In this blog post, we will talk about maintaining and storing the Zabbix API session key in an automated fashion. The blog post builds upon the Close problem automatically via Zabbix API subject and can be used as extra configuration for this particular use-case. The blog post also shares a great example of synthetic monitoring […]

In this blog post, you will learn how to set up manual ticket creation through the use of Zabbix frontend scripts. We will use Jira Service Desk as an example, but this guide should work for any type of service desk or help desk system, as we can apply this technique for other systems in […]

Overrides is an often overlooked feature of Low-level discovery that makes the discovery of different entities in your environment so much more flexible. In this blog post, we will take a look at how overrides work and how we can use them to extend our Low-level discovery rules with additional logic.

Zabbix 5.4 has introduced a new unified syntax for trigger expressions and calculated items (including aggregate calculations). Discover what has changed and why the new syntax is better. Trigger expressions in Zabbix are used to define problem thresholds. An example of the old syntax: {<host>:<key>.<function>(<parameter>)}<operator><constant> Since Zabbix 5.4 the syntax of the trigger formula has […]

There are many monitoring solutions and monitoring tools that you can use for different monitoring tasks. But in this post and video, we will focus only on Zabbix and the top five features making Zabbix the best choice to monitor your home office as well as enterprise instances or projects.

Zabbix value maps have become more powerful with the support of ranges and regex. Learn new tricks to display meaningful values instead of raw data. Previously, value maps only supported one-to-one mapping and could only be configured on a global level. This approach had many limitations. First, only super admins could create new value maps. […]