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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Port Monitoring with the Zabbix Widget Switch
March 18, 2026
Integrations
If you’ve ever monitored network switches in Zabbix, you know perfectly well that the data is there. Interfaces are polled via SNMP, triggers fire when a port goes down, and events are logged. Technically, everything works.
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Showcasing Our Potential at Europol Industry and Research Days
March 11, 2026
News
On February 24-26, Europol, the official law enforcement agency of the European Union. welcomed leading innovators, researchers, and law enforcement representatives to its headquarters in The Hague for the third edition of Europol Industry and Research Days.
Michael Kammer
Handy Tips #40: Simplify metric pattern matching by creating global regular expressions
November 10, 2022
Handy Tips
Streamline your data collection, problem detection and low-level discovery by defining global regular expressions.
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
What’s Up, Home? – The Clock Is Ticking
October 28, 2022
Community
Can you use Zabbix as a countdown timer? Of course, you can! By day, I am a technical monitoring 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
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