Monitoring a Starlink Dish with Zabbix
Curious about keeping tabs on your Starlink internet performance? Whether you're off-grid or just love tracking your network performance, this post has you covered!
Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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Highway Monitoring with Zabbix and Nova Rota Oeste
April 1, 2026
Case Study
Nova Rota do Oeste (formerly Rota do Oeste) is a Brazilian highway concessionaire founded in 2014, responsible for managing more than 850 kilometers of highway that connects the cities of Sinop (MT), to the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.
Michael Kammer
Detect Issues in Your Zabbix Instance Before It’s Too Late
March 25, 2026
How To
In this blog post, I will show you how to detect performance issues in your Zabbix instance – in advance!
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
Expand your Knowledge at Zabbix Summit 2025
August 26, 2025
Community
October is just around the corner, and that annual shift into Q4 can mean only one thing – it’s almost Summit time! Zabbix Summit 2025 will take place on October 8-10 in Riga, Latvia at the Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija, and it’s shaping up to be the perfect blend of established traditions and fresh approaches […]
Michael Kammer
Proxy Group Load Balancing with SNMP Traps
August 19, 2025
Case Study
The new Zabbix proxy groups provide us with a method to provide both redundancy and load balancing in our Zabbix proxy setups. However, one major limitation arises when we want to use SNMP traps with these new proxy groups – it isn’t natively supported at the moment. One of our customers asked me to find […]
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions
Zabbix at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
August 14, 2025
Case Study
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL), located in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, is a key university with two campuses – Nanhu and Shouyi. The school boasts over 20,000 full-time undergraduate students, more than 8,800 graduate students, and over 2,500 faculty and staff members. ZUEL enjoys an outstanding reputation in the fields of law […]
Michael Kammer
Running Zabbix with PostgreSQL and PG Auto Failover
August 12, 2025
Handy Tips
Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment requires bulletproof availability at the database layer. Any downtime in PostgreSQL, even for seconds, can disrupt monitoring visibility, triggering blind spots in alerts and data collection.
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
When Generative AI Meets Zabbix
August 7, 2025
How To
Zabbix has been the backbone of my infrastructure for over ten years, a journey I’ve been on from version 3.2 to 7.4. It’s a robust and reliable tool. However, in the age of intelligent assistants, I posed a question to myself: Why can’t I interact with my monitoring system as naturally as I talk with […]
Cesar Caceres
With a strong track record in monitoring and optimization systems, I currently serve as a Senior Monitoring Specialist at Banco Nacional de Crédito (Venezuela), focusing on the implementation and improvement of Zabbix solutions. My experience spans from technical administration to strategic consulting, providing not only technical support but also proactive guidance for the security and efficiency of IT infrastructures.
Migrating Nagios to Zabbix: Lessons Learned
August 5, 2025
Community
Recently, a new customer of ours at Opensource ICT Solutions asked whether we could migrate their Nagios instance to Zabbix. Because Nagios and Zabbix are very different in their storage methods, we told them that we would have to investigate and see if we could come up with a viable solution. It wasn’t long until […]
Nathan Liefting
IT consultant & Zabbix Trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions