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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By: Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel

Overview of this book

Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its variety of powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 5 for effectively monitoring the performance of devices and applications over networks. The book starts by guiding you through the installation of Zabbix and using the Zabbix frontend. You'll then work your way through the most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. The book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your everyday Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this Zabbix book, you’ll have learned how to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Navigating the frontend

Navigating the Zabbix frontend is easier than it looks at first glance, especially with some of the amazing changes made in Zabbix 5.0. Let's explore the Zabbix navigational UI some more in this recipe by looking at the navigation bar and what it has to offer.

Getting ready

Now that we've seen the first page after logging in with the default dashboard, it is time to start navigating through the Zabbix UI and see some of the other pages available. We'll move through the sidebar and explore the pages available in our Zabbix installation so that when we start monitoring our networks and applications, we know where we can find everything.

So, before continuing, make sure you have the Zabbix server ready as set up in the previous recipes.

How to do it…

The Zabbix navigation bar is the gateway to all of our powerful tools and configuration settings. Zabbix uses a left-side navigation bar to keep our UI as clean as possible. On...