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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Exploring AI Integration in Zabbix with Gemini and WebMCP
June 9, 2026
Integrations
When I first started working with Zabbix in banking and telecommunications over a decade ago, the workflow was always the same: something breaks, an alert fires, you open the dashboard, you diagnose, you fix. Every step required a human sitting in front of a screen reading charts and making decisions.
Cesar Caceres
With a strong track record in monitoring and optimization systems, I currently serve as a Senior Monitoring Specialist at Banco Nacional de Crédito (Venezuela), focusing on the implementation and improvement of Zabbix solutions. My experience spans from technical administration to strategic consulting, providing not only technical support but also proactive guidance for the security and efficiency of IT infrastructures.
Upgrading Fedora with Zabbix and Ansible
May 20, 2026
Case Study
Fedora is a global open source project and Linux distribution that provides a platform for innovation and collaboration. Its infrastructure is managed by a dedicated team of professionals and volunteers who maintain a wide array of services, from build systems to collaboration platforms. The challenge For many years, Fedora relied on Nagios for its primary […]
Michael Kammer
Monitoring MariaDB Clusters and MaxScale with Anders Karlsson
September 5, 2024
Community
The heart and soul of a Zabbix Summit is the wide range of expert speakers who show up each year to share their experience, knowledge, and discoveries. Accordingly, we’re continuing our series of interviews with Summit 2024 speakers by having a chat with MariaDB Sales Engineer Anders Karlsson. He’ll grace our stage at Summit 2024 […]
Michael Kammer
Providing Best-in-Class Security with Heather Diaz of fTLD Registry
September 3, 2024
Community
As the Vice President of Compliance and Policy at fTLD Registry Services, Heather Diaz is a security expert with over a decade of experience in ensuring the legal, compliance, and strategic alignment of the top-level domains .Bank and .Insurance. She is a compliance and ethics professional and leads the policy and security compliance functions at […]
Michael Kammer
Reducing Alert Noise with Birol Yildiz
August 29, 2024
Community
Zabbix Summit 2024 is almost here, and we’re giving you a sneak peek into what you can expect to see on our main stage this year via a series of short interviews with a few of the eminent speakers who will grace us with their presence. First up is Birol Yildiz, the CEO and Co-founder […]
Michael Kammer
What’s in Store at Summit ‘24?
August 27, 2024
Community
October means different things to different people – it’s springtime in the Southern Hemisphere, autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and Summit time if you’re a member of the Zabbix community! Summit time, of course, means the biggest of all Zabbix events, gathering the global Zabbix community in one place to have fun together and learn […]
Michael Kammer
Migrating from Datadog to Zabbix with Custom Metric Submission
August 22, 2024
Handy Tips
For a few years, I’ve been monitoring 3 Digital Ocean servers with Datadog and using Datadog DogStatsD to submit custom metrics to Datadog. I am a big fan of Datadog and will continue recommending them. However, it became a bit too expensive for my needs, so I started looking for alternative options.
Chris Board
Open-Source Security: The Zabbix Advantage
August 8, 2024
Community
At Zabbix, we’ve championed the open-source movement, with its emphasis on openness, transparency, and cooperation, from day one. Because of this, prospective customers and partners often have questions about the security of our product – the fear being that open-source software is somehow less secure than proprietary software.
Michael Kammer