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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)

Creating dashboards for getting the right overview

Now that we've created some graphs and a map, let's continue on by not only visualizing our data but also getting the visualization in an overview. We're going to create a dashboard for our Linux-monitored hosts.

Getting ready

Make sure you followed the previous two recipes and that you have your Zabbix server ready. We'll be using our SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipe, as well as our item, triggers, and map.

How to do it…

  1. Navigate to Monitoring | Dashboards and click All dashboards in the left corner of the page.
  2. Now, click the Create dashboard button in the top-right corner and fill in your dashboard name, like this:

    Figure 5.24 – Create dashboard window

    Tip

    Keeping Zabbix elements such as maps and dashboards owned under the Zabbix Admin user is a great idea. This way, they aren't dependent on a single user who might leave your environment at a later stage. The...