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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)

Working through Zabbix reporting

Zabbix reporting got some well-deserved love from Zabbix development, especially with regard to getting reports out of the system and improving the audit log. First, let's take a look at some powerful features to show you exactly what's going on with your statistics right from the Zabbix frontend. Then, in the next recipe, we will take a look at how to create automatic PDF reports, a new and much-anticipated feature.

Getting ready

For this recipe, all you'll need is the Zabbix frontend and a monitored host. I'll be using 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 6.55 – Reports | System information...