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Exploring AI Integration in Zabbix with Gemini and WebMCP
June 9, 2026
Integrations
When I first started working with Zabbix in banking and telecommunications over a decade ago, the workflow was always the same: something breaks, an alert fires, you open the dashboard, you diagnose, you fix. Every step required a human sitting in front of a screen reading charts and making decisions.
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 […]
Handy Tips #19: Preventing alert storms with trigger dependencies
January 6, 2022
Handy Tips
Prevent receiving a flood of unwanted alerts and receive only the most critical notifications by defining trigger dependencies. Every IT infrastructure has multiple elements, failure of which can cause a cascading set of problems across the particular infrastructure segment. It is important to prevent an unwanted alert storm and highlight only the root cause problem […]
A guide to migrating to Zabbix 6.0 LTS by Edgars Melveris / Zabbix Summit Online 2021
January 4, 2022
Conferences
Upgrading to a new software version can be an intimidating process, especially if you are upgrading your Zabbix instance for the first time. In this blog post, we will take a look at the upgrade process itself, the necessary pre-requisites, and also what changes you can expect to the existing functionality when you’ve migrated to […]
Top 10 reasons to migrate to Zabbix 6.0 LTS by Dmitry Krupornitsky / Zabbix Summit Online 2021
December 29, 2021
Conferences
Today we will take a look at the top 10 reasons to migrate to Zabbix 6.0 LTS. We will discuss features and changes included not only in Zabbix 6.0 LTS but also in major intermediate versions – Zabbix 5.2 and Zabbix 5.4. The full recording of the speech is available on the official Zabbix Youtube […]
Handy Tips #18: Distributed monitoring with a lightweight Zabbix SQLite proxy
December 28, 2021
Handy Tips
Distribute your monitoring by deploying a lightweight Zabbix SQLite proxy in 5 minutes. Monitoring remote data centers can be challenging when the data collection is performed from a single location. Distributed monitoring can help us resolve potential issues such as loss of data in case of network outages, horizontal scalability, and much more. Distribute and […]
What a fantastic year it was!
December 22, 2021
Social
The year 2021 is coming to the end and what a year it has been for Zabbix! Thank you for spending this year with us – installing new versions of Zabbix, solving monitoring tasks on the forum and community groups, reading our blog posts and watching videos, attending our events, and much more. Let’s look […]
Handy Tips #17: Master and dependent items for bulk metric collection
December 20, 2021
Handy Tips
Collect metrics in bulk and reduce monitoring performance overhead with master and dependent items. Data collection efficiency is an important aspect of monitoring. We need to ensure that our monitoring approach has a minimal impact both on the monitoring system and the system that is being monitored. Improve your metric collection efficiency and reduce the […]
