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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)

Setting up HTTP agent monitoring

With the Zabbix HTTP agent, we can monitor a web page or API by retrieving data from it. For instance, if there's a counter on a web page and we want to keep an eye on that counter value, we can do so with the Zabbix HTTP monitor.

Getting ready

We are going to need a web page to monitor and we will need our Zabbix server. For your convenience, we've added a page to our own website to retrieve a value from. Here's the page: https://oicts.com/book-page/.

Please also note that your Zabbix server will need an active internet connection for this recipe.

How to do it…

Let's poll the special web page we've created for you showing a visitor count that's currently configured on it. This is a real counter for the number of times (unique) visitors have opened the URL:

  1. Navigate to your Zabbix frontend and navigate to Configuration | Hosts, then click the host called lar-book-agent_simple.
  2. Now go to...