Monitoring a Starlink Dish with Zabbix
Curious about keeping tabs on your Starlink internet performance? Whether you're off-grid or just love tracking your network performance, this post has you covered!
Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 2: Adapt
April 29, 2026
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In this blog post, I will show you how to create a template for monitoring your Docker server with only API calls (without the Zabbix agent 2). Instead of creating a template, templated items, LLD rules, and trigger prototypes from scratch, we will adapt them from the existing template “Docker by Zabbix agent 2.” How […]
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 1: Inspect
April 22, 2026
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In this blog post, I will show you how to configure Zabbix to securely gather Docker API metrics using the Zabbix HTTP agent item with certificate authentication. This guide will cover configuring the Docker API and the Zabbix server side to gather data more securely. Getting the data to Zabbix from the Docker API By […]
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Optimizing Incident Management with Zabbix and PagerDuty
May 13, 2025
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When monitoring environments, we sometimes need to rely on third-party tools to better manage functionality and optimize responses to alerts. Let’s explore how to integrate Zabbix with PagerDuty, a real-time incident management solution designed to improve the reliability of digital services, including best practices and configuration details.
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Build a Culture of Monitoring and Get Buy-In with Zabbix
May 6, 2025
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In today’s fast-paced, interconnected IT world, simply waiting for something to fail before fixing it isn’t good enough. A proactive approach to monitoring, which aims to identify and address potential issues before they escalate into major disruptions, is a necessity rather than a luxury.
Michael Kammer
Getting Started with Zabbix – Hosts, Items, and Triggers
April 29, 2025
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Hosts, items, and triggers are some of the most basic concepts in Zabbix. To successfully configure their monitoring workflows, Zabbix users need to have a clear understanding of how these entities are used. This article is aimed at Zabbix beginners and should help anyone better understand the basics of Zabbix while providing guidance on how […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Enhancing Visualizations in Zabbix with the ECharts Module
April 17, 2025
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One of the great advantages of Zabbix is its extensible and modular architecture. This allows the platform to be enhanced with third-party modules, significantly expanding its functionalities without compromising the stability of the core system. The ECharts-Zabbix module is an excellent example of this flexibility in action.
Matheus da Silva Andrade
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Deploying Zabbix Components with Docker and Docker Compose
April 8, 2025
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Installing Zabbix from packages can feel overwhelming, due to the availability of different configuration options. The detailed and comprehensive documentation certainly helps to check the purpose of these multiple options, what values can be set in their fields, and if one is required for your planned deployment. There are quite a few official Zabbix blog […]
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Monitoring Windows servers with Zabbix agent
April 1, 2025
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Monitoring a Windows server helps verify and keep track of reboots, disk space, memory, CPU, communication loss, and high bandwidth consumption within the server – in fact, anything unusual that may require attention. In this post, we’ll see how to install and configure the Zabbix server and Zabbix agent on Windows, highlighting the key points […]
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