Technical

Zabbix 6.4 finally brings a very much waited feature called “Just-In-Time user provisioning”. Zabbix “What’s new in 6.4” LDAP/SAML user provisioning paragraph is very brief and can not (not that I am saying it should) deliver any excitement about this new really game changing feature. This blog post was born to address two points: explain in […]

In the previous blog post, we installed the Zabbix Agent Helm Chart and set up official Kubernetes templates to monitor a cluster in Zabbix. In this edition, part 2, we will explore the functionality provided by the Kubernetes integration in Zabbix and discuss use cases for monitoring and alerting on events in a cluster. (This […]

As you know, a picture is worth a thousand words. Therefore, I would like to share the process of creating a webhook from scratch. In this article, we will walk through the creation process step by step – starting with studying the target service with which Zabbix will integrate and finishing with tests for sending […]

Zabbix gives every community member the ability to extend their frontend functionality by writing their own frontend modules. In this video, we will go through the steps required to write a Zabbix frontend module and look at multiple code examples that will explain the steps behind successfully implementing a custom frontend module. The article is […]

Learn more about Zabbix business service monitoring features and check out our real-life use cases. The article is based on a Zabbix Summit 2022 speech by Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs.

Have you ever wanted a button to export specific data to CSV directly from Zabbix frontend? My friend Gregory and I have solved this problem.

In this blog post, I will cover Docker container monitoring with Zabbix. We will use the official Docker by Zabbix agent 2 template to make things as simple as possible. The template download link and configuration steps can be found on the Zabbix Integrations page. If you require a visual guide, I invite you to […]

Zabbix is not only a flexible and versatile monitoring system but also a convenient tool for generating alerts and integrating with existing service desks. Among the various integration methods, webhooks have become the most popular. In this blog post, we will take a look at what are webhooks, how they can be used to integrate […]

A newly revealed vulnerability impacting Apache Log4j 2 versions 2.0 to 2.14.1 was disclosed on GitHub on 9 December 2021 and registered as CVE-2021-44228 with the highest severity rating. Log4j is an open-source, Java-based logging utility widely used by enterprise applications and cloud services. By utilizing this vulnerability, a remote attacker could take control of […]

As your monitoring infrastructures evolve, you might hit a point when there’s no avoiding using the Zabbix API. The Zabbix API can be used to automate a particular part of your day-to-day workflow, troubleshoot your monitoring or to simply analyze or get statistics about a specific set of entities. In this blog post, we will […]

Zabbix API enables you to collect any and all information from your Zabbix instance by using a multitude of API methods. You can even utilize Zabbix API calls in your HTTP items. For example, this can be used to monitor the number of particular sets of metrics and visualize their growth over time. With named […]

There are many design choices to consider when we build our monitoring environment for high-frequency monitoring. How to minimize performance impact? What are the data retention policies with storage space in mind? What are the available out-of-the-box features to solve these potential problems? In this blog post, we will discuss when you should use preprocessing […]