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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)

Chapter 5: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting

When working with Zabbix, it is important that collected data is put to good use. After all, the data is of no use if we do not have a place to easily access it. Zabbix already puts our data to good use with the Latest data page and with problems created from triggers, but we can also put our data to good use by building some stuff ourselves, such as graphs, maps, and inventory, and by using reporting.

After working through these recipes, you'll be able to set up the most important parts of Zabbix data visualization. You'll also be able to make good use of your inventory and reporting systems, to get the most out of their useful features.

In this chapter, we'll go over these subjects to show you how to achieve good results in these recipes:

  • Creating graphs for accessing visual data
  • Creating maps to keep an eye on infrastructure
  • Creating dashboards for getting the right overview
  • Setting up...