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 on the frontend side of things in case of proxy buffering. Let’s have a look at the easiest way to create a high availability (HA) architecture for Zabbix using MariaDB with built-in Galera clustering – by removing single points of failure from your database and finalizing the HA puzzle for Zabbix.
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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 derrivates, this solution combines modern open-source tools to provide automatic failover, load balancing, and seamless monitoring, all while maintaining consistency and performance.
Can you imagine being able to schedule maintenance in Zabbix by simply telling a program: “I need to put the web server in maintenance tomorrow from 8 to 10 with ticket 100-178306”? That’s exactly what the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scheduler Zabbix project I’ve developed does!
There are plenty of good reasons to attend Zabbix Summit 2025, but one of the most important is the fact that this year’s Summit will feature Dylan Beattie as a special guest speaker. A Software Development Consultant and Founder of Ursatile, Dylan is an international keynote speaker, and a long-time contributor to the open-source community. He’s also a Microsoft MVP and has created Rockstar, an esoteric programming language that started as an inside joke and ended up being featured in Classic Rock magazine.
For companies looking to migrate from PRTG Network Monitor to Zabbix, one of the most critical aspects is making sure a smooth migration of monitored devices and configurations. While there is no official tool to directly migrate between the two platforms, creating a bridge using custom export/import scripts allows for an effective and large migation. This blog post outlines a practical approach to achieving that migration based on the export/import methodology we at Opensource ICT Solutions previously implemented for one of our clients.
October is just around the corner, and that annual shift into Q4 can mean only one thing – it’s almost Summit time! Zabbix Summit 2025 will take place on October 8-10 in Riga, Latvia at the Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija, and it’s shaping up to be the perfect blend of established traditions and fresh approaches – we’ve been at this for a (very lucky) 13 years now, and we’d like to think we’ve kept the aspects of the Summit experience that everyone knows and loves while adding a few twists! Here’s what you can expect for the price of admission:
The new Zabbix proxy groups provide us with a method to provide both redundancy and load balancing in our Zabbix proxy setups. However, one major limitation arises when we want to use SNMP traps with these new proxy groups – it isn’t natively supported at the moment. One of our customers asked me to find a solution to that problem, so here’s how I went about it.
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Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment requires bulletproof availability at the database layer. Any downtime in PostgreSQL, even for seconds, can disrupt monitoring visibility, triggering blind spots in alerts and data collection.
Zabbix has been the backbone of my infrastructure for over ten years, a journey I’ve been on from version 3.2 to 7.4. It’s a robust and reliable tool. However, in the age of intelligent assistants, I posed a question to myself: Why can’t I interact with my monitoring system as naturally as I talk with Maria, my generative AI assistant?
