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Exploring AI Integration in Zabbix with Gemini and WebMCP
June 9, 2026
Integrations
When I first started working with Zabbix in banking and telecommunications over a decade ago, the workflow was always the same: something breaks, an alert fires, you open the dashboard, you diagnose, you fix. Every step required a human sitting in front of a screen reading charts and making decisions.
Upgrading Fedora with Zabbix and Ansible
May 20, 2026
Case Study
Fedora is a global open source project and Linux distribution that provides a platform for innovation and collaboration. Its infrastructure is managed by a dedicated team of professionals and volunteers who maintain a wide array of services, from build systems to collaboration platforms. The challenge For many years, Fedora relied on Nagios for its primary […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
