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Finalizing the installation of Zabbix Agent with Ansible

8 hours ago 0Comments 210Views Werner Dijkerman By Werner Dijkerman

In the previous blog posts, we created a Zabbix Server with a new user, a media type, and an action. In the 2nd blog post, we continued with creating and configuring a Zabbix Proxy. In the last part of this series of blog posts, we will install the Zabbix Agent on all of the 3 nodes we have running.

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Setting up Zabbix Agent 2 for PostgreSQL monitoring and revealing how it works

February 24, 2021 0Comments 690Views Daria Vilkova By Daria Vilkova

This article will recall the most important theses about the plugin for PostgreSQL monitoring for Zabbix Agent 2. Here you’ll find the explanation of how the plugin works under the hood illustrated with a simple example. You will also get familiar with a new mechanism of custom queries that let you collect metrics from separate SQL files on PC.

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Zabbix Low Level Discovery

How To Use Zabbix Low Level Discovery

April 29, 2020 0Comments 11730Views Dmitry Lambert By Dmitry Lambert

Low-level discovery (LLD) functionality allows you to dynamically monitor all your environment for metrics that can change from time to time, and also can be and are different between multiple servers. Zabbix monitoring software will connect to the device, check for entities that exist on it, and based on discovery output create regular items and triggers.

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Zabbix Agent: Active vs. Passive

March 23, 2020 2Comments 24526Views Dmitry Lambert By Dmitry Lambert

Learn how to get the most out of the Zabbix Agent active and passive modes to fix problems proactively with remote commands.

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Zabbix agent auto registration

Zabbix Agent Auto Registration

March 17, 2020 2Comments 6606Views Dmitry Lambert By Dmitry Lambert

Learn how to deploy the Zabbix agent on a large number of hosts using the auto registration feature and save your time on manual work.

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Developing plugins for Zabbix Agent 2

March 9, 2020 1Comment 4611Views Vadim Ipatov By Vadim Ipatov

Zabbix Agent 2 is a promising platform that gives Zabbix more capabilities for data collection. Written in the powerful Go language, this new agent provides more options for plugin developers. More than that, it is less complicated than C Loadable modules, so creating plugins is now much more accessible for everyone.

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Zabbix agent user parameter

Zabbix Agent User Parameters

December 10, 2019 0Comments 12009Views Dmitry Lambert By Dmitry Lambert

Learn how to extend Zabbix agent functionality by adding your own checks that can be both – dynamic and static.

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Magic of New Zabbix Agent

November 11, 2019 0Comments 10496Views Alexey Petrov By Alexey Petrov

Zabbix 4.4 introduces a new type of agent, zabbix_agent2, which offers a wide range of new capabilities and advanced monitoring functions.

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Zabbix Preprocessing

Deep Dive in Zabbix Preprocessing

November 11, 2019 0Comments 8305Views Arturs Lontons By Arturs Lontons

What are the different ways you can use Zabbix preprocessing and why you should consider implementing it in your environment? Let’s take a brief look at how Zabbix preprocessing has evolved and the technical nuances of transforming and storing your preprocessed data.

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Zabbix XPath Preprocessing

November 5, 2019 0Comments 8541Views Dmitry Lambert By Dmitry Lambert

Processing of XML documents were never as easy as now. Xpath preprocessing is available as a native functionality without any third party scripts or modules. Write your xpath query and use it against your XML document to extract desired value.

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