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Building an “Academy of Uptime” with Kristine Lamberte
January 6, 2026
Community
If you’ve been working with Zabbix (or are planning to), you’re in luck – we’ve recently launched Zabbix Academy, a new learning platform designed to empower IT professionals and monitoring enthusiasts with self-paced, expert-led training. Zabbix Academy is the brainchild of Kristine Lamberte, Head of Training at Zabbix. Kristine was gracious enough to participate in […]
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.
Handy Tips #37: Collecting metrics from HTTP endpoints with HTTP agent items
September 8, 2022
Handy Tips
Collect metrics from HTTP endpoints such as web application APIs by defining HTTP agent items. Collecting metrics from web services and applications is a complex affair usually done by scripting around CLIs and APIs. Organizations require an efficient way to monitor such and endpoints and react to collected data. Collect and react to data from […]
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 […]
