Zabbix

Keep Your Software’s Up to Date with Zabbix

Monitoring tools are increasingly going beyond their usual perimeter of just monitoring metrics. Modern tools, like Zabbix, can watch files for any change and raise warning whenever it occurs. An example I found the “Linux by Zabbix agent” template: Computing(…)

Modifying a Zabbix Template for WildFly JVM Monitoring

Zabbix provides templates easy to setup which do not require any external scripts. As an example, you can check one of my previous blog post on the subject where I monitored a WildFly server. These one(…)

Adapt Zabbix to Your Needs

Zabbix comes with an long list of smart and customizable templates (more than 270). In this blog post, I will explain how to customize these templates and adapt them to your environment’s needs. Macro The first level of customization is(…)

Zabbix Report Scheduler Setup and Troubleshooting

I wanted to test the Zabbix report scheduler. In this blog, I will explain how to do it as well as the different issues I faced (with cause and resolution, obviously 🙂 ). By the way, report scheduler is a(…)

Zabbix Better Storage

Among the different possibilities for Zabbix storage, one piqued my curiosity: TimescaleDB TimescaleDB is a time series database plugin for PostgreSQL. Joël Cattin already blogged about it here from a general point(…)

Zabbix Configuration with API

Despite the will of Zabbix to be as automated as possible, some tasks cannot be automated. Nevertheless, Zabbix offers an HTTP-based API which can be used programmatically. This opens the door to huge possibilities in terms of automation. JSON-RPC JSON-RPC(…)

Zabbix Proxy

Among the different packages provided by Zabbix, one arouse my curiosity: Proxy. What is its purpose? When to use it? How to install it? I will cover these in this blog post. Intention There are multiple reasons to use a(…)

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 model(…)

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, the first(…)

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, manual(…)