Monitoring

Configure Zabbix with Ansible

Besides the ability to setup your Zabbix server, proxy and agents, the Ansible collection for Zabbix (ie. community.zabbix) also allows to configure every aspects of your Zabbix system. From hosts to(…)

Zabbix Web Monitoring

Zabbix allows to create complex web monitoring scenario and gather metrics about it. In this blog post, we will see how to assess that we are able to login to M-Files web application and, to(…)

Zabbix in the Middle of Prometheus and Grafana

In this blog post, I will show you how to gather metrics from a OpenTelemetry interface from a Zabbix server and how to display Zabbix data in Grafana. Why Should I do that? First, you might wonder why(…)

Monitor Alfresco with Zabbix

In this blog post, I will share a few obstacles I have encountered while trying to monitor a complete Alfresco setup with all these components. As an overview, here are the templates I will use: Apache ActiveMQ by JMX(…)

AWS Monitoring with Zabbix

Until recently, I did not notice that Zabbix templates can also include Hosts prototypes under (Low Level) Discovery Rules. I wondered why, so I decided to look at pre-existing templates to check what is the aim for it. I(…)

Nagios Remote Plugin Executor and EV Observe

Nagios Remote Plugin Executor, in short NRPE, is the nagios server plugin required to call script hosted on agents we want to monitor. You might wonder why I would try this agent when I am not using Nagios server.

Monitoring Scripts with Zabbix

In a similar manner as in this Prometheus blog, you might want to monitor scripts which are short living or do not fit the pull-model (Server pulling from agent). Thus, it can use the push(…)

Zabbix from Problem to Remediation

Until now, in my previous blog posts, we did not cover one of the main features of any monitoring platform: Alarming. In Zabbix, it is named triggers. Item and Trigger Trigger is based on an item calculation. Thus,(…)

Zabbix Agent Automated Registration

For those reading my blog posts regularly, you know I am an fan of automation. Declaring each host in Zabbix configuration manually is not an idea I like very much. Moreover, in dynamic environments which are moving a lot,(…)

Zabbix Automatic Item Creation

In my previous Zabbix blog post, I wanted to monitor JVM garbage collection metrics. As there are 17 items to create, I looked for a way to automatically create them. I found it 🙂 .