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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.

MySQL performance tuning 101 for Zabbix

April 15, 2021 0Comments 3465Views

By Vittorio Cioe

In this post and the video, you will learn about a proper approach to getting the most out of Zabbix and optimizing the underlying MySQL Database configuration to improve performance while working with a database-intensive application such as Zabbix.

Low-Level Discovery with Dependent items

April 1, 2021 0Comments 2361Views

By Brian van Baekel

The low-level discovery was introduced in Zabbix 2.0 and still belongs to one of the all-time favorites. Before LLD was available, adding items was all manual work. For example adding new disks, new interfaces, network ports on switches and everything else was all manual labor. And then LLD came around and suddenly we were able to ‘discover’ entities, and based on those discovered entities we can add new items, triggers, and such automatically.

Keep all secrets encrypted and secure

March 16, 2021 0Comments 1992Views

By Kaspars Mednis

Zabbix needs to be secure as Zabbix configuration contains credentials, which are used to access all other systems, and the data collected from those systems may contain very sensitive information. In addition, Zabbix can execute remote commands on your production servers.

Finalizing the installation of Zabbix Agent with Ansible

March 4, 2021 0Comments 4397Views

By Werner Dijkerman

In the previous blog posts, we created a Zabbix Server with a new user, a media type, and an action. In the 2nd blog post, we continued with creating and configuring a Zabbix Proxy. In the last part of this series of blog posts, we will install the Zabbix Agent on all of the 3 nodes we have running.

Installing and configuring the Zabbix Proxy

March 3, 2021 0Comments 2896Views

By Werner Dijkerman

In the previous blog post, we created a Zabbix Server setup, created several users, a media type, and an action. But today, we will install on a 3rd node the Zabbix Proxy. This Zabbix Proxy will have its database running on the same host, so the “node-3” host has both the MySQL and Zabbix Proxy running.

Installing the Zabbix Server with Ansible

March 2, 2021 0Comments 5266Views

By Werner Dijkerman

Today we are focusing more on the automation of installation and software configuration instead of using the manual approach. Installing and configuring software the manual way takes a lot more time, you can easily make more errors by forgetting steps or making typos, and it will probably be a bit boring when you need to do this for a large number of servers.

Managing complexity in Zabbix installations with Splunk

February 26, 2021 0Comments 1992Views

By Christian Anton

A big data analytics engine can be used to optimize large and complex Zabbix installations: keeping track of the amount and kind of problems over time, top alert producers, and much more. You can employ Splunk to optimize and analyze vital Zabbix runtime parameters, such as ‘unsupported items,’ repeatedly happening host availability issues, misconfigured agents, and Zabbix Queue entries.

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.

Scaling Zabbix with containers

February 10, 2021 0Comments 6212Views

By Robert Silva

In this post, a new approach with Zabbix in High Availability is explained, as well as discussed challenges when implementing Zabbix using Docker Swarm with CI / CD and such technologies as Containers, Docker Swarm, Gitlab, and CI/CD.