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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)

Building your Zabbix Docker monitoring

Ever since the release of Zabbix 5, monitoring your Docker containers became a lot easier with the introduction of Zabbix agent 2 and plugins. Using the Zabbix agent 2 and Zabbix 6, we are able to monitor our Docker containers out of the box.

In this recipe, we are going to see how to set this up and how it works.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we require some Docker containers. We won't go over the setup of Docker containers, so make sure to do this yourself. Furthermore, we are going to need Zabbix agent 2 installed on those Docker containers. Zabbix agent does not work in relation to this recipe; Zabbix agent 2 is required.

We also need our Zabbix server to actually monitor the Docker containers. We will call our Zabbix server zbx-home.

How to do it…

Let's waste no more time and dive right into the process of monitoring your Docker setup with Zabbix:

  1. First things first, log in to the Linux CLI of your...