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
Latest articles
Building an “Academy of Uptime” with Kristine Lamberte
January 6, 2026
Community
If you’ve been working with Zabbix (or are planning to), you’re in luck – we’ve recently launched Zabbix Academy, a new learning platform designed to empower IT professionals and monitoring enthusiasts with self-paced, expert-led training. Zabbix Academy is the brainchild of Kristine Lamberte, Head of Training at Zabbix. Kristine was gracious enough to participate in […]
Michael Kammer
Keep Your Printers Happy with Zabbix and PaperCut NG
December 23, 2025
Integrations
We all know the panic when the print system goes down. As I’ve written about before, PaperCut NG is a fantastic tool for managing printing, but even the best software needs a watchful eye to prevent unexpected downtime.
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Running Zabbix with MariaDB and Galera Active/Active Clustering
September 30, 2025
Community
High availability on a platform like Zabbix is a hard requirement for many users. With native high availability on the Zabbix servers, proxies, and at the frontend through various solutions for web servers, all that’s left is at the database layer. Any downtime in your MariaDB database would disrupt your monitoring availability, at the least […]
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Optimizing Financial Routines and Infrastructure with Banpará
September 23, 2025
Case Study
Banco do Estado do Pará (Banpará) is the main public financial institution in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is a mixed-capital company, organized as a multiple bank with the mission of generating value for the state of Pará. It currently has approximately 198 physical customer service units and is present in all 144 municipalities […]
Michael Kammer
Building HA Zabbix with PostgreSQL and Patroni
September 16, 2025
Community
Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment demands reliability and resilience. When your monitoring solution is down, you’re flying blind – and for many organizations, that simply isn’t acceptable. This post introduces a robust high-availability (HA) architecture for Zabbix, using PostgreSQL, Patroni, etcd, HAProxy, keepalived and PgBackRest. Built on RHEL 9 or […]
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Revolutionizing Zabbix Maintenance with Artificial Intelligence
September 11, 2025
Handy Tips
Can you imagine being able to schedule maintenance in Zabbix by simply telling a program: “I need to put the web server in maintenance tomorrow from 8 to 10 with ticket 100-178306”? That’s exactly what the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scheduler Zabbix project I’ve developed does!
Grover Taipe
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Exploring the Human Side of Software with Dylan Beattie
September 9, 2025
Community
There are plenty of good reasons to attend Zabbix Summit 2025, but one of the most important is the fact that this year’s Summit will feature Dylan Beattie as a special guest speaker. A Software Development Consultant and Founder of Ursatile, Dylan is an international keynote speaker, and a long-time contributor to the open-source community. […]
Michael Kammer
Migrating from PRTG to Zabbix: A High-Level Guide
September 2, 2025
Community
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. […]
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS