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Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Running Zabbix with MariaDB and Galera Active/Active Clustering
September 30, 2025
Community
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 […]
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Proxy Group Load Balancing with SNMP Traps
August 19, 2025
Case Study
The new Zabbix proxy groups provide us with a method to provide both redundancy and load balancing in our Zabbix proxy setups. However, one major limitation arises when we want to use SNMP traps with these new proxy groups – it isn’t natively supported at the moment. One of our customers asked me to find […]
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Migrating Nagios to Zabbix: Lessons Learned
August 5, 2025
Community
Recently, a new customer of ours at Opensource ICT Solutions asked whether we could migrate their Nagios instance to Zabbix. Because Nagios and Zabbix are very different in their storage methods, we told them that we would have to investigate and see if we could come up with a viable solution. It wasn’t long until […]
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Monitoring the London Underground with Zabbix
April 4, 2024
Arguably the most famous public transportation system in the entire world, the London Underground is Europe’s third-busiest metro system, carrying an average of 2.7 million passengers every day. But did you know that Zabbix is a crucial element in its operation? Let’s have a look at how Zabbix proved itself to be the ideal monitoring […]
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Monitoring your cat’s health with Zabbix and the Litter Robot 3
January 27, 2023
Community
In this blog post, you will learn how to set up monitoring for your Litter Robot 3. There’s some amazing community scripts already available to connect to the Litter Robot through a selfmade API, which we’ll be using in combination with some Python scripts and Zabbix.
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Backups to the rescue!
September 30, 2022
How To
In this blog post, you will learn how to set up backups for your Zabbix environment. There’s a wide variety of different options when it comes to taking backups of our Zabbix environment, for us, it will just be a matter of choosing the right fit.
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Setting up manual ticket creation using Zabbix frontend scripts
September 9, 2021
How To
In this blog post, you will learn how to set up manual ticket creation through the use of Zabbix frontend scripts. We will use Jira Service Desk as an example, but this guide should work for any type of service desk or help desk system, as we can apply this technique for other systems in […]
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Partitioning a Zabbix MySQL(8) database with Perl or Stored Procedures
March 9, 2021
How To
In this blog post, you will learn how to set up MySQL partitioning using existing community resources. If you wish to learn more about Zabbix MySQL database partitioning, check out this blog post for an extensive guide below. This guide is meant to work for all most prominent MySQL features including MySQL 8, MariaDB or […]
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Parsing SNMP Traps with Python or Bash – A net-snmp-perl alternative
August 18, 2020
Community
Opensource ICT Solutions designed a Python and Bash script for Zabbix that makes it possible parse SNMP traps to Zabbix without the use of net-snmp-perl. Read more and learn how to set up the scripts in this post.
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Scheduling and escalation made easy – Zabbix and Opsgenie integration
April 23, 2020
Community
Opensource ICT Solutions designed integration with Zabbix that makes it possible to monitor a big environment and use Opsgenie to centralize alerting and make the on-call scheduling for managers a lot easier. Read more and learn how to set up the integration in this post.
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions