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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)

Setting up Slack alerting with Zabbix

Slack is a widely used tool for easy text messaging, voice/video chat, and collaboration. In this recipe, we will learn how to use Zabbix Slack integration to send our Zabbix problem information to Slack so that we can gain a good overview of issues.

Getting ready

Make sure you have Slack set up. You can go to https://slack.com/intl/en-in/ and set it up for free there. We will also need a Zabbix server with some active problems.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

  1. Once you have set up and opened Slack, you should see the following page:

Figure 9.1 – Slack's default page

  1. Let's create a new channel for our Zabbix notifications by clicking the +Add channels button. Then, from the dropdown that appears, click Create a new channel:

Figure 9.2 – Slack – Create a channel window

  1. Click the green Create button...