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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)

Chapter 12: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration

For the last chapter, we have prepared something special. As a long-time Zabbix user, the importance of cloud integration for tools such as Zabbix has not gone unnoticed. For some people, the cloud can be daring, and so with this chapter, I want to show you just how easy it can be to start working with the most popular cloud providers and Zabbix.

We are going to start by talking about monitoring the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud with Zabbix. Then we will also see how the same things are done using Microsoft Azure so we can clearly see the differences.

After going through these cloud products, we'll also check out container monitoring with Docker, a very popular product that can also benefit greatly from setting up Zabbix monitoring. Follow these recipes closely and you will be able to monitor all of these products easily and work to extend the products using Zabbix. This chapter comprises the following...