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Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 2: Adapt
April 29, 2026
Handy Tips
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 […]
Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 1: Inspect
April 22, 2026
Handy Tips
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 […]
Using Frontend Scripts to the Max with Rick van der Ploeg
February 20, 2025
Community
Zabbix Conference Benelux 2025 is right around the corner, which means that it’s time for another interview with a Conference presenter. This week, we’re talking to Rick van der Ploeg, a Zabbix consultant and expert at Opensource ICT Solutions. We asked him about the road that led him to Zabbix and how frontend scripts can […]
The ATS Group and a Regional Telecom Provider
February 14, 2025
Case Study
Our Premium Partners at the ATS Group have a regional telecom provider on the West Coast of the United States as one of their key clients. The provider covers a massive geographical area on a limited budget and serves thousands of (primarily rural) customers.
Feeding Zabbix MQTT Data with Ivo Schooneman
February 11, 2025
Community
This year’s Zabbix Conference Benelux is rapidly approaching, and to whet our audience’s appetite we sat down for a short interview with one of the conference’s featured presenters. Open Source Consultant Ivo Schooneman works for our Certified Partner Xifeo ICT B.V., and we quizzed him about how he got started in the open-source movement, what […]
Creating a Personal Assistant in Zabbix with Artificial Intelligence
February 5, 2025
How To
Zabbix is dedicated to monitoring IT infrastructures based on predetermined thresholds, such as servers, networks, and applications. Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into Zabbix as a complement allows a user to mitigate alerts based on these predetermined thresholds, offering possible causes and solutions to problems. This can help a user resolve incidents more efficiently.
Migration to Zabbix 7.0
January 30, 2025
Case Study
Based in northern Brazil, TO HOST Data Centers provides regional cloud services with a focus on cloud computing, colocation, and infrastructure management. With 35 suppliers and partners and over 5,000 monitored assets, their mission is to provide innovative IT infrastructure products and services with a high level of proficiency, in order to meet the high […]
Monitoring Sensor Data with Zabbix and Modbus Protocol
January 23, 2025
How To
This week’s blog entry comes to us from Nyein Chan Zaw, who is based in Bangkok, Thailand and works as an Infrastructure Specialist for Green Will Solution. Read on to see how he uses his integrating a Modbus protocol with Zabbix to monitor data from temperature, humidity, and smoke sensors — and display their metrics […]
