In today’s digital era, information is an asset and most of it is obtained from websites. The ability to automatically monitor website content changes has become a crucial competitive advantage, as even small changes on a website can affect business strategies, security postures, and data-driven decision-making. Accordingly, Zabbix 7.0 saw the introduction of a new feature called Browser Item, which allowed users to perform advanced website monitoring using a browser.
No matter what business you’re in, there is one universal truth – your success or failure depends on customer satisfaction and trust. And when your IT systems fail, it’s your customers who pay the price. Being unable to place an order due to unexpected downtime (which can cost a large organization as much as $9,000 per minute) or having their credit card data compromised in a preventable security breach (which costs the average organization nearly $5 million) will force even your most loyal customers to go somewhere else.
At the recent Zabbix Summit community meeting, participants gathered to discuss an exciting initiative – the creation of the first-ever community-driven Zabbix book. While several books about Zabbix have been published in the past (often written by individual authors over a decade ago), this project marks a new milestone. For the first time, Zabbix community members from around the world are coming together to co-author a book, share their expertise, and tell the Zabbix story from many perspectives.
Lab9 Pro is the B2B division of Lab9, Belgium’s leading Apple Premium Partner. With over 30 years of experience, Lab9 Pro specializes in integrating and supporting Apple systems within businesses, educational institutions, and public organizations. Beyond Apple expertise, Lab9 Pro also designs, implements, and maintains complete IT infrastructures, including networks, servers, storage, and security solutions.
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 for a solution I accidentally discovered that Starlink was already providing service to some local companies. As I later found out, they also offered service in my area for residential customers.
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 reel!
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.
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 in the state.
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.
