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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)

Integrating Atlassian Opsgenie with Zabbix

Atlassian Opsgenie is so much more than just another integration service for receiving notifications. Opsgenie offers us a call system, an SMS system, iOS and android apps, two-way acknowledgements, and even an on-call schedule.3

I think Opsgenie is the best tool for replacing old-school call and SMS systems and fully integrating them with Zabbix. So, let's get started with Opsgenie and see how we can get this amazing tool set up.

Getting ready

Ensure that your Zabbix server is ready. I'll be using the lar-book-centos server, but any Zabbix Server ready to send problems should work.

You are also going to need an Atlassian Opsgenie account with Opsgenie ready to go. I won't show you how to create accounts, but we'll start this recipe with Opsgenie ready to go.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

  1. Let's start by logging into our Atlassian Opsgenie setup and going...