Tips, Templates and Guides for the Zabbix Monitoring Platform
Even though 6.0 was previously announced as arriving in “January” during the Zabbix Summit 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 A bunch more improvements are available in the new…
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 CommentsMost 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 CommentsTemperature 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…
51 CommentsPowerDNS is a high-performance DNS server and recursor written in C++ and Zabbix can easily keep track of how it’s doing! It runs on most Unix variants. It features a large number of different back-ends ranging from simple BIND style zone files to relational databases and load balancing/failover algorithms. A…
3 CommentsThe entire purpose of monitoring, is making sure your systems and services are functioning as expected. As expected to who though? The point of view matters quite a bit here, both to a potential service end-user and to you as an administrator of said service. Take a classic LAMP setup…
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