Did you realize that you can monitor a Starlink dish using just Zabbix? The idea (or rather the need) to use Starlink came to me almost as soon as I moved to a fairly rural area. Local internet providers have not yet “provided” fiberoptic or stable mobile connectivity to places like this, and while searching […]

Zabbix Summit 2025 is officially in the history books, so now is the perfect time for a casual, behind‑the‑scenes run‑through of what went down. If you were there, this should ring a few bells (or spark some “oh hey, I forgot about that” moments). If you couldn’t make it, consider this your own personal highlight […]

If you are running Zabbix, you know that it can be a tedious job to add hosts, link templates, and (even harder) make sure it is consistent with your CMDB. What if you already have a CMDB? In that case, it means you need to synchronize the CMDB with Zabbix…manually? Of course not!

High availability on a platform like Zabbix is a hard requirement for many users. With native high availability on the Zabbix servers, proxies, and at the frontend through various solutions for web servers, all that’s left is at the database layer. Any downtime in your MariaDB database would disrupt your monitoring availability, at the least […]

Banco do Estado do Pará (Banpará) is the main public financial institution in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is a mixed-capital company, organized as a multiple bank with the mission of generating value for the state of Pará. It currently has approximately 198 physical customer service units and is present in all 144 municipalities […]

Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment demands reliability and resilience. When your monitoring solution is down, you’re flying blind – and for many organizations, that simply isn’t acceptable. This post introduces a robust high-availability (HA) architecture for Zabbix, using PostgreSQL,  Patroni, etcd, HAProxy, keepalived and PgBackRest. Built on RHEL 9 or […]