Technical

Why do we recommend upgrading to the latest version? Zabbix 5.0 goes with improved stability, performance, and security, as well as provides technical support for the next five years. What’s important, Zabbix 5.0 supports TimescaleDB, which is designed to enhance performance and compresses the data.

This guide describes how to integrate Zabbix 4.4 with Mattermost using the Zabbix Webhook feature and provides instructions on setting up a media type, a user and an action in Zabbix.

SNMP is one of the most used monitoring types inside Zabbix. But it is also one of the most frustrating tools to configure for newcomers. Even experienced guys tend to make simple mistakes during configuration, which later lead to a lot of issues with flapping items, interfaces, false-positive notifications, or even worse.

Zabbix 5.0 released with a list of crucial improvements in security. Arturs Lontons, Zabbix Technical Engineer and Trainer, unveiled what has been added or improved. Contents I. Improvements in Zabbix 5.0 (1:16:11) 01. TLS support for frontend communication with database (1:16:53) 02. TLS support for server/proxy communication with database (1:19:20) 03. Configurable ciphers (1:21:16) 04. Masker […]

One of the most technically experienced Zabbix trainers – Dmitry Lamberts reveals his five important improvements that were included in Zabbix 5.0 LTS release. Read the recap from Zabbix Online Meetup in English where Dmitry shared his advice on new features.

With Zabbix 5.0 LTS version we hosted Zabbix meetups all over the world in different languages to find out what’s new in Zabbix 5.0. Explore Zabbix founder and CEO Alexei Vladishev’s brief overview of the 30+ features and improvements made in Zabbix 5.0 LTS.

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the release of Zabbix 5.0 LTS. It comes with a list of significant improvements in usability, security, and integrity. 

Maps — one of many visualization options inside the Zabbix, a way to display your collected data, show the problems and create your topology. A map is more than a simple picture. It includes many small but very useful key features.

Low-level discovery (LLD) functionality allows you to dynamically monitor all your environment for metrics that can change from time to time, and also can be and are different between multiple servers. Zabbix monitoring software will connect to the device, check for entities that exist on it, and based on discovery output create regular items and […]

Opensource ICT Solutions designed integration with Zabbix that makes it possible to monitor a big environment and use Opsgenie to centralize alerting and make the on-call scheduling for managers a lot easier. Read more and learn how to set up the integration in this post.

Network discovery is a good feature to simplify your daily routine on maintaining rapidly changing environment. Active registration is good, but it is limited only to hosts with Zabbix agent, while network discovery does not have any limitations.

With calculated items, you can create calculations based on other items. The values will be periodically calculated based on an arithmetical expression and done by the Zabbix server – nothing  is performed on Zabbix agents or proxies.