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24/7 Alerting and Two-Way Integration with Zabbix and SIGNL4
December 9, 2025
Handy Tips
It’s a familiar story for many IT operations teams: a critical server went down overnight, but the alert was buried in someone’s inbox. By the time anyone noticed, valuable time was lost, SLAs were breached, and the team spent the next morning explaining why an email hadn’t been seen. Email (or even SMS text) alone […]
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 […]
Podman Container Monitoring with Prometheus Exporter, part 1
June 10, 2025
Handy Tips
In part one of this blog post, I will show you how to monitor Podman pods using HTTP agent item to retrieve data from the Prometheus Podman exporter. Let’s get started!
Database Monitoring using Zabbix agent 2 – Part 1, SQL
June 3, 2025
Handy Tips
If you find yourself needing additional flexibility when it comes to database monitoring, Zabbix agent 2 may be exactly what you need. Keep reading to see which features make it ideal for database monitoring and find out how to best use them for your own purposes.
Next-Level Alert Analysis with DeepSeek and Zabbix
May 27, 2025
Integrations
As IT infrastructures grow increasingly complex, efficiently analyzing monitoring data and accelerating incident response have become critical challenges for operations teams. This post explores a few innovative applications of DeepSeek when integrated with Zabbix.
Let Zabbix be your Lucky Lady for Lotto Numbers
May 23, 2025
Community
Many years ago, maybe around 2017 or 2018, one of my ex-colleagues (Hi, Kevin!) said that I would probably even use Zabbix to come up with the winning lotto numbers. Just to strike back, I did exactly that with a small “easter egg” in Zabbix containing the lotto numbers – a quick bash script feeding […]
Interactive Dashboard Creation for Large Organizations and MSPs
May 19, 2025
How To
Dashboard widgets have received substantial improvements in the latest Zabbix releases – everything from brand-new widgets to greatly expanding upon existing widget features. The post will cover some of the new improvements as well as lesser-known dashboard and widget features, while discussing multiple dashboard use cases targeted at large organizations and MSPs.
Optimizing Incident Management with Zabbix and PagerDuty
May 13, 2025
Community
When monitoring environments, we sometimes need to rely on third-party tools to better manage functionality and optimize responses to alerts. Let’s explore how to integrate Zabbix with PagerDuty, a real-time incident management solution designed to improve the reliability of digital services, including best practices and configuration details.
