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Detect Issues in Your Zabbix Instance Before It’s Too Late
March 25, 2026
How To
In this blog post, I will show you how to detect performance issues in your Zabbix instance – in advance!
Port Monitoring with the Zabbix Widget Switch
March 18, 2026
Integrations
If you’ve ever monitored network switches in Zabbix, you know perfectly well that the data is there. Interfaces are polled via SNMP, triggers fire when a port goes down, and events are logged. Technically, everything works.
Simplifying Zabbix API workflows with named Zabbix API tokens
November 11, 2021
How To
Zabbix API enables you to collect any and all information from your Zabbix instance by using a multitude of API methods. You can even utilize Zabbix API calls in your HTTP items. For example, this can be used to monitor the number of particular sets of metrics and visualize their growth over time. With named […]
Handy Tips #11: Collect and send custom metrics with Zabbix sender
November 11, 2021
Handy Tips
Collect custom metrics from your in-house applications and forward them to your Zabbix instance by utilizing the Zabbix sender command-line tool. As you scale up our monitoring, you will inevitably encounter a situation where a particular metric can be quite complex to collect with native monitoring techniques. Zabbix sender can use multiple methods to ingest […]
Interview with Zabbix Summit Online 2021 speaker: Vittorio Cioe
November 9, 2021
Community
With two weeks to go until Zabbix Summit 2021, we continue to introduce you to our guest speakers. Vittorio Cioe is already known to our community – he has participated in various Zabbix events, such as Zabbix summits and meetups. This year’s Zabbix Summit is not an exception. We asked Vittorio to tell us a few […]
Combining preprocessing with storing only trend data for high-frequency monitoring
November 4, 2021
How To
There are many design choices to consider when we build our monitoring environment for high-frequency monitoring. How to minimize performance impact? What are the data retention policies with storage space in mind? What are the available out-of-the-box features to solve these potential problems? In this blog post, we will discuss when you should use preprocessing […]
Handy Tips #10: Zabbix agent item Allow and Deny lists
November 4, 2021
Handy Tips
Restrict access to sensitive information by defining Zabbix agent item Allow and Deny lists. Zabbix agent enables Zabbix users to collect a multitude of metrics. In some environments collection of a particular metric should be restricted to prevent access to confidential data. Zabbix Agent Allow and Deny lists enable users to define flexible metric collection […]
Handy Tips #9: Native SSL/TLS certificate monitoring
October 29, 2021
Handy Tips
Track TLS/SSL certificate validity and expiration using the new Zabbix agent 2 template. Previously, Zabbix users had to rely on custom scripts to monitor website certificates as there was no native out-of-the-box solution to check TLS or SSL certificate validity and expiration date. This problem has been solved with the introduction of the new WebCertificate […]
