Author Archives: Richlv

Spelling mistakes no more…

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Richlv

…in the configuration files, that is. For a long time, if you made a mistake in a configuration parameter’s name, Zabbix processes would not really tell you about that. This is finally changing with Zabbix 1.8.6.

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Monitoring community

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Richlv

One of the promises of Zabbix is an ability to monitor pretty much anything. That is possible using various extending capabilities on the Zabbix server, binary agent and elsewhere. Maybe we can monitor some aspects of Zabbix community using Zabbix … Continue reading →

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Monitoring how busy Zabbix processes are

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Richlv

In the past, quite often Zabbix users have been puzzled regarding some server tuning parameters – for example, how many pollers do they need? It was usually determined based on experience, testing and a bit of guesstimating. No more fuzzy … Continue reading →

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Zabbix conference dates confirmed

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Richlv

If you have visited Zabbix webpage recently, you already know that Zabbix conference and 10 year anniversary celebration dates have been confirmed. A shiny banner would have informed you about them. UPDATE: conference postponed.

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Dropping IE6 support for Zabbix 2.0

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Richlv

There are many browsers in the world. Some better, some worse, some unusable. But some are just legendary. Probably no other browser version has ever been written and spoken about as much as one some of Zabbix users might have … Continue reading →

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Shiny, happy Zabbix frontend

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Richlv

With all the snow outside, Zabbix developers have been busy indoors, working on neat features for Zabbix 2.0. While many of those are low level and don’t result in visually pleasing screenshots, just today a significant change was merged to … Continue reading →

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It’s Winter in Zabbixland

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Richlv

Just a couple of pictures of what’s happening at the home of Zabbix. Short version – winter is here.

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Looking Back at T-DOSE 2010

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Richlv

The opensource conference T-DOSE in Eindhoven, Netherlands took place a bit more than a week ago. It provided good coverage of different subjects, including KVM, Devops, Open GIS, puppet and lots more. And, of course, Zabbix.

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Zabbix Web Monitoring in 20 Steps

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Richlv

Zabbix has built-in web monitoring, which provides scenario support – user workflow emulation on the webpage. There are also some neat predefined graphs on the scenario level. Dedicated Zabbix translator zalex_ua has shared some of these predefined graphs… from scenario … Continue reading →

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Are We Popular or What?

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Richlv

For a long time Zabbix has gone largely unnoticed in the world of monitoring systems. Despite being around for almost 10 years and having several unique features for the time (and still today) like Zabbix proxy, it was not something … Continue reading →

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