Monitoring a Starlink Dish with Zabbix
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Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 2: Adapt
April 29, 2026
Handy Tips
In this blog post, I will show you how to create a template for monitoring your Docker server with only API calls (without the Zabbix agent 2). Instead of creating a template, templated items, LLD rules, and trigger prototypes from scratch, we will adapt them from the existing template “Docker by Zabbix agent 2.” How […]
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 […]
What’s Up, Home? – Let’s hit the road!
April 14, 2023
Community
Can you monitor how much you drive your car, even if your car wouldn’t have any way to report back to Zabbix? Of course, you can! By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird […]
What’s Up, Home? – Monitor your website visitor rate
March 24, 2023
Community
Can you monitor your website visitor rate with Zabbix? Of course, you can! By day, I am a lead site reliability engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.
Kubernetes monitoring with Zabbix – Part 3: Extracting Prometheus metrics with Zabbix preprocessing
March 23, 2023
How To
In the previous Kubernetes monitoring blog post, we explored the functionality provided by the Kubernetes integration in Zabbix and discussed use cases for monitoring and alerting to events in a cluster, such as changes in replicas or CPU pressure.
Just-in-Time user provisioning explained
March 15, 2023
How To
Zabbix 6.4 finally brings a very much waited feature called “Just-In-Time user provisioning”. Zabbix “What’s new in 6.4” LDAP/SAML user provisioning paragraph is very brief and can not (not that I am saying it should) deliver any excitement about this new really game changing feature. This blog post was born to address two points: explain in […]
What’s Up, Home? – Raspberry Pi 4: goodbye or good buy for running Zabbix?
March 13, 2023
Community
Is Raspberry Pi 4 a goodbye or a good buy for running Zabbix? How is it performance-wise? Is it reliable? Here’s my nine-month review of it, with a splash of appliance/application performance monitoring.
Kubernetes monitoring with Zabbix – Part 2: Understanding the discovered resources
March 8, 2023
How To
In the previous blog post, we installed the Zabbix Agent Helm Chart and set up official Kubernetes templates to monitor a cluster in Zabbix. In this edition, part 2, we will explore the functionality provided by the Kubernetes integration in Zabbix and discuss use cases for monitoring and alerting on events in a cluster. (This […]
