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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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
Port Monitoring with the Zabbix Widget Switch
March 18, 2026
Integrations
If you’ve ever monitored network switches in Zabbix, you know perfectly well that the data is there. Interfaces are polled via SNMP, triggers fire when a port goes down, and events are logged. Technically, everything works.
Patrik Uytterhoeven
Open-source consultant and
Zabbix trainer at OICTS
Zabbix at the Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
June 17, 2025
Case Study
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management is the Dutch ministry responsible for transport, aviation, housing policy, public works, spatial planning, land management, and water resource management. Created in 2010 following the merger of the Ministry of Transport and Water Management and the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and Environment, the ministry works to create an efficient network […]
Michael Kammer
Podman Container Monitoring with Prometheus Exporter, part 2
June 12, 2025
Handy Tips
In the first part of this post, we explored how to get data with HTTP agent from the Prometheus Podman exporter and use the same item data for the Podman pods Discovery rule as well as item and trigger prototypes. In part 2 of the same series, we’ll learn how to discover and monitor Podman […]
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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!
Janis Eidaks
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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.
Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs
Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer
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.
Zhe Cheng
Zabbix Community China
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 […]
Janne Pikkarainen
Senior System Engineer at Forcepoint LLC