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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.
Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 2: Adapt
April 29, 2026
Handy Tips
In this blog post, I will show you how to create a template for monitoring your Docker server with only API calls (without the Zabbix agent 2). Instead of creating a template, templated items, LLD rules, and trigger prototypes from scratch, we will adapt them from the existing template “Docker by Zabbix agent 2.” How […]
Handy Tips #22: Deploying Zabbix in the AWS cloud platform
January 31, 2022
Handy Tips
Deploy a production-ready Zabbix instance in the AWS cloud platform with just a few clicks. With a major paradigm shift to cloud IT infrastructures, many organizations opt-in to migrate their on-prem systems to the Cloud. Zabbix provides official cloud images for the most popular cloud vendors including the AWS cloud platform. Deploy the complete Zabbix […]
Zabbix meets television – Clever use of Zabbix features by Wolfgang Alper / Zabbix Summit Online 2021
January 28, 2022
Conferences
TV broadcasting infrastructures have seen many great paradigm shifts over the years. From TV to live streaming – the underlying architecture consists of many moving parts supplied by different vendors and solutions. Any potential problems can cause critical downtimes, which are simply not acceptable. Let’s look at how Zabbix fits right into such a dynamic […]
Defining flexible problem thresholds with the new trigger syntax by Sergey Simonenko / Zabbix Summit Online 2021
January 25, 2022
Conferences
Introduced in Zabbix 5.4, the new trigger expression syntax enables a problem detection logic that is more sophisticated and flexible than ever before. In addition to changing the syntax, the existing trigger functions have also been reworked. Many new functions have been added, redundant functions have been removed while existing functions have been improved to […]
Securing Zabbix 6.0 LTS by Kārlis Saliņš / Zabbix Summit Online 2021
January 21, 2022
Conferences
Security is an essential dimension of any tool in your IT infrastructure, and Zabbix is no exception. With Zabbix 6.0 LTS, our users will be able to secure their Zabbix instance on multiple layers – from encrypting your network communication to flexible user access control, API token provisioning, and custom user password policies. Let’s take […]
Handy Tips #21: Deploying Zabbix Server with Docker containers
January 19, 2022
Handy Tips
Deploy Zabbix components in docker containers for advanced automation, scalability, and maintenance. In the past few years, containers have gained prevalence and are being used for many different tasks – from application development to improving automation and management of existing software. Deploy Zabbix components in Docker containers: Official Docker images are available for individual components […]
New Agent 2 features in Zabbix 6.0 LTS by Aigars Kadiķis / Zabbix Summit Online 2021
January 18, 2022
Conferences
Zabbix Agent 2 has been developed to provide additional benefits to our users – From a larger set of supported metrics to metric collection logic improvements and simplified custom monitoring plugin development. Let’s look at what new features Zabbix Agent 2 will receive in Zabbix 6.0 LTS. The full recording of the speech is available […]
