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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 […]
Saving Time with a Custom Zabbix Agent Installer
December 4, 2025
Handy Tips
When managing large-scale infrastructure, the process of installing monitoring agents is often repetitive and time-consuming. Administrators must log into each server, manually run installation commands, and configure the agent to connect to the Zabbix server. To address this issue, the Zabbix Agent Deployer custom module was created. This module enables the direct installation of Zabbix […]
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 […]
Reducing Alert Fatigue with Zabbix and China Pacific Insurance
July 31, 2025
Case Study
Headquartered in Shanghai, the China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co., Ltd. (CPI) is a Chinese insurance company that was established on the basis of the former China Pacific Insurance Corporation. CPI Group is the second largest property insurance company and the third largest life insurance company in Mainland China. It provides integrated insurance services (including life […]
Understanding HTTP Template Authorization in AWS
July 29, 2025
How To
Authorization in Amazon Web Services (AWS) determines what actions a user, service, or system can perform on resources. It answers the question: “Does this identity have permission to do this action on that resource?”
Keeping Latvia Connected with Zabbix and LMT
July 22, 2025
Case Study
LMT is a mobile GSM/UMTS/LTE operator in Latvia. Founded on January 2, 1992, it was the first mobile network operator in the country. In addition to providing mobile network and ISP services, LMT uses innovative technologies and solutions to develop and maintain a variety of IT solutions for public and private organizations. Currently, LMT is […]
