At the recent Zabbix Summit community meeting, participants gathered to discuss an exciting initiative – the creation of the first-ever community-driven Zabbix book. While several books about Zabbix have been published in the past (often written by individual authors over a decade ago), this project marks a new milestone. For the first time, Zabbix community […]

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Did you realize that you can monitor a Starlink dish using just Zabbix? The idea (or rather the need) to use Starlink came to me almost as soon as I moved to a fairly rural area. Local internet providers have not yet “provided” fiberoptic or stable mobile connectivity to places like this, and while searching […]

Zabbix Summit 2025 is officially in the history books, so now is the perfect time for a casual, behind‑the‑scenes run‑through of what went down. If you were there, this should ring a few bells (or spark some “oh hey, I forgot about that” moments). If you couldn’t make it, consider this your own personal highlight […]

If you are running Zabbix, you know that it can be a tedious job to add hosts, link templates, and (even harder) make sure it is consistent with your CMDB. What if you already have a CMDB? In that case, it means you need to synchronize the CMDB with Zabbix…manually? Of course not!

High availability on a platform like Zabbix is a hard requirement for many users. With native high availability on the Zabbix servers, proxies, and at the frontend through various solutions for web servers, all that’s left is at the database layer. Any downtime in your MariaDB database would disrupt your monitoring availability, at the least […]