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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Detect Issues in Your Zabbix Instance Before It’s Too Late
March 25, 2026
How To
In this blog post, I will show you how to detect performance issues in your Zabbix instance – in advance!
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Port Monitoring with the Zabbix Widget Switch
March 18, 2026
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If you’ve ever monitored network switches in Zabbix, you know perfectly well that the data is there. Interfaces are polled via SNMP, triggers fire when a port goes down, and events are logged. Technically, everything works.
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
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.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
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