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Zabbix – the Swiss Army knife of monitoring

In today’s data-driven economy, downtime isn’t just an IT headache; it’s a direct hit to your bottom line. As modern environments grow more complex, spanning hybrid clouds, edge devices, and massive enterprise clusters, Zabbix monitoring provides the single source of(…)

Observability vs Monitoring

As engineers, we’ve all built dashboards, tuned alerts, and fought noisy monitoring systems. Tools like Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, or(…)

Zabbix Agent 2 service terminated unexpectedly on Windows server

Introductiom The Zabbix Agent 2 service on a Windows server was repeatedly becoming unresponsive and eventually crashing. The issue caused intermittent monitoring interruptions and required further investigation through Event Viewer messages and Zabbix Agent 2 logs to better understand why(…)

Monitoring MSSQL Database Files in Zabbix

Introduction Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server database files is an important part of infrastructure supervision.A database reaching its storage limit can rapidly lead to application outages, transaction failures, or even complete service interruptions. The Initial Problem In SQL Server, retrieving(…)

Zabbix – Monitoring full cluster Patroni/PostgreSQL

Introduction Monitoring a PostgreSQL environment involves much more than simply checking whether the database is running. In a modern high availability architecture, multiple components work together to keep the service available and stable. In this article, we will explain how(…)

Zabbix – Oracle backups monitoring

If your Oracle database is running in ARCHIVELOG mode, monitoring your backups is essential.Without proper backup supervision, the Fast Recovery Area (FRA) can eventually become full, which may block archive log generation and, in the worst case, stop database activity.

OGG-08502 Path not found error from OGG Receiver Service

Update: this bug seems to be corrected with the latest GoldenGate patch (23.26.2.0.1). If you face this error, try to patch your GoldenGate deployments. Recently, after a successful migration to GoldenGate 26ai, a customer complained that he was(…)

Install and configure OEM plug-in for GoldenGate

If you are licensed for the GoldenGate Management Pack, using the Enterprise Manager plug-in for GoldenGate improves monitoring and management of your deployments. And after migrating to the Microservices Architecture, you should definitely update your plug-in and rediscover all(…)

Monitoring GoldenGate certificates expiration

Your GoldenGate certificates should be granted by a trusted Certificate Authority, which normally handles the monitoring of certificates. However, if you don’t want your future you, or a colleague, to spend too much time debugging which certificate should be(…)

Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana for a Patroni cluster

In today’s data-driven world, monitoring and visualizing the health and performance of your database clusters is a must. With tools like Prometheus and Grafana, you can gain valuable insights into your PostgreSQL Patroni setup, ensuring its smooth operation and(…)