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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)

Setting up Microsoft Azure monitoring

The Microsoft Azure cloud is a big player in the cloud market these days and it's important to keep an eye on this infrastructure as much as you would your own hardware. In this recipe, we are going to discover how to monitor Azure instances with our Zabbix setup.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to need our Azure cloud with an Azure DB instance in it already. The recipe does not cover how to set up an Azure DB instance, so make sure to have this in advance. We will also need our Zabbix server, which we'll call zbx-home in this recipe.

We have split up the Azure CLI installation aspect into RHEL-based and Ubuntu systems. Make sure to use the guide that is appropriate for you.

Then, last but not least, we will require some templates and hosts, which we can import. We can download the XML files here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Zabbix-6-IT-Infrastructure-Monitoring-Cookbook/tree/main/chapter13.

How to do...