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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel

Overview of this book

This updated second edition of the Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook brings you new recipes, updated with Zabbix 6 functionality. You'll learn how to set up Zabbix with built-in high availability, use the improved Business Service Monitoring, set up automatic reporting, and create advanced triggers. Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 6 to monitor effectively the performance of devices and applications over the network. You'll start by working your way through the installation and most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. This Zabbix book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. Next, you'll 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 Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Maintaining Zabbix performance over time

It's important to make sure that your Zabbix setup keeps performing well over time. There are several key components that are important to keep your Zabbix setup performing optimally. Let's see how to work on some of these components and keep your Zabbix setup running smoothly.

Getting ready

All we are going to need for this recipe is a Zabbix 6 server configured with either a MySQL or PostgreSQL database backend.

How to do it…

We will go through three of the main problems people face whilst maintaining Zabbix server performance. First things first, let's look at the Zabbix processes and how to edit them.

Zabbix processes

A regular problem people face is a Zabbix process being too busy. Let's log in to our Zabbix frontend and check out how this problem might look.

First, let's start by logging in to our Zabbix server frontend and check out some messages:

  1. When we navigate to Monitoring...