Dashboard widgets have received substantial improvements in the latest Zabbix releases – everything from brand-new widgets to greatly expanding upon existing widget features. The post will cover some of the new improvements as well as lesser-known dashboard and widget features, while discussing multiple dashboard use cases targeted at large organizations and MSPs.
When monitoring environments, we sometimes need to rely on third-party tools to better manage functionality and optimize responses to alerts. Let’s explore how to integrate Zabbix with PagerDuty, a real-time incident management solution designed to improve the reliability of digital services, including best practices and configuration details.
In today’s fast-paced, interconnected IT world, simply waiting for something to fail before fixing it isn’t good enough. A proactive approach to monitoring, which aims to identify and address potential issues before they escalate into major disruptions, is a necessity rather than a luxury.
Here at Zabbix, we’ve got plenty of reason to believe that we offer the most flexible monitoring solution available on the market today. However, choosing the best monitoring tool for your organization’s needs is only half the battle – you also need to get buy-in from team members who may not understand the need for monitoring, may be fearful of and resistant to change, and may not be familiar with the technologies behind monitoring.
Hosts, items, and triggers are some of the most basic concepts in Zabbix. To successfully configure their monitoring workflows, Zabbix users need to have a clear understanding of how these entities are used. This article is aimed at Zabbix beginners and should help anyone better understand the basics of Zabbix while providing guidance on how to start monitoring your initial set of hosts.
One of the great advantages of Zabbix is its extensible and modular architecture. This allows the platform to be enhanced with third-party modules, significantly expanding its functionalities without compromising the stability of the core system. The ECharts-Zabbix module is an excellent example of this flexibility in action.
Installing Zabbix from packages can feel overwhelming, due to the availability of different configuration options. The detailed and comprehensive documentation certainly helps to check the purpose of these multiple options, what values can be set in their fields, and if one is required for your planned deployment. There are quite a few official Zabbix blog posts about Zabbix in containers, and this post is aimed at showcasing how additional Zabbix components can be easily set up in a docker environment, along with docker run and docker compose examples.
Monitoring a Windows server helps verify and keep track of reboots, disk space, memory, CPU, communication loss, and high bandwidth consumption within the server – in fact, anything unusual that may require attention. In this post, we’ll see how to install and configure the Zabbix server and Zabbix agent on Windows, highlighting the key points that will keep your system running smoothly.
Can you monitor the signal strength of different Wi-Fi devices that are connected to your (home) router with Zabbix? Of course you can! This is a really quick post that also shows how ChatGPT or any LLM can boost your productivity when doing this kind of thing.
Monitoring data storage systems is the key to keeping modern IT systems running smoothly. With the rapid growth of data and the need for instant access, using high-performance solutions like Pure Storage FlashArray is not just an advantage – it’s a necessity. However, even the most advanced systems require careful oversight regarding their performance and health. Good monitoring helps find problems early and makes it possible to use resources more efficiently. In this article, we will explore how to set up monitoring for the Pure Storage FlashArray storage system with Zabbix using our new templates.
One of the most critical clients of our Premium Partners at the ATS Group is a large MSP that acts as a service and administration platform for their own clients, providing them with hardware, software, engineers, support staff, metrics, and reporting.
In this article, we’ll explore how to use Zabbix to monitor a MikroTik device via SNMP, using specific templates that allow you to visualize the status of interfaces and their performance. Read on to understand how to use network monitoring to ensure the correct operation and performance of devices in an infrastructure employing the SNMP protocol.
A well-designed monitoring dashboard is the key to helping users process, interact with, and analyze data. Done right, it allows key decision-makers to track metrics and gain insights in an organized, easy-to-read format, while giving technical teams complete visibility into IT performance at a single glance. Done wrong, it creates information overload, with too much of everything – too many graphs, colors, widgets, and other sources of information, making it at best deceptive and at worst completely useless.
