Zabbix

Monitor Elasticsearch Cluster with Zabbix

Setting up Zabbix monitoring over an Elasticsearch cluster is quiet easy as it does not require an agent install. As a matter a fact, the official template uses the Elastic REST API. Zabbix server itself will(…)

Apache httpd Tuning and Monitoring with Zabbix

There is no tuning possible without a proper monitoring in place to measure the impact of any changes. Thus, before trying to tune an Apache httpd server, I will explain how to monitor it with Zabbix. Setup Zabbix Monitoring Apache(…)

Monitor Kubernetes with Zabbix

Zabbix might not be the first monitoring tool that comes in mind when you want to monitor a Kubernetes cluster (Did you say Prometheus? 🙂 ). Nevertheless, as an open-source project, Zabbix have affinities with others open-source projects. In this(…)

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 users,(…)

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 not(…)

Monitor M-Files with Zabbix

So far, for Zabbix monitoring, I only covered Linux based servers. We can put aside MS-SQL which was monitored via ODBC, thus without any Zabbix agent involved. In this blog post, I will explain you how(…)

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 should you(…)

Monitor Microsoft SQL Server with Zabbix

In this blog post, we will quickly see what is required to monitor a Microsoft SQL Server with Zabbix. Agent Setup Agent setup is not required by MSSQL by ODBC template; thus this step can be skipped. Setup Monitoring Account(…)

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 Apache(…)

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 chose(…)