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Zabbix 5.0 – My happiness and disenchantment

May 11, 2021 0Comments 1996Views

By Dennis Ananiev

Zabbix is an open-source solution, and all features are available out of the box for free. You don’t have to pay for the pro, or business, or community versions. You can download Zabbix source files or packages from the official site and use them in your enterprise or your home lab, test and apply or even suggest your changes. Zabbix offers many new features in every release, and it’s an excellent approach to interact with the community. This post will share my experience with Zabbix and my opinion of improvements made in Zabbix 5.2.

HARP Adopts the Latest LTS Version ’Zabbix 5.0’ to Expand Future Service Infrastructure

March 30, 2021 0Comments 1126Views

By Jekaterina Petruhina

HARP, which has provided ASP and SaaS services to the Hokkaido government and local governments within Hokkaido, promoting shared IT infrastructure and electronic application and facility reservation services, has been using Zabbix for about ten years and has moved to the latest LTS version, Zabbix 5.0. As digital technologyʼs role in local government functions increases, the company is working to make more comprehensive monitoring platforms a reality.

Zabbix migration in a mid-sized bank environment

February 16, 2021 0Comments 1876Views

By Angelo Porta

A real CheckMK/LibreNMS to Zabbix migration for a mid-sized Italian bank (1,700 branches, many thousands of servers and switches). The customer needed a very robust architecture and ancillary services around the Zabbix engine to manage a robust and error-free configuration.

Data solution for solar energy application

January 12, 2021 0Comments 1521Views

By Brad Berwald

Morningstar, the world’s leading supplier of solar controllers for remote solar power systems, has partnered with Zabbix to provide pre-configured integration of their data-enabled solar power products with the Zabbix network monitoring solution. Now, both power system data and network performance metrics integrate seamlessly to allow remote solar systems to be monitored and managed from a single software platform on the premise or in the cloud, using solutions from Zabbix.

Let me subscribe – Zabbix masters IoT topics

December 29, 2020 0Comments 3538Views

By Wolfgang Alper

Zabbix 5.2 supports two important protocols used in the world of the Internet of Things — MQTT and Modbus. Now we can benefit from the newest Zabbix features and integrate Zabbix network monitoring in the world of IoT.

Close problem automatically via Zabbix API

November 20, 2020 0Comments 4793Views

By Aigars Kadiķis

Today we are talking about a use case when it’s impossible to find a proper way to write a recovery expression for the Zabbix trigger. In other words, we know how to identify problems. But there is no good way to detect when the problem is gone.

Wherever You Are – Take Your Zabbix With You

September 10, 2020 0Comments 3045Views

By Ronald Czachara

Being on duty in a 24×7 IT team might not be fun. Planning duty schedules in Excel, having a shared on-call phone, or searching relevant information in a sea of emails makes it even worse. There is a better way. Integrating the lightweight alerting app SIGNL4 with Zabbix makes the life of an on-call engineer easier, and it allows the IT manager to see what’s going on at any time.

A Journey Of Discovery

July 21, 2020 0Comments 2723Views

By Frank Klaassen

Low-Level Discovery is built-in functionality in Zabbix, which automatically creates items, triggers, and graphs based on JSON input received from the Zabbix Agent or the Zabbix Server. Learn how to make your life as a Zabbix admin easier thanks to LLD.

Upgrade Zabbix and migrate to PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB

July 7, 2020 0Comments 4794Views

By Patrik Uytterhoeven

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.

Zabbix and SCADA: Who watches the watchers?

July 1, 2020 0Comments 10121Views

By Yuri Suslov

The case about how Apache Corporation put Zabbix to work helping satisfy special requirements in the Oil & Gas industry where it is common to have more than one industrial automation supplier across multiple production and processing facilities. Consolidated monitoring of complex IT infrastructure, OEM industrial devices/services, custom applications, and integration with other open-source solutions.