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
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Improving Efficiency with a Zabbix Technical Subscription
March 4, 2026
Case Study
Affidea, a pan-European provider of diagnostic imaging, community-based polyclinic, and specialist healthcare services, operates in 391 centers across 15 countries. Within its growing network, the company ensures that patients receive appropriate and personalized care from leading medical experts.
Michael Kammer
Modernizing Public Service Monitoring with Zabbix and Prodemge
February 25, 2026
Case Study
Prodemge is the public IT company responsible for supporting the digital systems and services that drive the Government of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Its operations cover essential areas such as healthcare, education, public safety, finance, and infrastructure, ensuring that public policies reach citizens quickly, securely, and efficiently.
Michael Kammer
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 […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
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.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
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.
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
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.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
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 […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer