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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.
What’s Up, Home? – Use the Zabbix, Luke
June 3, 2022
Community
Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix. Like Batman, I have a casual day job as a monitoring tech lead, and by night I tinker around with my home Zabbix. (Except that Batman does not do monitoring, or who knows.)
What’s Up, Home? – Zabbix the Weatherman
May 27, 2022
Community
This week, I advanced my project on multiple fronts, so welcome to this little smorgasbord of different topics. In my future posts, I will go deeper into each topic as my project goes forward.
Handy Tips #30: Detect continuous increase or decrease of values with monotonic history functions
May 26, 2022
Handy Tips
Analyze your incoming metrics and look for interruptions in continuously increasing or decreasing metrics with the monoinc and monodec history functions. A continuous increase or decrease is the norm for metrics such as server uptime, time remaining until a task is executed, number of daily transactions, and many other such use cases. A software or […]
What’s Up, Home? – Thumbs up!
May 20, 2022
Community
In my previous blog post, I wrote about how I monitor my home with Zabbix. This week, I am showing how I utilize Grafana to visualize the data collected by Zabbix and what are my plans to further improve all this.
Handy Tips #29: Discovering hosts and services with network discovery
May 12, 2022
Handy Tips
Automate host creation and monitoring with Zabbix network discovery. Creating hosts for a large number of monitoring endpoints can become a menial and time-consuming task. It is important to provide the end-users with the tools to automate such tasks to create and start monitoring hosts based on a user-defined set of rules and conditions. Automate […]
What’s Up, Home? – Marrying Zabbix and Cozify IoT hub
May 6, 2022
Community
For those of you who know me, this should not come as a surprise: I absolutely love Zabbix. It gives me the ultimate freedom to monitor whatever I need to monitor and is flexible enough to be able to monitor absolutely everything you can imagine. It’s free, it’s open-source, and scales to whatever needs you […]
