Zabbix

Zabbix (2001) is an open source monitoring software for networks, operating systems and applications. It is designed following a Client-server architecture to monitor and track the status of various services components: network, servers, and network hardware.

Zabbbix client software is Zabbix agent while server listen on TCP port 10050 and 10051.

You can installing it using official Zabbix installation instructions or running it using a docker container

Features

• SLA, and ITIL KPI metrics calculations

Configuration

• /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

Binaries

• zabbix_server
• zabbix_get

Install Zabbix on macOS

• brew install zabbix

Related terms

• Terraform
• Zabbix agent (zabbix_agentd.conf)
• Notifications: Discord, Email, Mattermost, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, Pushover, Slack, SMS )
• zabbix_server.conf
• Zabbix modules
• Simple checks based on fping or tcp/udp checks
• Probe: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/config/items/itemtypes/ssh_checks

Activities

1. Install Zabbix using Docker
2. Add your first Zabbix hosts (monitored machine)
3. Create you first web monitoring and define a new trigger it.

Advanced

1. Install Zabbix plugin on Grafana: grafana-cli plugins install alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app
2. Review Ansible Zabbix modules: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_monitoring_modules.html#zabbix

See also

• Zabbix, Zabbix releases, Install Zabbix using Docker, Zabbix agent (zabbix_agentd.conf), Zabbix API, zabbix_server, zabbix_get, zabbix_sender, /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
• Monitoring: On call, Monitoring software, Monitoring services, Resource monitoring, Metric colletion tools, network monitoring, SLA Management Monitoring Tools, Alarm/Alert, Resource starvation, Alerts and notifications, Monitoring Kubernetes, VictoriaMetrics, Sensu, LogicMonitor, Distributed tracing, Datadog Monitors
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Cacti, monit, munin, RRDtool, Zabbix, Netdata, Nagios, Check MK, Icinga, Pingdom, OpsGenie and Datadog, Opsgenie, PRTG, Checkmk

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