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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)

Using Telegram bots with Zabbix

If you love automation in chat applications, you might have heard of or used Telegram messenger. Telegram has an extensive API and amazing bot features.

In this recipe, we are going to use a Telegram bot to create a Telegram group for Zabbix alerts. Let's get started.

Getting ready

Make sure you have your Zabbix server ready. You can use lar-book-centos or any Zabbix server capable of sending some alerts.

It would be useful if you have some knowledge of Telegram, but I'll be describing how to set it up step by step, even for those of you who have never used Telegram bots. Just make sure that you have the Telegram app on your computer and that your account is set up.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

  1. First, let's create a new channel in Telegram. Click on the create icon next to the search box and select New Group:

Figure 9.41 – Telegram – New...