Zabbix distributes Docker images for each component. Not only does this mean you can quickly standup the monitoring solution, but upgrades also become a simple matter of trading up images. In this article, I will show how to stand up and then upgrade a zabbix installation using docker-compose.
The Windows Zabbix Agent provides a native interface to the Windows Performance Counters. and Event Log. This means that with minimal overhead, and no additional shells out to Powerscript or the command line, you can collect any of the metrics available from PerfMon or Event Viewer.
Zabbix low-level discovery (LLD) provides a way to create an array of related items, triggers, or graphs without needing to know the exact number of entities up front. The easiest way to populate the keys of a discovery item is to add a “UserParameter” in zabbix_agentd.conf, and then the Zabbix agent will invokes a script which returns the set … Zabbix: LLD low-level discovery returning multiple values
The open-source Zabbix monitoring solution has a published, simple binary protocol that allows you to send metrics to the Zabbix server without relying on the Zabbix Agent – which makes it very convenient for integration with other parts of your infrastructure. In this article, I’ll show how to use the go-zabbix package for sending metrics to … Zabbix: Sending Zabbix metrics using a Go client
The open-source Zabbix monitoring solution has a REST API that provides the ability for deep integrations with your existing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems. This fosters development of community-driven modules like Ryan Day’s zabbix Go language package, which is an easy way to automate Zabbix tasks like creating hosts and manipulating other back end structures. One of the nice things … Zabbix: Zabbix REST API using a Go client
The open-source Zabbix monitoring solution has a REST API that provides the ability for deep integrations with your existing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems. This fosters development of community-driven modules like the py-zabbix Python module, which is an easy way to automate Zabbix as well as send/retrieve metrics.
The open-source Zabbix monitoring solution has very lightweight agents that are easy to install on Ubuntu. Although the Ubuntu main repository has a build available, it is older and so we are going to choose to download and install the latest point version in this article. Unfortunately, the repo.zabbix.com cannot be added directly as an Ubuntu … Zabbix: Installing a Zabbix Agent on Ubuntu 14.04
Zabbix is an open-source monitoring solution that provides metrics collection, dynamic indexes, alerting, dashboards, and an API for external integration. But graphing is arguably one Zabbix’s weak points; it still builds static images while other enterprise and consumer applications have set end users’ expectations for graph visualization and interactivity very high. Luckily, the Zabbix plugin … Grafana: Connecting to a Zabbix datasource
Until Zabbix3, trend data was not available via the Zabbix API. This meant that you could retrieve the raw values of a key over time, but not the aggregated historical trends of that value (e.g. CPU average over 5 minute intervals). The only way to monitor trends was to look at the visual graph generated … Zabbix: Enabling API fetch of Trend data in Zabbix2
Having Zabbix send alert mails directly to user groups is typically outgrown as the system matures and the number of alerts increase, new lines of business and engineering groups are on-boarded, and on-call scheduling is implemented. If you already use PagerDuty for on-call scheduling, then it makes perfect sense to have Zabbix create incidents in … Zabbix: Alert to PagerDuty using Zabbix3