Technical

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).

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

Opensource ICT Solutions designed a Python and Bash script for Zabbix that makes it possible parse SNMP traps to Zabbix without the use of net-snmp-perl. Read more and learn how to set up the scripts in this post.

Have you ever wanted to automatically discover and monitor all your listening TCP ports for one machine? In this blog post, we will teach you another simple way to do it.

Monitoring large and distributed networks poses relevant challenges to Zabbix administrators as it requires to analyze different and complex failure scenarios. Simple approaches can help to improve default templates to get rid of notification floods, false positives, and other misleading alerts, and to let Zabbix driving you to the right root cause.

Today we will share knowledge on how to detect if time settings are off your Windows or Linux machine.