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
Keep Things Cool with Zabbix
July 12, 2022
Community
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 […]
Laura Schilder
What’s Up, Home? – Remotely Useful
July 8, 2022
Community
Can you integrate Zabbix with a remote control? Of course, you can! Does that make any sense? Maybe. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and how I do weird experiments with my setup.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
Zabbix 6.2 is out now!
July 5, 2022
News
The Zabbix team is pleased to announce the release of the latest Zabbix major version – Zabbix 6.2! The latest version delivers features aimed at improving configuration management and performance on large Zabbix instances as well as extending the flexibility of the existing Zabbix functionality. New features A brief overview of the major new features […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
What’s Up, Home? – Razor-sharp Thinking
July 1, 2022
Community
Can you monitor a Philips OneBlade shaver with Zabbix? Of course, you can! But why do that and how to monitor a dumb device with zero IoT capabilities?
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
What’s Up, Home? Welcome to my Zabbixverse
June 24, 2022
Community
By day, I am a monitoring technical lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix and Grafana in very creative ways. But what has Zabbix to do with Blender 3D software or virtual reality? Read on.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
Handy Tips #32: Deploying Zabbix in the Azure cloud platform
June 22, 2022
Handy Tips
Deploy your Zabbix servers and proxies in the Azure cloud. There are many use cases where deploying your Zabbix server or Zabbix proxies in the cloud can reduce costs, provide an additional layer of security and redundancy, and improve the available management toolset. Deploy your Zabbix instance in the Azure cloud with the official Zabbix […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer