How To

In this lab we will use a bash environment and utilities ‘curl’ and ‘jq’ to perform Zabbix API calls, do some scripting.

Zabbix API calls can be used through the graphical user interface (GUI), no need to jump to scripting. An application to perform API calls is called Postman.

Sometimes we need much more than collecting generic data from our servers or network devices. For high-frequency monitoring, we need functionality to offload сore components from the extensive load. Throttling is the exact thing that will allow you to drop repetitive values on a Pre-processing level and collect only changing values.

Preprocessing is a great tool to make data collection precise and crystal clear. That’s why we prepared some great examples of how you can use that tool to achieve the same.

Some integration might require complex operations and data processing. So, at a certain point, if you have never used the API, you might need to use the API to solve some integration issues.

Zabbix proxy is a major component in the whole Zabbix architecture. As a result, very often failure of one proxy can lead to dramatic results in all monitoring setup causing a storm of events and problems.

Zabbix proxies allow you to monitor a remote location, a DMZ, and even use cases as using proxies to ‘convert’ passive checks into active or move some load from your Zabbix server towards the proxies is a common solution.

Multi-tenant architecture quite often is a primary requirement. When we think not only about monitoring our own infrastructure, but also about providing monitoring as a service for our customers, many questions come up in terms of design and required software functionality.

Being on duty in a 24×7 IT team might not be fun. Planning duty schedules in Excel, having a shared on-call phone, or searching relevant information in a sea of emails makes it even worse. There is a better way. Integrating the lightweight alerting app SIGNL4 with Zabbix makes the life of an on-call engineer […]

In this post, we’ll discuss how to secure your data sent through Zabbix from the database frontend to the database and the other way around.

The new whitelist and blacklist functionality in Zabbix 5.0 may help to secure your environment. Learn how and why using this functionality in the following blog post.

This post outlines how to use Zabbix and iLert with multiple on-call teams, where each team is responsible for a set of host groups in Zabbix, and therefore, will only receive alerts for the services it is responsible for. But first, let’s start with the basic needs when being on-call.