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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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 […]
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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 […]
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
What’s Up, Home? – Have a Nice Flight!
December 9, 2022
Community
Can you monitor the FlightGear flight simulator 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? – No More Blackouts with Zabbix HA Cluster
December 2, 2022
Community
Can you have a Zabbix HA cluster at home? 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
Fast Way to Upgrade Your Zabbix Knowledge
November 29, 2022
Community
Since Zabbix 6.0 LTS has been released with a lot of new features and improvements, it might be tricky for one to figure out how to use these features on their own. Here, Zabbix comes to the rescue with Upgrade Training Courses to boost your knowledge in just one day.
Nicole Makarova
Content Writer at Zabbix
What’s Up, Home? – Zabbix the Storyteller
November 25, 2022
Community
Can you create fairy tales 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 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? – Backups Matter!
November 21, 2022
Community
Can you monitor your backups with Zabbix? Of course, you can — and you should! 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? – Measure Real-Time Power Consumption
November 11, 2022
Community
Can you monitor Finland’s total real-time power consumption 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