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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)

Maintaining Zabbix performance over time

It's important to make sure that your Zabbix setup keeps performing well over time. There are several key components that are important to keep your Zabbix setup performing optimally over time. Let's see how to work on some of these components and keep your Zabbix setup running smoothly.

Getting ready

All we are going to need for this recipe is a Zabbix 5 server configured with either a MySQL or PostgreSQL database backend.

How to do it

We will go through three of the main problems people face whilst maintaining Zabbix server performance. First things first, let's look at the Zabbix processes and how to edit them.

Zabbix processes

A regular problem people face is a Zabbix process being too busy. Let's log in to our Zabbix frontend and check out how this problem might look.

First, let's start by logging in to our Zabbix server frontend and check out some messages:

  1. When we navigate to Monitoring...