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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From Backup to Assurance: Monitoring Veeam with Zabbix
October 14, 2026
Integrations
Your data isn’t truly protected if you don’t know when that protection fails. Today’s organizations depend on backup infrastructure to safeguard critical workloads, yet a single backup failure, dwindling repository capacity, expired license, security incident, or infrastructure issue can quietly undermine that protection. The key isn’t just having backups – it’s knowing, as quickly and […]
Michael Kammer
You Asked, We Delivered: What’s New in Zabbix Cloud
September 9, 2026
Community
We’re always looking for ways to make Zabbix Cloud easier to use, and one of the best sources of inspiration is you – our users.
Michael Kammer
What’s Up, Home? – Don’t Forget the Facial Cream
June 10, 2022
Community
Can you monitor the regular use of facial cream with Zabbix? Of course, you can! Here’s how. This same method could be very useful for monitoring if the elderly remember to take their meds or so.
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
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 […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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.)
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC
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