Category Archives: Technical

Zabbix 2.2 features, part 9 – No more full page reload in latest data

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Richlv

The Monitoring -> Latest data page in the Zabbix frontend allows to see values for items. Items are grouped by application (if assigned), and they can be expanded and collapsed. Previously, any such operation would result in a full page … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 8 – Reusing content in web monitoring

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Richlv

In several previous articles in the Zabbix 2.2 series we already discussed several improvements for web monitoring – the ability to template it, customise the amount of retries and the ability to specify an HTTP proxy on the scenario level. … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 7 – Value extracting from logfiles and more

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Richlv

In the previous article in 2.2 series we explored a new ability to extract values from a webpage. This was not the only feature that was extended this way – several other items gained similar functionality – notably, file content parsing … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 6 – Returning values from webpages

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Richlv

Zabbix has allowed to check whether a webpage contains a specific string for a long time – using the web.page.regexp[] agent item one could verify whether page contents match a regular expression or not, and return the matched string. But … Continue reading →

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Environmental monitoring with Zabbix

Posted on April 26, 2013 by alfsolli

So who cares about monitoring the environment? You. Or, you should! In this setting, we’re not talking about the environment in the same sense Greenpeace and the other environmental activist groups do. Not to dismiss the importance of their work, … Continue reading →

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Improved Zabbix API documentation

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Pavels

Exciting news! After a lot of hard work and hundreds of cups of coffee we’re proud to announce that the new documentation of the Zabbix API is complete.  The improved API documentation provides both a high level overview of the … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 5 – Better value mapping

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Richlv

Value mapping is a neat, little feature in Zabbix that allows to see what a numeric code actually means. Well, what did that mean? For example, a UPS device might return “2″, which means “all is OK”, and “3″, which … Continue reading →

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Newly documented APIs

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Pavels

We’ve recently published the documentation for some of the APIs that have been introduced in 2.0 but had not been covered in the manual at all. If you are a Zabbix expert, you’re probably already aware of their existence, but if … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 4 – HTTP proxy for web monitoring

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Richlv

Having explored two other improvements to the built-in web monitoring – ability to template it and change retry count – let’s take a look at another one. Until Zabbix 2.2, it was not possible to set HTTP proxy for web monitoring… … Continue reading →

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“Why on earth was I not notified?!”

Posted on January 16, 2013 by volter

“Why on earth was I not notified?!” — ever heard that question from a fellow worker? Setting up notifications can be a challenge — and not only for beginners. Normally, debugging such cases is cumbersome, complex and requires a good … Continue reading →

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