PostgresSQL is one of the supported database engines that Zabbix uses to store all configuration data and history. The popularity of Postgres makes it a very sought-after Database engine for Zabbix. TimescaleDB is a great extension to Postgres that empowers Zabbix with native partitioning functionality and data compression, which saves a lot of disk space for our users.
This article will recall the most important theses about the plugin for PostgreSQL monitoring for Zabbix Agent 2. Here you’ll find the explanation of how the plugin works under the hood illustrated with a simple example. You will also get familiar with a new mechanism of custom queries that let you collect metrics from separate SQL files on PC.
Open-Future is a company based in Nossegem (Belgium), focused exclusively on the open-source market. Read the case showing how the company upgraded to Zabbix 4.4 and migrated from PostgreSQL table partitioning to PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB to ensure Zabbix support.
If you find yourself needing additional flexibility when it comes to database monitoring, Zabbix agent 2 may be exactly what you need. Keep reading to see which features make it ideal for database monitoring and find out how to best use them for your own purposes.
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.
Our Premium Partners at the ATS Group have a regional telecom provider on the West Coast of the United States as one of their key clients. The provider covers a massive geographical area on a limited budget and serves thousands of (primarily rural) customers.
Zabbix 7.2 is out now and available for download! The latest Zabbix major release introduces a range of new visualization features and widgets while adding a variety of updated monitoring features to support new use cases and scenarios. Read more to find out about the latest Zabbix features and improvements.
An audit improves the security of a product, specifically the “non-repudiation” aspect in threat-models (risks are reduced when threat-agents cannot deny they did malicious activity). Zabbix 5.0 already had audit functionality, which received a major rewrite in 6.0 and several updates since then. In this blog post, we will go through them and get an overall picture of what has changed (and why).
Scripts can extend Zabbix in various different aspects. If you know your ways around a CLI, you will be able to extend your monitoring capabilities and streamline workflows related to most Zabbix components.
My name is Mark Vilensky, and I’m currently the Scientific Computing Manager at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. I’ve been working in High-Performance Computing (HPC) for the past 15 years.
It hardly seems possible, but somehow 2023 is already in the rearview mirror. It’s been quite a ride, full of dynamic growth, popular events, new releases, and exciting additions to our global community. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the highlights!
Zabbix team is pleased to announce the release of the latest Zabbix major version – Zabbix 6.4. The release…
