For companies looking to migrate from PRTG Network Monitor to Zabbix, one of the most critical aspects is making sure a smooth migration of monitored devices and configurations. While there is no official tool to directly migrate between the two platforms, creating a bridge using custom export/import scripts allows for an effective and large migation. This blog post outlines a practical approach to achieving that migration based on the export/import methodology we at Opensource ICT Solutions previously implemented for one of our clients.
October is just around the corner, and that annual shift into Q4 can mean only one thing – it’s almost Summit time! Zabbix Summit 2025 will take place on October 8-10 in Riga, Latvia at the Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija, and it’s shaping up to be the perfect blend of established traditions and fresh approaches – we’ve been at this for a (very lucky) 13 years now, and we’d like to think we’ve kept the aspects of the Summit experience that everyone knows and loves while adding a few twists! Here’s what you can expect for the price of admission:
The new Zabbix proxy groups provide us with a method to provide both redundancy and load balancing in our Zabbix proxy setups. However, one major limitation arises when we want to use SNMP traps with these new proxy groups – it isn’t natively supported at the moment. One of our customers asked me to find a solution to that problem, so here’s how I went about it.
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL), located in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, is a key university with two campuses – Nanhu and Shouyi. The school boasts over 20,000 full-time undergraduate students, more than 8,800 graduate students, and over 2,500 faculty and staff members. ZUEL enjoys an outstanding reputation in the fields of law and economics, with four national key disciplines. Its law discipline, meanwhile, has been included in the list of national “Double First-Class” disciplines.
Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment requires bulletproof availability at the database layer. Any downtime in PostgreSQL, even for seconds, can disrupt monitoring visibility, triggering blind spots in alerts and data collection.
Zabbix has been the backbone of my infrastructure for over ten years, a journey I’ve been on from version 3.2 to 7.4. It’s a robust and reliable tool. However, in the age of intelligent assistants, I posed a question to myself: Why can’t I interact with my monitoring system as naturally as I talk with Maria, my generative AI assistant?
Recently, a new customer of ours at Opensource ICT Solutions asked whether we could migrate their Nagios instance to Zabbix. Because Nagios and Zabbix are very different in their storage methods, we told them that we would have to investigate and see if we could come up with a viable solution. It wasn’t long until we found a way to do it and started building some script to get it done.
Headquartered in Shanghai, the China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co., Ltd. (CPI) is a Chinese insurance company that was established on the basis of the former China Pacific Insurance Corporation. CPI Group is the second largest property insurance company and the third largest life insurance company in Mainland China. It provides integrated insurance services (including life insurance, property insurance, and reinsurance) through its subsidiaries.
Authorization in Amazon Web Services (AWS) determines what actions a user, service, or system can perform on resources. It answers the question: “Does this identity have permission to do this action on that resource?”
LMT is a mobile GSM/UMTS/LTE operator in Latvia. Founded on January 2, 1992, it was the first mobile network operator in the country. In addition to providing mobile network and ISP services, LMT uses innovative technologies and solutions to develop and maintain a variety of IT solutions for public and private organizations. Currently, LMT is the largest telecommunications service provider in the country, with over 1,660 base stations and over 1.5 million users as of 2024.
Established in 2020 to consolidate Doğan Group’s automotive and mobility companies and brands under a single entity, Doğan Trend Automotive is a prominent player in their industry. Representing a diverse portfolio ranging from automobiles, motorcycles, and marine engines to electric commercial vehicles, Doğan Trend also delivers innovative solutions to customers through its e-commerce platforms, such as suvmarket.com and vespastoreturkey.com.
It’s a very well known fact that Zabbix can only be installed on Linux. But what if you are in a Windows environment and getting a Linux machine is not so simple or even possible? This can obstruct the implementation of Zabbix, or at least significantly delay it. Not only that, building a POC outside of the future environment makes data procurement a lot more complicated. Is there a way to work around this and get Zabbix as close to Windows as we possibly can?