Handy Tips

Suppress unwanted problems during planned maintenance by defining Zabbix maintenance periods. Planned downtimes due to maintenance are a part of every administrator’s life. Be it updating your software or upgrading the underlying hardware – sooner or later we will need to schedule a planned downtime. We also need to find a way to suppress the […]

Deploy a production-ready Zabbix instance in the AWS cloud platform with just a few clicks. With a major paradigm shift to cloud IT infrastructures, many organizations opt-in to migrate their on-prem systems to the Cloud. Zabbix provides official cloud images for the most popular cloud vendors including the AWS cloud platform. Deploy the complete Zabbix […]

Deploy Zabbix components in docker containers for advanced automation, scalability, and maintenance. In the past few years, containers have gained prevalence and are being used for many different tasks – from application development to improving automation and management of existing software. Deploy Zabbix components in Docker containers: Official Docker images are available for individual components […]

Collect the results of SSH commands with Zabbix agentless SSH checks. In environments where Zabbix agent installation is forbidden either by company policies or due to restrictions on the monitored device, we can utilize one of the multiple agentless metric collection methods. One such type of metric collection method is Zabbix SSH checks. Collect metrics […]

Prevent receiving a flood of unwanted alerts and receive only the most critical notifications by defining trigger dependencies. Every IT infrastructure has multiple elements, failure of which can cause a cascading set of problems across the particular infrastructure segment. It is important to prevent an unwanted alert storm and highlight only the root cause problem […]

Distribute your monitoring by deploying a lightweight Zabbix SQLite proxy in 5 minutes. Monitoring remote data centers can be challenging when the data collection is performed from a single location. Distributed monitoring can help us resolve potential issues such as loss of data in case of network outages, horizontal scalability, and much more. Distribute and […]

Collect metrics in bulk and reduce monitoring performance overhead with master and dependent items. Data collection efficiency is an important aspect of monitoring. We need to ensure that our monitoring approach has a minimal impact both on the monitoring system and the system that is being monitored. Improve your metric collection efficiency and reduce the […]

Configure Zabbix agent autoregistration to automatically deploy and start monitoring Zabbix agent hosts. As your IT infrastructure scales up, there comes a point where manual host creation is simply not feasible. At this point, the preferable approach is to find a way to automate host deployment. Deploy and manage hosts automatically with Zabbix active agent […]

Deploy Zabbix Agent to collect OS-level metrics. There are multiple approaches to collecting OS-level metrics – from collecting only simple ping statistics to deploying an SNMP agent or using custom scripts. In many cases, this is either not sufficient or too time-consuming and not flexible enough. By deploying the Zabbix Agent you can enable a […]

Group, aggregate, and visualize your collected metrics with the Graph widget to obtain additional insights. Sometimes simple graphs may not be sufficient – we may need to visualize data trends, display all metrics matching a pattern, or define custom draw styles for specific metrics. The Graph widget allows you to visualize your metrics in an […]

Metrics collected by Zabbix can be used not only for historic data analysis and problem detection but they can also be utilized to populate your host inventory. Keeping track of your host inventory is a necessity in organizations of every size. Using another tool to do that can be costly and cause software bloat and […]

Zabbix allows its users to configure custom data retention periods for different types of data – from history and trend storage periods to user session storage periods. Data retention requirements can vary a lot between different environments. With considerations to data storage footprint and company policies, some environments might require storing months of historical data, […]