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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 […]
Zabbix and the Docker API, Part 1: Inspect
April 22, 2026
Handy Tips
In this blog post, I will show you how to configure Zabbix to securely gather Docker API metrics using the Zabbix HTTP agent item with certificate authentication. This guide will cover configuring the Docker API and the Zabbix server side to gather data more securely. Getting the data to Zabbix from the Docker API By […]
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 […]
ZABBIX – Open-Source Monitoring Software for Automotive Monitoring
January 17, 2022
Case Study
In this article, I will try to cover the theoretical models on monitoring your vehicle fleet with minimal to no cost at all by using the ELM327 microcontroller, a python library to process the collected data and a Zabbix proxy running on a small Raspberry Pi device to store and sent the collected metrics to […]
