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Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #29: Discovering hosts and services with network discovery
May 12, 2022
Handy Tips
Automate host creation and monitoring with Zabbix network discovery. Creating hosts for a large number of monitoring endpoints can become a menial and time-consuming task. It is important to provide the end-users with the tools to automate such tasks to create and start monitoring hosts based on a user-defined set of rules and conditions. Automate […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #28: Keeping track of your services with business service monitoring
April 28, 2022
Handy Tips
Configure and deploy flexible business services and monitor the availability of your business and its individual components. The availability of a business service tends to depend on the state of many interconnected components. Therefore, detecting the current state of a business service requires a sufficiently complex and flexible monitoring logic. Define flexible business service trees […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #27: Tracking changes with the improved Zabbix Audit log
April 14, 2022
Handy Tips
Track the creation of new entities, updates to the existing configuration, and potential intrusion attempts with Zabbix audit log. If your monitoring environment is managed by more than a single administrator, it can become hard to track the implemented changes and additions. Having a detailed audit log can help you analyze any potentially unwanted changes […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #26: Displaying infrastructure status with the Geomap widget
April 1, 2022
Handy Tips
Display and track the status of your infrastructure on your dashboards by using the Zabbix Geomap widget. As your IT infrastructure grows and branches out, it can become more and more complicated to track the status of each and every infrastructure component. IT infrastructure administrators need to find a way to present the state of […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #25: Securing Zabbix logins with password complexity settings
March 17, 2022
Handy Tips
Secure your Zabbix logins from brute-force and dictionary attacks by defining password complexity requirements. Enforcing an organization-wide password policy can be extremely unreliable if we don’t have a toolset to enforce these policies. By using native password complexity settings, we can provide an additional layer of security and ensure that our users follow our organization’s […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Zabbix security advisories regarding CVE-2022-23131 and CVE-2022-23134
February 25, 2022
News
Here at Zabbix, the security of our product is our top priority. It has come to our attention that two potential CVE issues have been highlighted in tech media outlets – CVE-2022-23131 and CVE-2022-23134. The most critical issue – CVE-2022-23131, affects only Zabbix instances where SAML SSO authentication is in use. While CVE-2022-23134 Affects Zabbix […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #24: Preventing downtimes with The Zabbix HA cluster
February 24, 2022
Handy Tips
Configure automated failover between Zabbix server nodes with the native Zabbix server HA cluster. Preventing downtimes is as vital for a monitoring solution as it is for any other component of an organization’s IT infrastructure. High availability and automated failover can help you prevent unwanted downtimes by supporting multiple application nodes and failing over between […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Zabbix 6.0 LTS is out now!
February 15, 2022
News
The Zabbix team is proud to announce the release of Zabbix 6.0 LTS. The latest version comes packed with many new features, improvements, new templates and integrations.
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #23: Suppressing problems with Zabbix maintenance periods
February 10, 2022
Handy Tips
Suppress unwanted problems during planned maintenance by defining Zabbix maintenance periods. Planned downtimes due to maintenance are a part of every administrator’s life. Be it updating your software or upgrading the underlying hardware – sooner or later we will need to schedule a planned downtime. We also need to find a way to suppress the […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #22: Deploying Zabbix in the AWS cloud platform
January 31, 2022
Handy Tips
Deploy a production-ready Zabbix instance in the AWS cloud platform with just a few clicks. With a major paradigm shift to cloud IT infrastructures, many organizations opt-in to migrate their on-prem systems to the Cloud. Zabbix provides official cloud images for the most popular cloud vendors including the AWS cloud platform. Deploy the complete Zabbix […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #21: Deploying Zabbix Server with Docker containers
January 19, 2022
Handy Tips
Deploy Zabbix components in docker containers for advanced automation, scalability, and maintenance. In the past few years, containers have gained prevalence and are being used for many different tasks – from application development to improving automation and management of existing software. Deploy Zabbix components in Docker containers: Official Docker images are available for individual components […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #20: Agentless metric collection with SSH checks
January 13, 2022
Handy Tips
Collect the results of SSH commands with Zabbix agentless SSH checks. In environments where Zabbix agent installation is forbidden either by company policies or due to restrictions on the monitored device, we can utilize one of the multiple agentless metric collection methods. One such type of metric collection method is Zabbix SSH checks. Collect metrics […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer