monitoring

Can you monitor the signal strength of different Wi-Fi devices that are connected to your (home) router with Zabbix? Of course you can! This is a really quick post that also shows how ChatGPT or any LLM can boost your productivity when doing this kind of thing.

Monitoring data storage systems is the key to keeping modern IT systems running smoothly. With the rapid growth of data and the need for instant access, using high-performance solutions like Pure Storage FlashArray is not just an advantage – it’s a necessity. However, even the most advanced systems require careful oversight regarding their performance and […]

A well-designed monitoring dashboard is the key to helping users process, interact with, and analyze data. Done right, it allows key decision-makers to track metrics and gain insights in an organized, easy-to-read format, while giving technical teams complete visibility into IT performance at a single glance. Done wrong, it creates information overload, with too much […]

This week’s blog entry comes to us from Nyein Chan Zaw, who is based in Bangkok, Thailand and works as an Infrastructure Specialist for Green Will Solution. Read on to see how he uses his integrating a Modbus protocol with Zabbix to monitor data from temperature, humidity, and smoke sensors — and display their metrics […]

Time waits for no one, and as impossible as it may seem, one of the most consequential years in the history of Zabbix is already in the books. You can be forgiven for feeling at times like we were trying to cram a decade of events into a single year, which is why we’ve prepared […]

SEB Bank is a major financial services group based in Stockholm, Sweden. It serves northern Europe, particularly the Nordic and Baltic regions. Known for its digital innovation and commitment to sustainability, SEB offers banking, investment, and financial advisory services to individuals, businesses, and institutions, focusing on long-term relationships and financial stability. This case study, which […]

We have often seen Zabbix used as a simple tool for monitoring network assets as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure. While this concept is not incorrect, it is equally important to understand that with the advancement of Zabbix versions, more and more functionalities have been made available for other types of monitoring, […]

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring tool designed to oversee multiple IT infrastructure components, including networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services. It operates using both agent-based and agentless monitoring methods. Agents can be installed on monitored devices to collect performance data and report back to a centralized Zabbix server.

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 […]

Inviting the members of our global community to share their Zabbix dashboards with us prompted a flood of fascinating responses, and we’re highlighting a few of the most interesting submissions here on our blog. This week’s entry comes to us from Nyein Chan Zaw, who is based in Bangkok, Thailand and works as an Infrastructure […]

Zabbix Summit 2024 is only a few days away, which means that it’s time for the last of our interviews with Summit speakers. Our final chat this year is with Tomáš Heřmánek, the CEO and Founder of initMAX s.r.o. We asked him about his beginnings in the tech industry, how he got started with Zabbix, […]

We’ve all been in a situation in which Zabbix was somehow unavailable. It can happen for a variety of reasons, and our goal is always to help you get everything back up and running as quickly as possible. In this blog post, we’ll show you what to do in the event of a Zabbix failure, […]