Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook: Explore the new features of Zabbix 6 for designing, building, and maintaining your Zabbix setup

by Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel, Dmitry Lambert (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803242842
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	03/17/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	506
File size:	23 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Nathan Liefting, also known as Larcorba, is an IT consultant, trainer, and content creator (artist) with over 6 years of professional experience in IT. His experience ranges from managing networks running EVPN/VXLAN to Linux environments and programming. Nathan began working with Zabbix in 2016 when Zabbix 2 was still in use and Zabbix 3 had just been released. He currently works for Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands as a Zabbix trainer and consultant, designing and building professional Zabbix environments and Zabbix components for some of the biggest companies worldwide.
Brian van Baekel discovered the power of Zabbix early in his career as a network engineer. Since then, he has been working with Zabbix in various large environments, earning his official Zabbix Certified Trainer certification in early 2017. In 2018, Brian founded Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands and Opensource ICT Solutions LLC in the US, focusing on building Zabbix environments globally. In 2021, the business expanded further with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom, dedicated entirely to the Zabbix product. All companies provide support, training, and consultancy services, ensuring Brian works with the Zabbix product around the clock. Fun fact: Even his cat is named Zabbix.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Installing Zabbix and Getting Started Using the Frontend
2. Getting Things Ready with Zabbix User Management
3. Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring
4. Working with Triggers and Alerts
5. Building Your Own Structured Templates
6. Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting
7. Using Discovery for Automatic Creation
8. Setting Up Zabbix Proxies
9. Integrating Zabbix with External Services
10. Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API
11. Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup
12. Advanced Zabbix Database Management
13. Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration