Monitoring a Starlink Dish with Zabbix
Curious about keeping tabs on your Starlink internet performance? Whether you're off-grid or just love tracking your network performance, this post has you covered!
Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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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 […]
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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 […]
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
What’s Up, Home? – Time to Get Sirious
July 29, 2022
Community
Can you integrate Zabbix with Siri? 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 weekly blog about the home project.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
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 […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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 […]
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
Zabbix Summit: A celebration of all things monitoring and open-source
July 21, 2022
Community
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 […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
What’s Up, Home? – The Relaxing Breeze
July 15, 2022
Community
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.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
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 […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer