zabbix monitoring

Webhooks in Zabbix

Zabbix is not only a flexible and versatile monitoring system but also a convenient tool for generating alerts and integrating with existing service desks. Among the various integration methods, webhooks have become the most popular. In this blog post, we will take a look at what are webhooks, how they can be used to integrate Zabbix with an external solution, and also take a look at some use case examples for webhook integrations.

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Zabbix security advisories regarding CVE-2022-23131 and CVE-2022-23134

Here at Zabbix, the security of our product is our top priority. It has come to our attention that two potential CVE issues have been highlighted in tech media outlets  –  CVE-2022-23131 and CVE-2022-23134.

The most critical issue – CVE-2022-23131, affects only Zabbix instances where SAML SSO authentication is in use. While CVE-2022-23134 Affects Zabbix 5.4.x releases older than Zabbix 5.4.9.

Zabbix is aware of the following vulnerabilities And they have since been fixed in Zabbix version 5.4.9 and the stable release of Zabbix 6.0 LTS.

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Tags in Zabbix 6.0 LTS – Usage, subfilters and guidelines

Starting from Zabbix 5.4, item tags have completely replaced applications. This design decision has allowed us to implement many new usability improvements – from providing additional information and classification to the tagged entities, to defining action conditions and security permissions by referencing specific tags and their values. Let’s take a look at how tags are defined in the official Zabbix templates and some of the potential tag use cases when configuring actions and access permissions.

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Monitoring Juniper Mist wireless network

As Premium Zabbix partner, Opensource ICT Solutions is building Zabbix solutions all over the world. That means we have customers with a broad variety of requirements, thoughts on how to monitor things, which metrics are important and how to alert upon it. If one of those customers approaches us with a question concerning a task the likes of which we have never done before, it’s a challenge. And we love challenges! This blog post will cover one such challenge that we solved some time ago.

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Zabbix meets television – Clever use of Zabbix features by Wolfgang Alper / Zabbix Summit Online 2021

TV broadcasting infrastructures have seen many great paradigm shifts over the years. From TV to live streaming – the underlying architecture consists of many moving parts supplied by different vendors and solutions. Any potential problems can cause critical downtimes, which are simply not acceptable. Let’s look at how Zabbix fits right into such a dynamic and ever-changing environment.

The full recording of the speech is available on the official Zabbix Youtube channel.

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Defining flexible problem thresholds with the new trigger syntax by Sergey Simonenko / Zabbix Summit Online 2021

Introduced in Zabbix 5.4, the new trigger expression syntax enables a problem detection logic that is more sophisticated and flexible than ever before. In addition to changing the syntax, the existing trigger functions have also been reworked. Many new functions have been added, redundant functions have been removed while existing functions have been improved to support many new use cases. In this blog post, we will take a look at the new trigger syntax and functions, as well as further trigger function improvements that will be added in Zabbix 6.0 LTS.

The full recording of the speech is available on the official Zabbix Youtube channel.

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Securing Zabbix 6.0 LTS by Kārlis Saliņš / Zabbix Summit Online 2021

Security is an essential dimension of any tool in your IT infrastructure, and Zabbix is no exception. With Zabbix 6.0 LTS, our users will be able to secure their Zabbix instance on multiple layers – from encrypting your network communication to flexible user access control,  API token provisioning, and custom user password policies. Let’s take a look at the full set of security features that Zabbix 6.0 LTS provides to its users.

The full recording of the speech is available on the official Zabbix Youtube channel.

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