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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)

Setting up Slack alerting with Zabbix

Slack is a widely used tool for easy text messaging, voice/video chat, and collaboration. In this recipe, we will learn how to use Zabbix Slack integration to send our Zabbix problem information to Slack so that we can gain a good overview of issues.

Getting ready

Make sure you have Slack set up. You can go to slack.com and set it up for free there. We will also need a Zabbix Server with some active problems.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

  1. Once you have set up and opened Slack, you should see the following page:

    Figure 8.1 – Slack's default page

  2. Let's create a new channel for our Zabbix notifications by clicking the +Add channels button. Then, from the dropdown that appears, click Create a new channel:

    Figure 8.2 – Slack – Create a channel window

  3. Press the green Create button. Then, on the next window, click the green Done button to add all members:

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