Category Archives: Technical

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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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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Performance improvements in Zabbix 1.8, part 2

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Richlv

So in part 1 we found out that Zabbix 1.8.1 provided significant performance improvements over 1.6, mostly because of reduced database access. But those who have been following “What’s new” section in Zabbix manual might be aware that both 1.8.2 … Continue reading →

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Performance improvements in Zabbix 1.8, part 1

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Richlv

Zabbix is being constantly improved – functionality, usability and also performance wise. Let’s look at some practical effects on what all these performance improvements have provided in 1.8 series. As some might recall, Zabbix 1.8 alone was promising a huge … Continue reading →

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