Technical

Learn how to extend Zabbix agent functionality by adding your own checks that can be both – dynamic and static.

SNMP traps report device failure very quickly, what increases server, services, and application availability. Receiving SNMP Traps in Zabbix is easy. In just a couple of minutes, your instance will be ready to receive, process and react any incoming trap.

Learn how to build a geographically distributed monitoring solution based on Zabbix combined with other opensource tools like Elasticsearch, Percona, HAproxy, and PowerDNS.

Build a scalable and highly available Zabbix monitoring system by scaling it on database level with MySQL InnoDB cluster. It guarantees data consistency and automated conflict resolution, automated failover, and self-healing.

Learn how Zabbix can help you to build a security monitoring solution to detect various IT infrastructure vulnerabilities like weak configurations, open ports, unsecured web-pages, physical intrusions, corrupted files, and many other issues.

Sometimes it is required to monitor not only a performance of database, but also the data inside it. Zabbix has native functionality to query the database, visualize and process the data. Watch the video now.

Zabbix 4.4 introduces a new type of agent, zabbix_agent2, which offers a wide range of new capabilities and advanced monitoring functions.

What are the different ways you can use Zabbix preprocessing and why you should consider implementing it in your environment? Let’s take a brief look at how Zabbix preprocessing has evolved and the technical nuances of transforming and storing your preprocessed data.

Processing of XML documents were never as easy as now. Xpath preprocessing is available as a native functionality without any third party scripts or modules. Write your xpath query and use it against your XML document to extract desired value.

Integrate Zabbix with Grafana in just a few steps. Visualize collected data not only in native Zabbix frontend, but also in Grafana. Watch the video now.

Monitoring does not have to be about past and present. By utilizing trend prediction functions in Zabbix it is possible to analyze already collected data and predict the value in future. In that way, it is possible to get notified about the problem before it even happened.

User macros with context can be used to accomplish more flexible thresholds in trigger expressions. Different thresholds may be defined on user macro level and then used in trigger constants depending on the discovered context. In this post we are going to check simple example, how to configure it in real life scenario.