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One of the new features in Zabbix 7.0 LTS is proxy load balancing. As the documentation says: Proxy load balancing allows monitoring hosts by a proxy group with automated distribution of hosts between proxies and high proxy availability. If one proxy from the proxy group goes offline, its hosts will be immediately distributed among other […]

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 […]

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 […]

Track TLS/SSL certificate validity and expiration using the new Zabbix agent 2 template. Previously, Zabbix users had to rely on custom scripts to monitor website certificates as there was no native out-of-the-box solution to check TLS or SSL certificate validity and expiration date. This problem has been solved with the introduction of the new WebCertificate […]

Automate pattern detection in collected values. The new find history function provides multiple ways of searching for patterns in collected data. Previously, Zabbix had multiple trigger functions for detecting string patterns – str, regexp, and iregexp. To simplify the history analysis, they were merged into a single Find function. In Zabbix 5.4 release, we have […]

The new whitelist and blacklist functionality in Zabbix 5.0 may help to secure your environment. Learn how and why using this functionality in the following blog post.

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.

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 […]

Zabbix comes with an impressive list of supported metrics for virtually all platforms. It covers the monitoring of performance and availability of OS including CPU, memory, network, processes, files, kernel parameters and more. Zabbix also performs agent-less checks for well-known services such as FTP, SSH, IMAP, POP3, HTTP, TCP, etc.