monitoring

We all know the panic when the print system goes down. As I’ve written about before, PaperCut NG is a fantastic tool for managing printing, but even the best software needs a watchful eye to prevent unexpected downtime.

The official Zabbix frontend works great on desktop, but it isn’t built for mobile. Monitoring doesn’t end when you step away from your workstation, and a reliable Zabbix mobile app keeps you connected to your Zabbix environment, gives you instant notifications, and allows you to react to problems or just check your host configuration at […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

No matter what business you’re in, there is one universal truth – your success or failure depends on customer satisfaction and trust. And when your IT systems fail, it’s your customers who pay the price. Being unable to place an order due to unexpected downtime (which can cost a large organization as much as $9,000 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment demands reliability and resilience. When your monitoring solution is down, you’re flying blind – and for many organizations, that simply isn’t acceptable. This post introduces a robust high-availability (HA) architecture for Zabbix, using PostgreSQL,  Patroni, etcd, HAProxy, keepalived and PgBackRest. Built on RHEL 9 or […]

There are plenty of good reasons to attend Zabbix Summit 2025, but one of the most important is the fact that this year’s Summit will feature Dylan Beattie as a special guest speaker. A Software Development Consultant and Founder of Ursatile, Dylan is an international keynote speaker, and a long-time contributor to the open-source 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. […]