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24/7 Alerting and Two-Way Integration with Zabbix and SIGNL4
December 9, 2025
Handy Tips
It’s a familiar story for many IT operations teams: a critical server went down overnight, but the alert was buried in someone’s inbox. By the time anyone noticed, valuable time was lost, SLAs were breached, and the team spent the next morning explaining why an email hadn’t been seen. Email (or even SMS text) alone […]
Saving Time with a Custom Zabbix Agent Installer
December 4, 2025
Handy Tips
When managing large-scale infrastructure, the process of installing monitoring agents is often repetitive and time-consuming. Administrators must log into each server, manually run installation commands, and configure the agent to connect to the Zabbix server. To address this issue, the Zabbix Agent Deployer custom module was created. This module enables the direct installation of Zabbix […]
Handy Tips #34: Creating context-sensitive problem thresholds with Zabbix user macros
July 28, 2022
Handy Tips
Provide context and define custom problem thresholds by using Zabbix user macros. Problem thresholds can vary for the same metric on different monitoring endpoints. We can have a server where having 10% of free space is perfectly fine, and a server where anything below 20% is a cause for concern. Define Zabbix user macros with […]
What’s Up, Home? – Say Cheese!
July 22, 2022
Community
Can you take screenshots of the websites you monitor with Zabbix? Of course, you can! By day, I earn my living by being a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and […]
Zabbix Summit: A celebration of all things monitoring and open-source
July 21, 2022
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Many of us have visited a number of different conferences over the years. The setting and the goal of the conferences can vary by a large degree – from product presentations to technology stack overviews and community get-togethers. Zabbix Summit is somewhat special in that, as it aims to combine all of the aforementioned goals […]
What’s Up, Home? – The Relaxing Breeze
July 15, 2022
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Can you monitor a home air conditioner 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. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments.
Handy Tips #33: Pause unwanted alarms by suppressing your problems
July 14, 2022
Handy Tips
Suppress problems indefinitely or until a specific point in time with the problem suppression feature. There are plenty of use cases when detected infrastructure or business problems need to be temporarily suppressed, and the alerting workflows have to be paused. This applies to scenarios such as emergency maintenance, unexpected load on your systems, migrations to […]
Keep Things Cool with Zabbix
July 12, 2022
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Do your friends, colleagues or maybe even your significant other have a nasty habit of leaving the fridge half-open causing you a frustrating evening and potentially even ruining your cherished batch of pistachio-flavored ice cream? With the right thermometer and a little Zabbix knowledge, you can configure Zabbix to keep a watchful eye on the […]
