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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
Book Image

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)

Customizing alerts

Alerting is very useful, especially in combination with some of the tricks we've learned in this book so far to keep everything structured. But sometimes, we need a little more from our alerts than what we are already getting from Zabbix out of the box.

In this recipe, we'll do a small bit of customization to make the alerts more our own.

Getting ready

For this chapter, all we are going to need is our current Zabbix server installation.

How to do it…

To customize alerts, follow these steps:

  1. Let's create some custom severities in our Zabbix server to reflect our organization's needs. Navigate to Administration | General and select Trigger severities from the drop-down menu:

    Figure 3.29 – Drop-down menu at Administration | General

    After selecting this, we'll be taken to our next page. This window contains the default Zabbix's Trigger severities, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 3.30 –...