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 […]

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 […]

In this blog post, I will cover Docker container monitoring with Zabbix. We will use the official Docker by Zabbix agent 2 template to make things as simple as possible. The template download link and configuration steps can be found on the Zabbix Integrations page. If you require a visual guide, I invite you to […]

Track the creation of new entities, updates to the existing configuration, and potential intrusion attempts with Zabbix audit log. If your monitoring environment is managed by more than a single administrator, it can become hard to track the implemented changes and additions. Having a detailed audit log can help you analyze any potentially unwanted changes […]

We say Zabbix is a universal monitoring system, which is true. In many cases, the Zabbix potential is limited only by knowledge and the ability to use all the functions properly. That is why various training materials, including books, are so important. Nathan Liefting and Brian van Baekel recently presented their new Monitoring Cookbook on […]

Display and track the status of your infrastructure on your dashboards by using the Zabbix Geomap widget. As your IT infrastructure grows and branches out, it can become more and more complicated to track the status of each and every infrastructure component. IT infrastructure administrators need to find a way to present the state of […]