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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)

Setting up Microsoft Azure monitoring

Microsoft Azure Cloud is a big player in the cloud market these days and it's important to keep an eye on this infrastructure as much as when it is your own hardware. In this recipe, we are going to discover how to monitor Azure instances with our Zabbix setup.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to need our Azure Cloud with an Azure DB instance in it already. The recipe does not cover how to set up an Azure DB instance, so make sure to have this in advance. We will also need our Zabbix server, which we'll call zbx-home in this recipe.

We have split up the Azure CLI installation aspect into RHEL-based and Debian-based systems. Make sure to use the guide that is appropriate for you.

Then, last but not least, we will require some templates and hosts, which we can import. We can download the XML files here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Zabbix-5-Network-Monitoring-Cookbook/tree/master/chapter12

How to do it…...