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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)

Keeping alerts effective

It's important to keep our alerts effective to make sure we are neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed by notifications. To do this, we will change our trigger and the Email media type to reflect just what we want to see.

Getting ready

We will be using Trigger 1 from the first recipe and the default email media type in Zabbix.

Furthermore, of course, we'll also be using our Zabbix server.

How to do it…

To create effective alerts, let's follow these steps:

  1. Let's get started on Trigger 1, which we created in this chapter's Setting up triggers recipe. Navigate to our lar-agent-simple host by going to Configuration | Hosts and clicking Trigger for the host.
  2. Here, sometimes people use a different trigger name like the one we see below:

Figure 4.37 – Trigger 1 from the previous recipe

Even when you've used the macro {HOST.NAME} in the trigger, it's quite simple...