“Why on earth was I not notified?!”

January 16, 2013 18Comments 753Views By

“Why on earth was I not notified?!” — ever heard that question from a fellow worker? Setting up notifications can be a challenge — and not only for beginners. Normally, debugging such cases is cumbersome, complex and requires a good understanding of how Zabbix works. Were you ever asked for a list of people who would be notified on some event? It’s hard to tell, until the event actually happens. Or at least it used to:

The Action Simulator tries to relieve you from these problems and make you and your co-workers happy again.

Update: Presenting the Action simulator at the Zabbix Conference 2013

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 2 – Templated web monitoring

January 7, 2013 0Comments 2143Views By

Continuing with the series on upcoming Zabbix 2.2, the second feature we will look at will be related to the built-in web monitoring that has been available in Zabbix for quite some time already. One problem some users faced – there was no way to use the extensive Zabbix templating system for web monitoring. This was not an issue if all we wanted to monitor were standard websites, but as soon as there would be a large amount of identical webservers, one would have to either do a lot of manual configuration or some scripting via the Zabbix API. Zabbix 2.2 will greatly simplify this by providing templatable web monitoring.

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 1 – Automatic database upgrading

January 3, 2013 5Comments 1667Views By

Zabbix currently is at version 2.0, and this version took quite a long time to get out – almost 2 and a half years. Of course, all that wait was not in vain – Zabbix 2.0 provided a huge amount of new features. It did mean that you and me had to wait for quite some time before benefiting from those features, though, so there will be an effort to make Zabbix 2.2 happen sooner. Let’s start to look at the improvements Zabbix 2.2 will provide – and let’s start with the one that everybody upgrading will notice – automated database schema upgrades.

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Zabbix SIA – Best Exporter in small partnership group 2012!

December 20, 2012 1Comment 441Views By

To be known, accepted and demanded in the different corners of the world is of course a big honor and the pride of every developing and dynamic company. However, to become recognized by the company’s home country and to be named “the best”, that’s what makes you really proud of who you are and what you are doing, as we all know – the most honest critique and valuation of the things you do comes from the closest people. 🙂

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API versioning

November 6, 2012 1Comment 392Views By

The 2.0.4 release contains a lot of improvements so one tiny change may have passed unnoticed: the version of the API has been bumped to 2.0.4 as well. Indeed, that’s one small change in the code, but a huge decision for the Zabbix developers team. The API version has remained on 1.4 since the release of 2.0, but finally we’ve developed a versioning that will suite our needs.

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