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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)

Integrating Atlassian Opsgenie with Zabbix

Atlassian Opsgenie is so much more than just another integration service for receiving notifications. Opsgenie offers us a call system, an SMS system, iOS and Android apps, two-way acknowledgments, and even an on-call schedule.

I think Opsgenie is the best tool for replacing old-school call and SMS systems and fully integrating them with Zabbix. So, let's get started with Opsgenie and see how we can get this amazing tool set up.

Getting ready

Ensure that your Zabbix server is ready. I'll be using the lar-book-centos server, but any Zabbix server ready to send problems should work.

You are also going to need an Atlassian Opsgenie account with Opsgenie ready to go.

I won't show you how to create accounts, but we'll start this recipe with Opsgenie ready to go.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

  1. Let's start by logging into our Atlassian Opsgenie setup and going...