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api
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 […]
Monitoring MDM Certificates with Lab9 Pro and Zabbix
October 28, 2025
Case Study
Lab9 Pro is the B2B division of Lab9, Belgium’s leading Apple Premium Partner. With over 30 years of experience, Lab9 Pro specializes in integrating and supporting Apple systems within businesses, educational institutions, and public organizations. Beyond Apple expertise, Lab9 Pro also designs, implements, and maintains complete IT infrastructures, including networks, servers, storage, and security solutions.
Migrating from PRTG to Zabbix: A High-Level Guide
September 2, 2025
Community
For companies looking to migrate from PRTG Network Monitor to Zabbix, one of the most critical aspects is making sure a smooth migration of monitored devices and configurations. While there is no official tool to directly migrate between the two platforms, creating a bridge using custom export/import scripts allows for an effective and large migation. […]
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 […]
Using the zabbix_utils Library for Tool Development
November 12, 2024
How To
In this article, we will explore a practical example of using the zabbix_utils library to solve a non-trivial task – obtaining a list of alert recipients for triggers associated with a specific Zabbix host. You will learn how to easily automate the process of collecting this information, and see examples of real code that can […]
What’s Up, Home? – Monitor your ad blocker with Zabbix
November 28, 2023
Community
Can you monitor your ad blocker with Zabbix? Of course, you can!
How to write a webhook for Zabbix
February 7, 2023
How To
As you know, a picture is worth a thousand words. Therefore, I would like to share the process of creating a webhook from scratch. In this article, we will walk through the creation process step by step – starting with studying the target service with which Zabbix will integrate and finishing with tests for sending […]
Backups to the rescue!
September 30, 2022
How To
In this blog post, you will learn how to set up backups for your Zabbix environment. There’s a wide variety of different options when it comes to taking backups of our Zabbix environment, for us, it will just be a matter of choosing the right fit.
Handy Tips #37: Collecting metrics from HTTP endpoints with HTTP agent items
September 8, 2022
Handy Tips
Collect metrics from HTTP endpoints such as web application APIs by defining HTTP agent items. Collecting metrics from web services and applications is a complex affair usually done by scripting around CLIs and APIs. Organizations require an efficient way to monitor such and endpoints and react to collected data. Collect and react to data from […]
Zabbix meets television – Clever use of Zabbix features by Wolfgang Alper / Zabbix Summit Online 2021
January 28, 2022
Conferences
TV broadcasting infrastructures have seen many great paradigm shifts over the years. From TV to live streaming – the underlying architecture consists of many moving parts supplied by different vendors and solutions. Any potential problems can cause critical downtimes, which are simply not acceptable. Let’s look at how Zabbix fits right into such a dynamic […]
Advanced Zabbix API – 5 API use cases to improve your API workflows
November 18, 2021
How To
As your monitoring infrastructures evolve, you might hit a point when there’s no avoiding using the Zabbix API. The Zabbix API can be used to automate a particular part of your day-to-day workflow, troubleshoot your monitoring or to simply analyze or get statistics about a specific set of entities. In this blog post, we will […]
Simplifying Zabbix API workflows with named Zabbix API tokens
November 11, 2021
How To
Zabbix API enables you to collect any and all information from your Zabbix instance by using a multitude of API methods. You can even utilize Zabbix API calls in your HTTP items. For example, this can be used to monitor the number of particular sets of metrics and visualize their growth over time. With named […]
