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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
Book Image

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)

Using Telegram bots with Zabbix

If you love automation in chat applications, you might have heard of or used Telegram Messenger. Telegram has an extensive API and amazing bot features.

In this recipe, we are going to use a Telegram bot to create a Telegram group for Zabbix alerts. Let's get started.

Getting ready

Make sure you have your Zabbix server ready. You can use lar-book-centos or any Zabbix Server capable of sending some alerts.

It would be useful if you have some knowledge of Telegram, but I'll be describing how to set it up step by step, even for those of you who have never used Telegram bots. Just make sure that you have the Telegram app on your computer and that your account is set up.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

  1. First, let's create a new channel in Telegram. Click on the Create icon next to the search box and select New Group:

    Figure 8.39 – Telegram – New Group button

  2. Add another...