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Building an “Academy of Uptime” with Kristine Lamberte
January 6, 2026
Community
If you’ve been working with Zabbix (or are planning to), you’re in luck – we’ve recently launched Zabbix Academy, a new learning platform designed to empower IT professionals and monitoring enthusiasts with self-paced, expert-led training. Zabbix Academy is the brainchild of Kristine Lamberte, Head of Training at Zabbix. Kristine was gracious enough to participate in […]
Keep Your Printers Happy with Zabbix and PaperCut NG
December 23, 2025
Integrations
We all know the panic when the print system goes down. As I’ve written about before, PaperCut NG is a fantastic tool for managing printing, but even the best software needs a watchful eye to prevent unexpected downtime.
Expand your Knowledge at Zabbix Summit 2025
August 26, 2025
Community
October is just around the corner, and that annual shift into Q4 can mean only one thing – it’s almost Summit time! Zabbix Summit 2025 will take place on October 8-10 in Riga, Latvia at the Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija, and it’s shaping up to be the perfect blend of established traditions and fresh approaches […]
Proxy Group Load Balancing with SNMP Traps
August 19, 2025
Case Study
The new Zabbix proxy groups provide us with a method to provide both redundancy and load balancing in our Zabbix proxy setups. However, one major limitation arises when we want to use SNMP traps with these new proxy groups – it isn’t natively supported at the moment. One of our customers asked me to find […]
Zabbix at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
August 14, 2025
Case Study
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL), located in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, is a key university with two campuses – Nanhu and Shouyi. The school boasts over 20,000 full-time undergraduate students, more than 8,800 graduate students, and over 2,500 faculty and staff members. ZUEL enjoys an outstanding reputation in the fields of law […]
Running Zabbix with PostgreSQL and PG Auto Failover
August 12, 2025
Handy Tips
Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment requires bulletproof availability at the database layer. Any downtime in PostgreSQL, even for seconds, can disrupt monitoring visibility, triggering blind spots in alerts and data collection.
When Generative AI Meets Zabbix
August 7, 2025
How To
Zabbix has been the backbone of my infrastructure for over ten years, a journey I’ve been on from version 3.2 to 7.4. It’s a robust and reliable tool. However, in the age of intelligent assistants, I posed a question to myself: Why can’t I interact with my monitoring system as naturally as I talk with […]
Migrating Nagios to Zabbix: Lessons Learned
August 5, 2025
Community
Recently, a new customer of ours at Opensource ICT Solutions asked whether we could migrate their Nagios instance to Zabbix. Because Nagios and Zabbix are very different in their storage methods, we told them that we would have to investigate and see if we could come up with a viable solution. It wasn’t long until […]
