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Exploring AI Integration in Zabbix with Gemini and WebMCP
June 9, 2026
Integrations
When I first started working with Zabbix in banking and telecommunications over a decade ago, the workflow was always the same: something breaks, an alert fires, you open the dashboard, you diagnose, you fix. Every step required a human sitting in front of a screen reading charts and making decisions.
Upgrading Fedora with Zabbix and Ansible
May 20, 2026
Case Study
Fedora is a global open source project and Linux distribution that provides a platform for innovation and collaboration. Its infrastructure is managed by a dedicated team of professionals and volunteers who maintain a wide array of services, from build systems to collaboration platforms. The challenge For many years, Fedora relied on Nagios for its primary […]
Handy Tips #31: Detecting invalid metrics with Zabbix validation preprocessing
June 9, 2022
Handy Tips
Monitor and react to unexpected or faulty outputs from your monitoring targets by using Zabbix validation preprocessing. In case of a failure, some monitoring endpoints like sensors or specific application or OS level counters can start outputting faulty metrics. Such behavior needs to be detected and reacted to as soon as possible. Use Zabbix preprocessing […]
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 […]
