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Handy Tips #11: Collect and send custom metrics with Zabbix sender
November 11, 2021
Handy Tips
Collect custom metrics from your in-house applications and forward them to your Zabbix instance by utilizing the Zabbix sender command-line tool. As you scale up our monitoring, you will inevitably encounter a situation where a particular metric can be quite complex to collect with native monitoring techniques. Zabbix sender can use multiple methods to ingest […]

Handy Tips #10: Zabbix agent item Allow and Deny lists
November 4, 2021
Handy Tips
Restrict access to sensitive information by defining Zabbix agent item Allow and Deny lists. Zabbix agent enables Zabbix users to collect a multitude of metrics. In some environments collection of a particular metric should be restricted to prevent access to confidential data. Zabbix Agent Allow and Deny lists enable users to define flexible metric collection […]

Handy Tips #4: Control access to Zabbix functionality with user roles
September 23, 2021
Handy Tips
With user roles, you can control user access to specific UI elements and actions, define API method allow and deny lists, and more. Before the introduction of user roles, the only way to restrict access to Zabbix features was to use the three hard-coded user types: Zabbix User, Zabbix Admin, and Zabbix Super Admin. This […]