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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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 […]
Michael Kammer
Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 3: Control
May 6, 2026
Handy Tips
In this blog post, you will learn how to add a simple container remote control capability to Zabbix in order to start, stop, or restart containers from within the discovered host.
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #25: Securing Zabbix logins with password complexity settings
March 17, 2022
Handy Tips
Secure your Zabbix logins from brute-force and dictionary attacks by defining password complexity requirements. Enforcing an organization-wide password policy can be extremely unreliable if we don’t have a toolset to enforce these policies. By using native password complexity settings, we can provide an additional layer of security and ensure that our users follow our organization’s […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Zabbix security advisories regarding CVE-2022-23131 and CVE-2022-23134
February 25, 2022
News
Here at Zabbix, the security of our product is our top priority. It has come to our attention that two potential CVE issues have been highlighted in tech media outlets – CVE-2022-23131 and CVE-2022-23134. The most critical issue – CVE-2022-23131, affects only Zabbix instances where SAML SSO authentication is in use. While CVE-2022-23134 Affects Zabbix […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #24: Preventing downtimes with The Zabbix HA cluster
February 24, 2022
Handy Tips
Configure automated failover between Zabbix server nodes with the native Zabbix server HA cluster. Preventing downtimes is as vital for a monitoring solution as it is for any other component of an organization’s IT infrastructure. High availability and automated failover can help you prevent unwanted downtimes by supporting multiple application nodes and failing over between […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Tags in Zabbix 6.0 LTS – Usage, subfilters and guidelines
February 18, 2022
How To
Starting from Zabbix 5.4, item tags have completely replaced applications. This design decision has allowed us to implement many new usability improvements – from providing additional information and classification to the tagged entities, to defining action conditions and security permissions by referencing specific tags and their values. Let’s take a look at how tags are […]
Andrey Biba
Integration Engineer at Zabbix
Zabbix 6.0 LTS is out now!
February 15, 2022
News
The Zabbix team is proud to announce the release of Zabbix 6.0 LTS. The latest version comes packed with many new features, improvements, new templates and integrations.
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Handy Tips #23: Suppressing problems with Zabbix maintenance periods
February 10, 2022
Handy Tips
Suppress unwanted problems during planned maintenance by defining Zabbix maintenance periods. Planned downtimes due to maintenance are a part of every administrator’s life. Be it updating your software or upgrading the underlying hardware – sooner or later we will need to schedule a planned downtime. We also need to find a way to suppress the […]
Arturs Lontons
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer