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Optimized Monitoring for Hybrid Environments with ICT Solutions
April 15, 2026
Case Study
ICT Solutions is a managed service provider (MSP) specializing in fully managed IT Support, cloud, cybersecurity and more. Based in Liverpool, they offer IT support across the UK.
Staying Secure: An Inside Look at Zabbix Security Advisories
April 8, 2026
How To
Security has always been a core priority for us at Zabbix. As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering a reliable and secure monitoring platform, we regularly publish security advisories that reflect both newly discovered vulnerabilities and the improvements we’ve made to address them.
Handy Tips #12: Optimizing Zabbix database size with custom data storage periods
November 18, 2021
Handy Tips
Zabbix allows its users to configure custom data retention periods for different types of data – from history and trend storage periods to user session storage periods. Data retention requirements can vary a lot between different environments. With considerations to data storage footprint and company policies, some environments might require storing months of historical data, […]
Advanced Zabbix API – 5 API use cases to improve your API workflows
November 18, 2021
How To
As your monitoring infrastructures evolve, you might hit a point when there’s no avoiding using the Zabbix API. The Zabbix API can be used to automate a particular part of your day-to-day workflow, troubleshoot your monitoring or to simply analyze or get statistics about a specific set of entities. In this blog post, we will […]
Zabbix 6.0 LTS at Zabbix Summit Online 2021
November 16, 2021
Community
With Zabbix Summit Online 2021 just around the corner, it’s time to have a quick overview of the 6.0 LTS features that we can expect to see featured during the event. The Zabbix 6.0 LTS release aims to deliver some of the long-awaited enterprise-level features while also improving the general user experience, performance, scalability, and […]
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 […]
