database

If you find yourself needing additional flexibility when it comes to database monitoring, Zabbix agent 2 may be exactly what you need. Keep reading to see which features make it ideal for database monitoring and find out how to best use them for your own purposes. 

In this blog post, you will learn how to set up backups for your Zabbix environment. There’s a wide variety of different options when it comes to taking backups of our Zabbix environment, for us, it will just be a matter of choosing the right fit.

Zabbix allows its users to configure custom data retention periods for different types of data – from history and trend storage periods to user session storage periods. Data retention requirements can vary a lot between different environments. With considerations to data storage footprint and company policies, some environments might require storing months of historical data, […]

Zabbix Agent 2 enables our users to monitor a whole set of new systems with minimal configuration required on the monitored systems. Forget about writing custom monitoring scripts, deploying additional packages, or configuring ODBC. A great use-case for Zabbix Agent 2  is monitoring one of the most popular NoSQL DB backends – MongoDB. Below, you […]

From this post and the video, you’ll learn about the possibilities of database monitoring using out-of-the-box Zabbix functionality without having to install additional tools, additional applications, or additional software that might not be allowed by your company.

In this post and the video, you will learn about a proper approach to getting the most out of Zabbix and optimizing the underlying MySQL Database configuration to improve performance while working with a database-intensive application such as Zabbix.

In this blog post, you will learn how to set up MySQL partitioning using existing community resources. If you wish to learn more about Zabbix MySQL database partitioning, check out this blog post for an extensive guide below. This guide is meant to work for all most prominent MySQL features including MySQL 8, MariaDB or […]

In today’s class let’s talk about where the disk space goes. Which items and hosts objects consume the disk space the most.

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.

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.

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.

Every monitoring system has to deal with three kinds of performance-related challenges. Firstly, a good monitoring system must receive, process and record incoming data very quickly. Every microsecond counts here. This may not seem obvious from the start but when your system becomes large enough all the tiny fractions of seconds add up to become […]