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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)

Setting up Microsoft Teams alerting with Zabbix

At the time of writing this book, I'm living in The Netherlands and in the COVID-19 crisis. A lot of IT companies have been requested to make their employees work from home. Due to this, there's been a rise in the use of Microsoft Teams and applications like it. Suddenly, a lot of companies have started using Microsoft Teams and others to make working from home and collaboration easier.

Let's learn how we can make working with Microsoft Teams even better by integrating our Zabbix alerting into it.

Getting ready

We will need our Zabbix Server to be able to create some problems for us. For this, you can use lar-book-centos from our previous chapters or any Zabbix Server that you prefer.

We will also need general Microsoft Teams knowledge and, of course, Microsoft Teams itself set up and ready to go.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

  1. Let's start by opening our Microsoft...