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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)

Chapter 9: Integrating Zabbix with External Services

In this chapter, we are going to set up some of the useful external service integrations that Zabbix has to offer. We can use these external services to notify our Zabbix users of ongoing problems.

We will start by learning how to set up in-company chat applications such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Then, we will learn how to use a personal chat application such as Telegram before learning how to integrate Atlassian Opsgenie for even more extensive alerting.

Once you've completed these recipes, you will be able to effectively integrate certain services with Zabbix. This is a good starting point for working with external services in general and the easiest way to set up Slack, Teams, Opsgenie, and Telegram.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Setting up Slack alerting with Zabbix
  • Setting up Microsoft Teams alerting with Zabbix
  • Using Telegram bots with Zabbix
  • Integrating Atlassian...