Category Archives: Technical

When Alexei isn’t looking…

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Aleksandrs Saveljevs

Normally, Alexei is the one that directs Zabbix development: which bugs are meant to be fixed and which features are meant to be implemented. However, sometimes Alexei is too busy to pay enough attention to what developers are doing, and … Continue reading →

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Shark attack

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Richlv

Zabbix is used to monitor many of the world’s biggest environments. But it also monitors its own (albeit small) environment. And this environment recently saw a shark attack.

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Storing images in the Zabbix database

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Richlv

The encoding, database and the dog Zabbix provides a network map feature, where images may represent triggers, hosts, host groups etc. They may show current status, problem count and lots of other data. There are some default images that may … Continue reading →

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Reloading configuration cache

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Richlv

Zabbix daemons use various approaches to improve performance. One such measure, introduced in Zabbix 1.8, is configuration cache. It resulted in massive performance improvements (up to 10 times), mostly because of a significantly reduced database access (that we looked at … Continue reading →

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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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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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Zabbix Source Code Trivia

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Aleksandrs Saveljevs

The development of a monitoring solution, now called Zabbix, started way back in 1999. From the functional perspective, Zabbix is much more capable now than it was 11 years ago. However, is it possible that some of this functionality is … Continue reading →

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