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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.

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with Zabbix and User Management
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Zabbix and User Management
Technical requirements
Installing the Zabbix server
Setting up the Zabbix frontend
Using the Zabbix frontend
Navigating the frontend
Creating user groups
Creating your first users
Advanced user authentication with SAML
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Chapter 2: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring
Chapter 2: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring
Technical requirements
Setting up Zabbix agent 2 monitoring
Working with SNMP monitoring
Creating Zabbix simple checks and the Zabbix trapper
Working with calculated and dependent items
Creating external checks
Setting up JMX monitoring
Setting up database monitoring
Setting up HTTP agent monitoring
Using Zabbix preprocessing to alter item values
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Chapter 3: Working with Triggers and Alerts
Chapter 3: Working with Triggers and Alerts
Technical requirements
Setting up triggers
Setting up alerts
Keeping alerts effective
Customizing alerts
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Chapter 4: Building Your Own Structured Templates
Chapter 4: Building Your Own Structured Templates
Technical requirements
Creating your Zabbix template
Setting up template applications
Creating template items
Creating template triggers
Setting up different kinds of macros
Using LLD on templates
Nesting Zabbix templates
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Chapter 5: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting
Chapter 5: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting
Technical requirements
Creating graphs for accessing visual data
Creating maps to keep an eye on infrastructure
Creating dashboards for getting the right overview
Setting up Zabbix inventory
Working through Zabbix reporting
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Chapter 6: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation
Chapter 6: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation
Technical requirements
Setting up Zabbix Agent discovery
Setting up Zabbix SNMP discovery
Working with Active agent autoregistration
Using the new Windows performance counter discovery
Discovering JMX objects
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Chapter 7: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies
Chapter 7: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies
Technical requirements
Setting up a Zabbix proxy
Working with passive Zabbix proxies
Working with active Zabbix proxies
Monitoring hosts with Zabbix proxy
Using Discovery with Zabbix proxies
Monitoring your Zabbix proxies
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Chapter 8: Integrating Zabbix with External Services
Chapter 8: Integrating Zabbix with External Services
Technical requirements
Setting up Slack alerting with Zabbix
Setting up Microsoft Teams alerting with Zabbix
Using Telegram bots with Zabbix
Integrating Atlassian Opsgenie with Zabbix
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Chapter 9: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API
Chapter 9: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API
Technical requirements
Using the Zabbix API for extending functionality
Building a jumphost using the Zabbix API and Python
Creating maintenance periods as a Zabbix User
Enabling and disabling a host from Zabbix maps
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Chapter 10: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup
Chapter 10: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup
Technical requirements
Setting Zabbix maintenance periods
Backing up your Zabbix setup
Upgrading the Zabbix backend from older PHP versions to PHP 7.2 or higher
Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 10.5
Upgrading your Zabbix setup
Maintaining Zabbix performance over time
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Chapter 11: Advanced Zabbix Database Management
Chapter 11: Advanced Zabbix Database Management
Technical requirements
Setting up MySQL partitioning for your Zabbix database
Securing your Zabbix MySQL database
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Chapter 12: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration
Chapter 12: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration
Technical requirements
Setting up AWS monitoring
Setting up Microsoft Azure monitoring
Building your Zabbix Docker monitoring
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What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Zabbix and User Management, covers how to set up Zabbix, work your way through its menus, and create your first users.

Chapter 2, Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring, covers how to set up almost any type of monitoring within Zabbix.

Chapter 3, Working with Triggers and Alerts, covers how to set up triggers and get alerts from them.

Chapter 4, Building Your Own Structured Templates, covers how to build templates that are structured and will work wonders for keeping your Zabbix setup organized.

Chapter 5, Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting, covers how to visualize data in graphs, maps, and dashboards. It also covers how to use the Zabbix inventory and reporting functionality.

Chapter 6, Using Discovery for Automatic Creation, covers how to use Zabbix discovery for automatic host creation as well as items, triggers, and more with agents, SNMP, WMI, and JMX.

Chapter 7, Setting Up Zabbix Proxies, teaches how to set up Zabbix proxies correctly for use in a production environment.

Chapter 8, Integrating Zabbix with External Services, teaches how to integrate Zabbix with external services for alerting.

Chapter 9, Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and API, covers how to extend Zabbix functionality by using custom scripts and the Zabbix API.

Chapter 10, Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup, covers how to maintain a Zabbix setup and keep its performance up over time.

Chapter 11, Advanced Zabbix Database Management, teaches how to manage Zabbix databases for an advanced setup.

Chapter 12, Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration, covers how to use Zabbix in the cloud with services such as AWS, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes.

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