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 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 […]
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Optimized Monitoring for Hybrid Environments with ICT Solutions
April 15, 2026
Case Study
ICT Solutions is a managed service provider (MSP) specializing in fully managed IT Support, cloud, cybersecurity and more. Based in Liverpool, they offer IT support across the UK.
Michael Kammer
What’s Up, Home? – Monitor your new Selenium
July 5, 2024
Community
As Zabbix got the new fantastic Selenium-based synthetic web tests, you will now have a new component to monitor. How do you monitor Selenium? With Zabbix, of course! If you are impatient, feel free to download my very bare-bones example template.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
Zabbix Audit Log: Underlying Design and Considerations
July 4, 2024
Community
An audit improves the security of a product, specifically the “non-repudiation” aspect in threat-models (risks are reduced when threat-agents cannot deny they did malicious activity). Zabbix 5.0 already had audit functionality, which received a major rewrite in 6.0 and several updates since then. In this blog post, we will go through them and get an […]
Artjoms Rimdjonoks
C developer at Zabbix
Monitoring Configuration Backups with Zabbix and Oxidized
June 25, 2024
How To
As a Zabbix partner, we help customers worldwide with all their Zabbix needs, ranging from building a simple template all the way to (massive) turn-key implementations, trainings, and support contracts. Quite often during projects, we get the question, “How about making configuration backups of our network equipment? We need this, as another tool was also […]
Brian van Baekel
Consultant, Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions B.V.
Enhancing Network Synergy: rConfig’s Native Integration with Zabbix
June 18, 2024
How To
Native integration between two leading open-source tools – Zabbix for network monitoring and rConfig for configuration management, delivers substantial benefits to organizations. On one side, Zabbix offers a platform that maintains a Single Source of Truth for network device inventories. It provides real-time monitoring, problem detection, alerting, and other critical features that are essential for […]
Stephen Stack
Founder & CTO at rConfig
Zabbix 7.0 Proxy Load Balancing
June 13, 2024
How To
One of the new features in Zabbix 7.0 LTS is proxy load balancing. As the documentation says: Proxy load balancing allows monitoring hosts by a proxy group with automated distribution of hosts between proxies and high proxy availability. If one proxy from the proxy group goes offline, its hosts will be immediately distributed among other […]
Markku Leiniö
Senior Network Architect at Mintly Oy
Zabbix 7.0 Certified Expert
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Zabbix 7.0 – Everything You Need to Know
June 6, 2024
Community
After plenty of breathless anticipation, we’re proud to announce the release of the latest major Zabbix version – the new and improved Zabbix 7.0 LTS. This release is the direct result of user feedback and delivers a variety of improvements, including cloud-native Zabbix proxy scalability, website transaction monitoring, improved data collection speed and scalability, new […]
Michael Kammer