Zabbix 8hours

One of the most important features in Zabbix is user management which allows you to control who has access to different aspects of the system. Zabbix offers a variety of authentication methods that provide flexibility for organizations with different security requirements.

Installing the Zabbix server

Setting up the Zabbix frontend

Using the Zabbix frontend

Navigating the frontend

Creating user groups

Creating your first users

Advanced user authentication with SAML

45min.

To set up Zabbix, you need to install the Zabbix software on the machine that will act as your Zabbix server. You can also choose to run it in a virtual environment or install it on a remote machine that is connected to your network.

Setting up Zabbix agent 2 monitoring

Working with SNMP monitoring

Creating Zabbix simple checks and the Zabbix trapper

Working with calculated and dependent items

Creating external checks

Setting up JMX monitoring

Setting up database monitoring

Setting up HTTP agent monitoring

Using Zabbix preprocessing to alter item values

45min.

The following sections will provide a detailed explanation of the different types of alerts and triggers, as well as how to set them up.

Setting up triggers

Setting up alerts

Keeping alerts effective

Customizing alerts

45min.

Structured Templates are a project template designed to meet the needs of many types of monitorng and alerts.

Creating your Zabbix template

Setting up template applications

Creating template items

Creating template triggers

Setting up different kinds of macros

Using LLD on templates

Nesting Zabbix templates

45min.

Graphs in Zabbix are a powerful tool, to show what’s going on with your collected data. You might have already found some graphs by using the Latest data page, but we can also create our own predefined graphs.

Creating graphs for accessing visual data

Creating maps to keep an eye on infrastructure

Creating dashboards for getting the right overview

Setting up Zabbix inventory

Working through Zabbix reporting

45min.

This discovery is a useful and important feature of Zabbix because it can be used to automatically create and configure devices.

Setting up Zabbix Agent discovery

Setting up Zabbix SNMP discovery

Working with Active agent autoregistration

Using the new Windows performance counter discovery

Discovering JMX objects

45min.

Zabbix proxies are used to reduce the load on your monitoring server, they are also useful for distributing monitoring across multiple servers.

Setting up a Zabbix proxy

Working with passive Zabbix proxies

Working with active Zabbix proxies

Monitoring hosts with Zabbix proxy

Using Discovery with Zabbix proxies

Monitoring your Zabbix proxies

45min.

One of the most common integrations is to integrate Zabbix with external services such as Slack.

Setting up Slack alerting with Zabbix

Setting up Microsoft Teams alerting with Zabbix

Using Telegram bots with Zabbix

Integrating Atlassian Opsgenie with Zabbix

45min.

The Zabbix API allows you to extend the functionality of Zabbix by creating custom scripts and agents with various programming languages. API scripts can be written in any language supported by cURL library.

Using the Zabbix API for extending functionality

Building a jumphost using the Zabbix API and Python

Creating maintenance periods as a Zabbix User

Enabling and disabling a host from Zabbix maps

45min.

Maintaining your Zabbix setup is of paramount importance. If you want to continue to enjoy the Zabbix monitoring software, it’s important to make sure you stay on top of security updates.

Setting Zabbix maintenance periods

Backing up your Zabbix setup

Upgrading the Zabbix backend from older PHP versions to PHP 7.2 or higher

Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 10.5

Upgrading your Zabbix setup

Maintaining Zabbix performance over time

45min.

The Zabbix database management system is used to store all the collected data and to distribute the load across multiple servers. This section will look at how we can manage our Zabbix databases and keep them running smoothly.

Setting up MySQL partitioning for your Zabbix database

Using the new PostgreSQL TimescaleDB functionality

Securing your Zabbix MySQL database

45min.

In this section, we cover how to set up Zabbix on a cloud environment using AWS EC2 for a Linux-based infrastructure..

Setting up AWS monitoring

Setting up Microsoft Azure monitoring

Building your Zabbix Docker monitoring

45min.