Tips, Templates and Guides for the Zabbix Monitoring Platform
As a system administrator, one of the key challenges is to ensure that your monitoring is efficient. In this blog post, I will explain how I structure my Zabbix monitoring to maximize efficiency and reduce unnecessary polling of metrics, while still getting the level of detail that I need on…
Leave a CommentEven though 6.0 was previously announced as arriving in “January” during the Zabbix Summet 2021… it’s finally here! This new major long-term support version of Zabbix, brings a slew of new features, improvements and fixes to Zabbix, your monitoring infrastructure. Highlights Service monitoring Complete redesigned for 6.0 Flexible service state…
Leave a CommentUsing Zabbix Dependent Items and JSONPath we can significantly reduce the number of times we hit an API when monitoring the metrics it makes available to us. Most web API’s today use some sort of JSON-formatted data structure to deliver data. Dependent Items and JSONPath allow us to dig through…
Leave a CommentWith Preprocessing you can alter, fit and adjust your incoming data in any way shape or form you wish. This serves many purposes, e.g. your devices might not present data in the right format or gather numbered metrics to the right decimal. Excerpt from zabbix.com about item preprocessing: Item value…
Leave a CommentZabbix Agents are a key part of your monitoring infrastructure and a secure configuration ensures safe and reliable operation. Excerpt from zabbix.com about agents: A native Zabbix agent, developed in C language, may run on various supported platforms, including Linux, UNIX and Windows, and collect data such as CPU, memory,…
Leave a CommentHaving out-grown the included Zabbix Web Interface templates, I find myself more often than not, having to create new templates as well as entirely new ways of monitoring hardware and software. I often create custom discovery rules to dynamically create new items as services and devices change. This very powerful…
7 CommentsThe next major release version of Zabbix is now available! Zabbix 3.2 brings both new features and many UI and performance improvements along with it. This release introduces many improvements and added functionality. Detailed release notes are available here: Zabbix 3.2.0 Release Notes Zabbix 3.2 – Highlights Event tags for…
1 CommentMost Linux distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Debian etc.) offer the ability to bond multiple networks devices together into Bonding Interfaces, using the bonding kernel module. Bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, which as a result can provide redundancy and additional bandwidth. The Linux bonding kernel module…
15 CommentsOne of the primary reasons of acquiring a monitoring solution, is to receive alerts of potential issues and correct them before they become issues. A classic scenario is that you start out by checking whether your hosts are replying to ICMP ping requests. You slowly become more curious and start…
Leave a CommentTemperature and humidity will have a substantial effect on the lifespan of your hardware. Almost all computers and servers have several temperature sensors for gathering component or ambient temperatures. Humidity sensors though, are often overlooked. With very few and inexpensive components, we can monitor both in Zabbix. In short, we…
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