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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
Book Image

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)

Chapter 12: Advanced Zabbix Database Management

Whether you've been using Zabbix for a while or you are looking toward setting up your first production instance, database management is important right from the start. A lot of the time, people set up their Zabbix database and don't know yet that it will be a big database. The Zabbix housekeeper just can't keep up when your database grows beyond a certain size and that's where we need to look toward different options.

In this chapter, we'll look into keeping our Zabbix database from using up 100% disk space when the Zabbix housekeeper is not keeping up. For MySQL users, we'll look into using database partitioning to keep our database in check. For PostgreSQL users, we'll look toward the brand-new TimescaleDB support. Last but not least, we'll also check out how to secure our connection between the Zabbix server and database.

We'll do all this in the following recipes:

  • Setting...