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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 8: Integrating Zabbix with External Services

In this chapter, we are going to set up some of the useful external service integrations that Zabbix has to offer. We can use these external services to notify our Zabbix users of ongoing problems.

We will start by learning how to set up in-company chat applications such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Then, we will learn how to use a personal chat application such as Telegram before learning how to integrate Atlassian Opsgenie for even more extensive alerting.

Once you've completed these recipes, you will be able to effectively integrate certain services with Zabbix. This is a good starting point for working with external services in general and the easiest way to set up Slack, Teams, Opsgenie, and Telegram.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Setting up Slack alerting with Zabbix
  • Setting up Microsoft Teams alerting with Zabbix
  • Using Telegram bots with Zabbix
  • Integrating Atlassian...