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No matter what business you’re in, there is one universal truth – your success or failure depends on customer satisfaction and trust. And when your IT systems fail, it’s your customers who pay the price. Being unable to place an order due to unexpected downtime (which can cost a large organization as much as $9,000 […]

At the recent Zabbix Summit community meeting, participants gathered to discuss an exciting initiative – the creation of the first-ever community-driven Zabbix book. While several books about Zabbix have been published in the past (often written by individual authors over a decade ago), this project marks a new milestone. For the first time, Zabbix community […]

Lab9 Pro is the B2B division of Lab9, Belgium’s leading Apple Premium Partner. With over 30 years of experience, Lab9 Pro specializes in integrating and supporting Apple systems within businesses, educational institutions, and public organizations. Beyond Apple expertise, Lab9 Pro also designs, implements, and maintains complete IT infrastructures, including networks, servers, storage, and security solutions.

Zabbix Summit 2025 is officially in the history books, so now is the perfect time for a casual, behind‑the‑scenes run‑through of what went down. If you were there, this should ring a few bells (or spark some “oh hey, I forgot about that” moments). If you couldn’t make it, consider this your own personal highlight […]

If you are running Zabbix, you know that it can be a tedious job to add hosts, link templates, and (even harder) make sure it is consistent with your CMDB. What if you already have a CMDB? In that case, it means you need to synchronize the CMDB with Zabbix…manually? Of course not!

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 […]

Banco do Estado do Pará (Banpará) is the main public financial institution in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is a mixed-capital company, organized as a multiple bank with the mission of generating value for the state of Pará. It currently has approximately 198 physical customer service units and is present in all 144 municipalities […]

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 […]

There are plenty of good reasons to attend Zabbix Summit 2025, but one of the most important is the fact that this year’s Summit will feature Dylan Beattie as a special guest speaker. A Software Development Consultant and Founder of Ursatile, Dylan is an international keynote speaker, and a long-time contributor to the open-source 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. […]

October is just around the corner, and that annual shift into Q4 can mean only one thing – it’s almost Summit time! Zabbix Summit 2025 will take place on October 8-10 in Riga, Latvia at the Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija, and it’s shaping up to be the perfect blend of established traditions and fresh approaches […]

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 […]