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Saving Time with a Custom Zabbix Agent Installer
December 4, 2025
Handy Tips
When managing large-scale infrastructure, the process of installing monitoring agents is often repetitive and time-consuming. Administrators must log into each server, manually run installation commands, and configure the agent to connect to the Zabbix server. To address this issue, the Zabbix Agent Deployer custom module was created. This module enables the direct installation of Zabbix […]
Aruba Central API Monitoring with Zabbix
November 25, 2025
Handy Tips
Aruba Central is a SaaS solution that allows you to manage your Enterprise Aruba network environment. Due to the increasing number of cloud migrations, we can expect that more and more Aruba customers will move their on-premise environment to it, which will also mean a change in their monitoring environment. In this article, I will […]
Scheduled report generation in Zabbix 5.4
July 13, 2021
Conferences
The release of version 5.4 grants Zabbix users the ability to receive scheduled PDF reports in their mailbox, which is a very sought-after feature. This post and the video will cover all-new report-related configuration parameters and walk you through setting up scheduled report generation.
Handy Tips #1: Zabbix API tokens for secure integrations
July 7, 2021
Handy Tips
Learn about best practices to secure your Zabbix API using token-based authentication and create seamless and protected integrations with any software. Previously, the only way to access Zabbix API was to pass Zabbix login credentials through user.login method. So, the common practice was to create a special API-only user with disabled access to frontend and […]
Scalability improvements
July 6, 2021
News
New improvements might be unnoticed by many Zabbix users since they come to scalability, rather than to new features or some aspects of the user interface experience. However, these improvements might be beneficial for those Zabbix users who run really large instances.
Triggers, calculated and aggregated items in Zabbix 5.4
June 29, 2021
Conferences
In earlier Zabbix versions, we had three categories of things we could manage inside the instance — triggers, calculated items, and aggregated items. Each of them had its own syntax, so we could not be sure what syntax to use in a certain case. That’s why we introduced the unified syntax for every category inside […]
Auto-healing Kafka connector tasks with Zabbix
June 22, 2021
Community
In this post, we will talk about the low-level discovery of Kafka connectors and tasks. When a Kafka task fails, a trigger is fired, which starts a remote command to restart the failed Kafka task. Of course, with the necessary logging around it.
What’s new in Zabbix 5.4
June 10, 2021
Conferences
Zabbix 5.4.0 released on May 17, 2021 — a non-LTS release that will be supported only for 7-8 months, has already received a lot of attention from our users, our community, and our customers due to a number of very significant and long-anticipated improvements. Zabbix 5.4.0 release comes with scheduled PDF report generation, robust problem […]
