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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 4: Working with Triggers and Alerts

Now, what use would all of that collected data in Zabbix be without actually doing some alerting with it? Of course, we can use Zabbix to collect our data and just go over it manually, but Zabbix gets a lot more useful when we actually start sending out notifications to users. This way, we don't have to always keep an eye on our Zabbix frontend, but we can just let our triggers and alerts do the work for us, redirecting us to the frontend only when we need it.

In Zabbix 6, you will find a new trigger expressions syntax compared to Zabbix 5. This syntax has been available since Zabbix 5.4, so this is the first time we'll be working with it in an LTS release. If you've worked with Zabbix before version 6, keep in mind that you might need to get used to this new syntax.

We will learn all about setting up effective triggers with the new expression format and about alerts in the following recipes:

  • Setting up triggers...