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Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Making PaperCut NG Observable with Zabbix
November 18, 2025
Handy Tips
In most organizations, printing is an essential but often invisible service. When it works, nobody notices. When it fails, productivity stalls. That’s why monitoring your print environment is just as important as monitoring servers, databases, or network devices.
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Building HA Zabbix with PostgreSQL and Patroni
September 16, 2025
Community
Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment demands reliability and resilience. When your monitoring solution is down, you’re flying blind – and for many organizations, that simply isn’t acceptable. This post introduces a robust high-availability (HA) architecture for Zabbix, using PostgreSQL, Patroni, etcd, HAProxy, keepalived and PgBackRest. Built on RHEL 9 or […]
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Migrating from PRTG to Zabbix: A High-Level Guide
September 2, 2025
Community
For companies looking to migrate from PRTG Network Monitor to Zabbix, one of the most critical aspects is making sure a smooth migration of monitored devices and configurations. While there is no official tool to directly migrate between the two platforms, creating a bridge using custom export/import scripts allows for an effective and large migation. […]
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Running Zabbix with PostgreSQL and PG Auto Failover
August 12, 2025
Handy Tips
Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment requires bulletproof availability at the database layer. Any downtime in PostgreSQL, even for seconds, can disrupt monitoring visibility, triggering blind spots in alerts and data collection.
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Monitoring Failed Jobs in NetBackup with Zabbix
October 23, 2024
Community
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 […]
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Making Patient Care Easier with Zabbix and Open-Future
July 11, 2024
Case Study
The Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) is a university center known for top clinical and customer-friendly patient care, high-quality academic training, and groundbreaking scientific research with an important international dimension. The UZA has 593 hospital beds in 26 nursing units, as well as 41 highly specialized medical services where more than 800,000 patients are consulted every […]
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Securing the Zabbix Frontend
March 27, 2024
Handy Tips
The frontend is what we use to login into our system. The Zabbix frontend will connect to our Zabbix server and our database. But we also send information from our laptop to the frontend. It’s important that when we enter our credentials that we can do this in a safe way. So it makes sense […]
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
How to write a Zabbix book
August 7, 2020
Community
Books are a great way to transfer knowledge and experience to other users. Learn the best practices on how to write a Zabbix book yourself.
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Upgrade Zabbix and migrate to PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB
July 7, 2020
Case Study
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.
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS