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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Put Zabbix at your Fingertips with the IntelliTrend Mobile App
December 16, 2025
Integrations
The official Zabbix frontend works great on desktop, but it isn’t built for mobile. Monitoring doesn’t end when you step away from your workstation, and a reliable Zabbix mobile app keeps you connected to your Zabbix environment, gives you instant notifications, and allows you to react to problems or just check your host configuration at […]
Wolfgang Alper
CEO, IntelliTrend IT-Services GmbH
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 […]
Ronald Czachara
Co-founder at Derdack GmbH / Exploration at SIGNL4
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 […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
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 […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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 […]
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
Handy Tips #28: Keeping track of your services with business service monitoring
April 28, 2022
Handy Tips
Configure and deploy flexible business services and monitor the availability of your business and its individual components. The availability of a business service tends to depend on the state of many interconnected components. Therefore, detecting the current state of a business service requires a sufficiently complex and flexible monitoring logic. Define flexible business service trees […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Docker Container Monitoring With Zabbix
April 19, 2022
Community
In this blog post, I will cover Docker container monitoring with Zabbix. We will use the official Docker by Zabbix agent 2 template to make things as simple as possible. The template download link and configuration steps can be found on the Zabbix Integrations page. If you require a visual guide, I invite you to […]
Dmitry Lambert