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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel

Overview of this book

This updated second edition of the Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook brings you new recipes, updated with Zabbix 6 functionality. You'll learn how to set up Zabbix with built-in high availability, use the improved Business Service Monitoring, set up automatic reporting, and create advanced triggers. Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 6 to monitor effectively the performance of devices and applications over the network. You'll start by working your way through the installation and most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. This Zabbix book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. Next, you'll 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 Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Navigating the frontend

Navigating the Zabbix frontend is easier than it looks at first glance, especially with some of the amazing changes made to the UI starting from 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...