Monitoring backup solutions can be an arduous task – especially since many backup tools don’t provide APIs and simply are not easy to work with. One such solution – NetBackup – provides its own set of challenges, but fortunately we have Zabbix, with its low-level discovery (LLD) features and the possibility to leverage user parameters to extend Zabbix agent.
Recently, we reached out to the members of our global community with an invitation to share their dashboards and give us a quick tour of what they do with our product. The response was so incredible that we have decided to highlight a few of the most interesting submissions here on our blog.
In what has become a highly anticipated annual tradition, Zabbix employees, partners, users, and just plain fans from every corner of the globe showed up in Riga on October 4 and 5 for Zabbix Summit 2024, celebrating a very special open-source monitoring solution that unites us all.
Zabbix Summit 2024 is only a few days away, which means that it’s time for the last of our interviews with Summit speakers. Our final chat this year is with Tomáš Heřmánek, the CEO and Founder of initMAX s.r.o. We asked him about his beginnings in the tech industry, how he got started with Zabbix, and how AI will change the game for monitoring in general and Zabbix in particular.
With Zabbix Cloud you can near-instantly deploy a feature-complete Zabbix environment fine-tuned for best possible performance.
Discover how our partners at ATS Group designed and implemented a custom Zabbix solution that allowed a large managed service provider (MSP) to monitor and manage a vast array of client devices across multiple data centers.
We’ve all been in a situation in which Zabbix was somehow unavailable. It can happen for a variety of reasons, and our goal is always to help you get everything back up and running as quickly as possible. In this blog post, we’ll show you what to do in the event of a Zabbix failure, and we’ll also go into detail about how to work with the Zabbix technical support team to resolve more complex issues.
To help make sure that everyone’s up to speed with Zabbix Summit 2024 speakers and their topics, we’re continuing our series of interviews with Andre Morton of AGM Network Consultancy LTD. Keep reading to learn how he feels Zabbix can alleviate the typical pain points of managed service providers (MSPs), see how he uses Zabbix to maintain control of his network, and find out what he appreciates most about Zabbix.
Zabbix plays a crucial role in monitoring all kinds of “things” – IoT devices, domains, cloud infrastructures and more. It can also be integrated with third-party solutions – for example, with Oxidized for configuration backup monitoring. Given the nature of Zabbix, it usually contains a lot of confidential information as well as (more importantly) some kind of elevated access to network elements while being used by operators, engineers, and customers. This requires that Zabbix as a product should be as secure as possible.
For a few years, I’ve been monitoring 3 Digital Ocean servers with Datadog and using Datadog DogStatsD to submit custom metrics to Datadog. I am a big fan of Datadog and will continue recommending them. However, it became a bit too expensive for my needs, so I started looking for alternative options.
At Zabbix, we’ve championed the open-source movement, with its emphasis on openness, transparency, and cooperation, from day one. Because of this, prospective customers and partners often have questions about the security of our product – the fear being that open-source software is somehow less secure than proprietary software.
The objective of this project was to establish a robust and integrated environment for the continuous monitoring of code quality and performance metrics. To achieve this, SonarQube, an open-source platform for the continuous inspection of code quality, was installed on AlmaLinux. Following its setup, SonarQube was seamlessly integrated with Zabbix, an enterprise-class open-source distributed monitoring solution, to enable the dynamic monitoring of various projects. This integration aimed to provide our team at Zen Networks with real-time visibility into key metrics such as bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells for ongoing projects.
