Prevent receiving a flood of unwanted alerts and receive only the most critical notifications by defining trigger dependencies. Every IT infrastructure has multiple elements, failure of which can cause a cascading set of problems across the particular infrastructure segment. It is important to prevent an unwanted alert storm and highlight only the root cause problem […]

Today we will take a look at the top 10 reasons to migrate to Zabbix 6.0 LTS. We will discuss features and changes included not only in Zabbix 6.0 LTS but also in major intermediate versions – Zabbix 5.2 and Zabbix 5.4. The full recording of the speech is available on the official Zabbix Youtube […]

Distribute your monitoring by deploying a lightweight Zabbix SQLite proxy in 5 minutes. Monitoring remote data centers can be challenging when the data collection is performed from a single location. Distributed monitoring can help us resolve potential issues such as loss of data in case of network outages, horizontal scalability, and much more. Distribute and […]

Collect metrics in bulk and reduce monitoring performance overhead with master and dependent items. Data collection efficiency is an important aspect of monitoring. We need to ensure that our monitoring approach has a minimal impact both on the monitoring system and the system that is being monitored. Improve your metric collection efficiency and reduce the […]

Configure Zabbix agent autoregistration to automatically deploy and start monitoring Zabbix agent hosts. As your IT infrastructure scales up, there comes a point where manual host creation is simply not feasible. At this point, the preferable approach is to find a way to automate host deployment. Deploy and manage hosts automatically with Zabbix active agent […]

A newly revealed vulnerability impacting Apache Log4j 2 versions 2.0 to 2.14.1 was disclosed on GitHub on 9 December 2021 and registered as CVE-2021-44228 with the highest severity rating. Log4j is an open-source, Java-based logging utility widely used by enterprise applications and cloud services. By utilizing this vulnerability, a remote attacker could take control of […]

Zabbix 6.0 LTS comes packed with many new enterprise-level features and improvements. Join Artūrs Lontons and take a look at some of the major features that will be available with the release of Zabbix 6.0 LTS. The full recording of the speech is available on the official Zabbix Youtube channel.

Deploy Zabbix Agent to collect OS-level metrics. There are multiple approaches to collecting OS-level metrics – from collecting only simple ping statistics to deploying an SNMP agent or using custom scripts. In many cases, this is either not sufficient or too time-consuming and not flexible enough. By deploying the Zabbix Agent you can enable a […]

Group, aggregate, and visualize your collected metrics with the Graph widget to obtain additional insights. Sometimes simple graphs may not be sufficient – we may need to visualize data trends, display all metrics matching a pattern, or define custom draw styles for specific metrics. The Graph widget allows you to visualize your metrics in an […]

With the rapid evolution and proliferation of different cloud services, many organizations have decided to move parts of their infrastructures from on-prem to cloud. As an essential part of your infrastructure, Zabbix is no exception – you always have the option to either deploy Zabbix on-prem or select from one of the many supported cloud […]

Now that the Zabbix Summit Online 2021 has concluded, we are thrilled to report we hosted attendees from over 3000 organizations from more than 130 countries all across the globe. This year, the main focus of the speeches was the upcoming Zabbix 6.0 LTS release, as well as speeches focused on automating Zabbix data collection […]

Metrics collected by Zabbix can be used not only for historic data analysis and problem detection but they can also be utilized to populate your host inventory. Keeping track of your host inventory is a necessity in organizations of every size. Using another tool to do that can be costly and cause software bloat and […]