This week, I advanced my project on multiple fronts, so welcome to this little smorgasbord of different topics. In my future posts, I will go deeper into each topic as my project goes forward.
Analyze your incoming metrics and look for interruptions in continuously increasing or decreasing metrics with the monoinc and monodec…
In my previous blog post, I wrote about how I monitor my home with Zabbix. This week, I am showing how I utilize Grafana to visualize the data collected by Zabbix and what are my plans to further improve all this.
Automate host creation and monitoring with Zabbix network discovery. Creating hosts for a large number of monitoring endpoints can…
For those of you who know me, this should not come as a surprise: I absolutely love Zabbix. It gives me the ultimate freedom to monitor whatever I need to monitor and is flexible enough to be able to monitor absolutely everything you can imagine. It’s free, it’s open-source, and scales to whatever needs you might have.
Configure and deploy flexible business services and monitor the availability of your business and its individual components. The availability…
In this blog post, I will cover Docker container monitoring with Zabbix. We will use the official Docker by Zabbix agent 2 template to make things as simple as possible. The template download link and configuration steps can be found on the Zabbix Integrations page. If you require a visual guide, I invite you to check out my video covering this topic.
Track the creation of new entities, updates to the existing configuration, and potential intrusion attempts with Zabbix audit log.…
We say Zabbix is a universal monitoring system, which is true. In many cases, the Zabbix potential is limited only by knowledge and the ability to use all the functions properly. That is why various training materials, including books, are so important. Nathan Liefting and Brian van Baekel recently presented their new Monitoring Cookbook on Zabbix 6.0 features and made a huge contribution to the existing knowledge pool. One of the book’s authors kindly agreed to tell us more about the issue.
Display and track the status of your infrastructure on your dashboards by using the Zabbix Geomap widget. As your…
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.
Secure your Zabbix logins from brute-force and dictionary attacks by defining password complexity requirements. Enforcing an organization-wide password policy…