time-consuming task. It is important to provide the end-users with the tools to automate such tasks to create and start monitoring hosts based on a user-defined set of rules and conditions. Automate […]

Configure and deploy flexible business services and monitor the availability of your business and its individual components. The availability of a business service tends to depend on the state of many interconnected components. Therefore, detecting the current state of a business service requires a sufficiently complex and flexible monitoring logic. Define flexible business service trees […]

Track the creation of new entities, updates to the existing configuration, and potential intrusion attempts with Zabbix audit log. If your monitoring environment is managed by more than a single administrator, it can become hard to track the implemented changes and additions. Having a detailed audit log can help you analyze any potentially unwanted changes […]

Display and track the status of your infrastructure on your dashboards by using the Zabbix Geomap widget. As your IT infrastructure grows and branches out, it can become more and more complicated to track the status of each and every infrastructure component. IT infrastructure administrators need to find a way to present the state of […]

Secure your Zabbix logins from brute-force and dictionary attacks by defining password complexity requirements. Enforcing an organization-wide password policy can be extremely unreliable if we don’t have a toolset to enforce these policies. By using native password complexity settings, we can provide an additional layer of security and ensure that our users follow our organization’s […]

Configure automated failover between Zabbix server nodes with the native Zabbix server HA cluster. Preventing downtimes is as vital for a monitoring solution as it is for any other component of an organization’s IT infrastructure. High availability and automated failover can help you prevent unwanted downtimes by supporting multiple application nodes and failing over between […]