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Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 2: Adapt
April 29, 2026
Handy Tips
In this blog post, I will show you how to create a template for monitoring your Docker server with only API calls (without the Zabbix agent 2). Instead of creating a template, templated items, LLD rules, and trigger prototypes from scratch, we will adapt them from the existing template “Docker by Zabbix agent 2.” How […]
Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 1: Inspect
April 22, 2026
Handy Tips
In this blog post, I will show you how to configure Zabbix to securely gather Docker API metrics using the Zabbix HTTP agent item with certificate authentication. This guide will cover configuring the Docker API and the Zabbix server side to gather data more securely. Getting the data to Zabbix from the Docker API By […]
What’s Up, Home? – How Zabbix Can Help You with Rising Electricity Bills
September 23, 2022
Community
Can you monitor your upcoming electricity bills 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 make some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my weekly blog about the project.
Handy Tips #38: Automating SNMP item creation with low-level discovery
September 22, 2022
Handy Tips
Let Zabbix automatically discover and start monitoring your SNMP data points. Creating items manually for each network interface, fan, temperature sensor, and other SNMP data points can be a very time-consuming task. To save time, Zabbix administrators need to automate item, trigger, and graph creation as much as possible. Automate item, trigger and graph creation […]
What’s Up, Home? – Automatic Temperature Control
September 16, 2022
Community
Can you automatically control the temperature of your home in a time- and room-based manner using Zabbix? Of course, you can!
What’s Up, Home? – Zabbix the Climate Remote
September 9, 2022
Community
Can you control your air conditioner using Zabbix? Of course, you can!
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!
