Feeding Zabbix MQTT Data with Ivo Schooneman

This year’s Zabbix Conference Benelux is rapidly approaching, and to whet our audience’s appetite we sat down for a short interview with one of the conference’s featured presenters. Open Source Consultant Ivo Schooneman works for our Certified Partner Xifeo ICT B.V., and we quizzed him about how he got started in the open-source movement, what led him down the path to Zabbix, and how he sees Zabbix and MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) fitting into a new world of connected and smart devices.

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Creating a Personal Assistant in Zabbix with Artificial Intelligence

Zabbix is dedicated to monitoring IT infrastructures based on predetermined thresholds, such as servers, networks, and applications. Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into Zabbix as a complement allows a user to mitigate alerts based on these predetermined thresholds, offering possible causes and solutions to problems. This can help a user resolve incidents more efficiently.

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Migration to Zabbix 7.0

Based in northern Brazil, TO HOST Data Centers provides regional cloud services with a focus on cloud computing, colocation, and infrastructure management. With 35 suppliers and partners and over 5,000 monitored assets, their mission is to provide innovative IT infrastructure products and services with a high level of proficiency, in order to meet the high standards required by their clients and partners. To do this, they need to monitor internal applications, data center assets, devices, and customer environments, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.

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Change is the Only Constant: 2024 in Review

Time waits for no one, and as impossible as it may seem, one of the most consequential years in the history of Zabbix is already in the books. You can be forgiven for feeling at times like we were trying to cram a decade of events into a single year, which is why we’ve prepared this handy look back at the highlights of 2024 – just in case there’s anything you were too busy to notice as it happened!

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Solving Log Monitoring Challenges at SEB Bank

SEB Bank is a major financial services group based in Stockholm, Sweden. It serves northern Europe, particularly the Nordic and Baltic regions. Known for its digital innovation and commitment to sustainability, SEB offers banking, investment, and financial advisory services to individuals, businesses, and institutions, focusing on long-term relationships and financial stability. This case study, which shows how Zabbix helped SEB solve its log monitoring challenges, discusses aspects specific to SEB’s operations in the Baltics, where distinct systems and structures are in place but are aligned with the group’s overall approach.

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File Integrity Monitoring with Zabbix

We have often seen Zabbix used as a simple tool for monitoring network assets as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure. While this concept is not incorrect, it is equally important to understand that with the advancement of Zabbix versions, more and more functionalities have been made available for other types of monitoring, enabling advanced data analysis and stunning visualizations through new and modern widgets in the frontend layer.

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NetBox as Home CMDB and Integrated with Zabbix

Welcome to another episode of What’s up, home? weirdness! Who wouldn’t have their own NetBox at home – and who wouldn’t think of it as a  home CMDB? I’ve just started experimenting with it. For those who do not know, a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is the source of truth for your inventory of stuff. In data centers, it keeps track of your servers, their cables, and everything else, telling you in which data center and which rack they are.

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