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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)

Creating dashboards to get the right overview

Now that we've created some graphs and a map, let's continue on by not only visualizing our data but also getting the visualization in an overview. We're going to create a dashboard for our Linux-monitored hosts.

Getting ready

Make sure you followed the previous two recipes and that you have your Zabbix server ready. We'll be using our SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipe, as well as our item, triggers, and map.

How to do it…

  1. Navigate to Monitoring | Dashboards and click All dashboards in the left corner of the page.
  2. Now, click the Create dashboard button in the top-right corner and fill in your dashboard name, like this:

Figure 6.27 – Create dashboard window

Tip

Keeping Zabbix elements such as maps and dashboards owned by the Zabbix Admin user is a great idea. This way, they aren't dependent on a single user who might leave your environment...