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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.
Put Zabbix at your Fingertips with the IntelliTrend Mobile App
December 16, 2025
Integrations
The official Zabbix frontend works great on desktop, but it isn’t built for mobile. Monitoring doesn’t end when you step away from your workstation, and a reliable Zabbix mobile app keeps you connected to your Zabbix environment, gives you instant notifications, and allows you to react to problems or just check your host configuration at […]
What’s Up, Home? – Syslog, Hold the Line
September 2, 2022
Community
Can you find out what your laptop is doing during its boot with Zabbix? Of course, you can!
What’s Up, Home? – Record Your Roomba Dance
August 26, 2022
Community
Can you monitor your several-year-old dumb Roomba iRobot vacuum cleaner with Zabbix? Of course, you can!
Handy Tips #36: Collecting custom metrics with Zabbix agent user parameters
August 25, 2022
Handy Tips
Define custom agent keys to collect custom metrics by executing scripts or commands with Zabbix user parameters. Having a simple way to extend the metric collection functionality of a monitoring tool can be vital if we wish to monitor custom in-house software or simply collect metrics not available out of the box. Collect custom metrics […]
What’s Up, Home? – A Pawesome Bedtime Story
August 19, 2022
Community
Can you monitor your dogs’ sleeping habits 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 weekly blog about this project.
What’s Up, Home? – Did You Really Turn Off Your Camera?
August 12, 2022
Community
Can you monitor your webcam activity with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I work as 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 weekly blog about this project. In a world […]
Handy Tips #35: Monitoring log file entries with Zabbix agent
August 11, 2022
Handy Tips
Collect and react on entries in your Windows or Linux logs with Zabbix log monitoring. Log file entries can contain OS or application-level information that can help you react proactively to potential issues or track the root cause of a problem after it has occurred. For this reason, keeping a constant lookout for issues in […]
