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Supercharge Zabbix with powerful insights
February 18, 2021
Conferences
A new set of trigger functions for long-term analysis of trend data will allow Zabbix to analyze historical data and generate alerts on detected anomalies.
Scaling Zabbix with containers
February 10, 2021
Community
In this post, a new approach with Zabbix in High Availability is explained, as well as discussed challenges when implementing Zabbix using Docker Swarm with CI / CD and such technologies as Containers, Docker Swarm, Gitlab, and CI/CD.
Save 2 clicks, test data preprocessing
February 4, 2021
How To
This topic is related to template development from scratch, bulk data input, and a lot of dependable items having different preprocessing steps each. If these keywords resonate with you, keep reading.
What takes disk space
January 28, 2021
How To
In today’s class let’s talk about where the disk space goes. Which items and hosts objects consume the disk space the most.
Getting your notifications via Signal
January 26, 2021
How To
Recently, Whatsapp pushed their new privacy policy where they announced to share more data with Facebook, causing an exodus to other platforms, where Signal is one of the more popular ones, among Telegram. Both are great alternatives, but I prefer Signal due to the open-source part, end to end encryption, and last but not least: […]
Examine Data Overview
January 21, 2021
How To
In this lab, let’s practice to create an on-screen report of the data (most recent metrics) which is very important for us. This post represents one technique how to advance from functionality under: “Monitoring” => “Overview”.
Summarize devices that are not reachable
January 14, 2021
How To
In this lab, we will list all devices which are not reachable by a monitoring tool. This is good when we want to improve the overall monitoring experience and decrease the size queue (metrics which has not been arrived at the instance).
Let me subscribe – Zabbix masters IoT topics
December 29, 2020
Case Study
Zabbix 5.2 supports two important protocols used in the world of the Internet of Things — MQTT and Modbus. Now we can benefit from the newest Zabbix features and integrate Zabbix network monitoring in the world of IoT.
How to upgrade to Zabbix 5.2
December 22, 2020
How To
Zabbix recently released the new 5.2 version with awesome new features overviewed in the video, such as hashicorp vault, IoT monitoring, improved performance, granular permission system, and much more. The upgrade to the latest Zabbix 5.2 is fast and easy.
Lift and shift your Zabbix to Oracle Cloud with MySQL database service
December 16, 2020
Community
If you are tired of administering the infrastructure on your own and would prefer to gain time to focus on real monitoring activities rather than costly platform upgrades, you can easily lift and shift your MySQL-based Zabbix installation stack to Oracle Cloud.
Staying up to date when using official Zabbix packages
December 11, 2020
How To
It is not a secret that Zabbix maintains package repositories for multiple GNU/Linux distributions to make installing the software and staying up to date with the latest releases as easy as possible. To make use of the official Zabbix packages one should follow the instructions on https://www.zabbix.com/download. In this article, we would like to talk about […]
Close problem automatically via Zabbix API
November 20, 2020
Case Study
Today we are talking about a use case when it’s impossible to find a proper way to write a recovery expression for the Zabbix trigger. In other words, we know how to identify problems. But there is no good way to detect when the problem is gone.