Zabbix

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 🙂 .

Defining Custom Monitoring Metric in Zabbix

In this blog, we will see how to add custom monitoring metric into Zabbix and, more precisely, get Java Virtual Machine (JVM) garbage collector heap statics. jstat OpenJDK includes an interesting tool to monitor a JVM: jstat.

Oracle Database monitoring with Zabbix

Zabbix comes with an Oracle Database monitoring template out-of-the-box, so it should not be too complicated to integrate one server. Nevertheless, I faced a few issues while trying to setup one and I will detail these steps below. Agent(…)

WildFly monitoring in Zabbix

Zabbix is a fully featured open-source monitoring solution. I wanted to evaluate how easy it is to monitor an application server like WildFly. Server Installation First component to install is the server which also(…)

Open source monitoring solutions (2) – Zabbix agents and PostgreSQL monitoring

By the end of the last post we finished with a running Zabbix server which uses PostgreSQL as it's back-end database. In addition a Zabbix agent is running on the same host, so the monitoring host itself(…)

Open source monitoring solutions (1) – Zabbix server setup

We are often asked which monitoring solution we recommend for PostgreSQL, by people attending our PostgreSQL workshops. We usually answer: What do you have in place already? If a solution already is in place, the most obvious(…)