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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)

Working through Zabbix reporting

Zabbix reporting is another feature that could use some love, especially on the part of actually getting reports out of the system. But it's a powerful feature to show you exactly what's going on with your statistics—something your customers might love, for instance.

Getting ready

For this recipe, all you'll need is the Zabbix frontend and the SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipes.

How to do it…

There isn't anything to configure really, as reporting is present in Zabbix from the start. So, let's dive into what each page of reporting offers us.

System information

If you navigate to Reports | System information, you will find the following table:

Figure 5.36 – Reports | System information page

You might have seen this table before, as it is also configurable as a dashboard widget. This page gives us all of the quick information we need about our Zabbix server...