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Configuring Grafana with Zabbix
November 4, 2019
How To
Integrate Zabbix with Grafana in just a few steps. Visualize collected data not only in native Zabbix frontend, but also in Grafana. Watch the video now.
Trend Prediction Tutorial in Zabbix 4.0
October 15, 2019
How To
Monitoring does not have to be about past and present. By utilizing trend prediction functions in Zabbix it is possible to analyze already collected data and predict the value in future. In that way, it is possible to get notified about the problem before it even happened.
Context Macro Support in Zabbix
October 15, 2019
How To
User macros with context can be used to accomplish more flexible thresholds in trigger expressions. Different thresholds may be defined on user macro level and then used in trigger constants depending on the discovered context. In this post we are going to check simple example, how to configure it in real life scenario.
Zabbix 4.2 — Prometheus Integration
October 1, 2019
How To
In latest release of Zabbix prometheus integration is available out of the box. It allows us to easily collect and parse metrics from collectors. Monitor them independently or create low level discovery rules for dynamically changing environments. Watch the video now.
Zabbix Remote Commands
September 25, 2019
How To
How to use Remote command functionality in Zabbix and what to keep in mind. Real life scenario of pro active monitoring of Windows services, to automatically start services that were stopped for any reason. And then use escalation support to notify people, if remote command did not help.
Zabbix Docker Containers
September 14, 2019
How To
How to install Zabbix from Docker containers. Watch the video now.
Apache HTTP Server monitoring
May 22, 2019
How To
Apache performance and understanding /server-status metrics Apache Statistics Module: mod_status Understanding website performance and Apache uptime should begin with external monitoring, i.e. Zabbix, which allows you to discover problems from a user’s perspective. Such problems involve:
Javascript support in item preprocessing
May 14, 2019
How To
With new preprocessing steps added to Zabbix in nearly every release, it became obvious that it’s impossible to predict every business case, so we had to come up with a universal solution. This, in turn, raised an important question – which embedded scripting language/engine to use.
Zabbix at GTD Group, Case Study
March 27, 2019
Case Study
“As one of the leading service providers in Chile, our key virtues drive us to be agile, reliable and caring for our customers’ experience and needs. Operating in the Internet, Telephony and TV sectors implies availability and consistency of everything we do. Being able to address all that is why we chose Zabbix.” – says Joel […]
Zabbix 4.2: Template and host-level tags
March 5, 2019
How To
In information systems word “tag” is a well-known and widely used term that helps to describe an item and allows it to be easily found again by browsing or searching.
Using Zabbix for Risk Management
February 28, 2019
Community
Any business, big or small, might become a target of DoS attacks or intrusion attempts at some point, which is a serious risk to consider. In order to tackle that issue, the ISO (International Standardization Organization) created a set of rules for companies to follow, thus improving the safety and quality of operations.