Overrides is an often overlooked feature of Low-level discovery that makes the discovery of different entities in your environment so much more flexible. In this blog post, we will take a look at how overrides work and how we can use them to extend our Low-level discovery rules with additional logic.
Zabbix 5.4 has introduced a new unified syntax for trigger expressions and calculated items (including aggregate calculations). Discover what…
There are many monitoring solutions and monitoring tools that you can use for different monitoring tasks. But in this post and video, we will focus only on Zabbix and the top five features making Zabbix the best choice to monitor your home office as well as enterprise instances or projects.
Zabbix value maps have become more powerful with the support of ranges and regex. Learn new tricks to display…
When you have devices spread across different locations and monitor these with a single Zabbix instance, you’ll encounter a challenge managing the various latencies to each location, especially when these locations span the world. Ping times can vary wildly from 10ms to 500ms and more depending on the internet connections.
In this post and the video, we will discuss deploying and configuring Zabbix 5.4 in a multi-tenant environment and how Zabbix is finally ready for real multi-tenant use cases thanks to multiple features.
The release of version 5.4 grants Zabbix users the ability to receive scheduled PDF reports in their mailbox, which is a very sought-after feature. This post and the video will cover all-new report-related configuration parameters and walk you through setting up scheduled report generation.
Learn about best practices to secure your Zabbix API using token-based authentication and create seamless and protected integrations with…
New improvements might be unnoticed by many Zabbix users since they come to scalability, rather than to new features or some aspects of the user interface experience. However, these improvements might be beneficial for those Zabbix users who run really large instances.
In earlier Zabbix versions, we had three categories of things we could manage inside the instance — triggers, calculated items, and aggregated items. Each of them had its own syntax, so we could not be sure what syntax to use in a certain case. That’s why we introduced the unified syntax for every category inside the monitoring tool that will ease up the documentation task and the configuration process. To appreciate the innovation, we need to recap these three categories in Zabbix.
In this post, we will talk about the low-level discovery of Kafka connectors and tasks. When a Kafka task fails, a trigger is fired, which starts a remote command to restart the failed Kafka task. Of course, with the necessary logging around it.
Zabbix 5.4.0 released on May 17, 2021 — a non-LTS release that will be supported only for 7-8 months, has already received a lot of attention from our users, our community, and our customers due to a number of very significant and long-anticipated improvements. Zabbix 5.4.0 release comes with scheduled PDF report generation, robust problem detection, advanced data aggregation, and other significant improvements.
