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Saving Time with a Custom Zabbix Agent Installer
December 4, 2025
Handy Tips
When managing large-scale infrastructure, the process of installing monitoring agents is often repetitive and time-consuming. Administrators must log into each server, manually run installation commands, and configure the agent to connect to the Zabbix server. To address this issue, the Zabbix Agent Deployer custom module was created. This module enables the direct installation of Zabbix […]
Aruba Central API Monitoring with Zabbix
November 25, 2025
Handy Tips
Aruba Central is a SaaS solution that allows you to manage your Enterprise Aruba network environment. Due to the increasing number of cloud migrations, we can expect that more and more Aruba customers will move their on-premise environment to it, which will also mean a change in their monitoring environment. In this article, I will […]
Handy Tips #39: Extracting metrics from structured data with Zabbix preprocessing
October 26, 2022
Handy Tips
Collect structured data in bulk and use Zabbix preprocessing to extract and transform the necessary metrics. Collecting data from custom monitoring endpoints such as web applications or custom in-house software can result in the collected data requiring further extraction or transformation to fit our requirements. Use Zabbix preprocessing to extract metrics from structured data: Extract […]
What’s Up, Home? – BA-NA-NA!
October 21, 2022
Community
Can you monitor a banana with Zabbix? Of course, you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my blog about this project.
What’s Up, Home? – Staring at the Video Stream
October 4, 2022
Community
Can you make sure your video streams are up with Zabbix? Of course, you can! By day, I am a monitoring technical lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana Labs and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my weekly blog about the project.
Backups to the rescue!
September 30, 2022
How To
In this blog post, you will learn how to set up backups for your Zabbix environment. There’s a wide variety of different options when it comes to taking backups of our Zabbix environment, for us, it will just be a matter of choosing the right fit.
What’s Up, Home? – How Zabbix Can Help You with Rising Electricity Bills
September 23, 2022
Community
Can you monitor your upcoming electricity bills with Zabbix? Of course, you can! By day, I am a monitoring technical lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana Labs and make some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my weekly blog about the project.
Handy Tips #38: Automating SNMP item creation with low-level discovery
September 22, 2022
Handy Tips
Let Zabbix automatically discover and start monitoring your SNMP data points. Creating items manually for each network interface, fan, temperature sensor, and other SNMP data points can be a very time-consuming task. To save time, Zabbix administrators need to automate item, trigger, and graph creation as much as possible. Automate item, trigger and graph creation […]
