Discover practical recipes to help you efficiently monitor enterprise IT infrastructure for Microsoft Windows, Linux, networking, and more

Key Features

• Find out how you can leverage some of the most exciting features of Zabbix 7
• Discover easy-to-follow, practical solutions for common problems in network monitoring with Zabbix
• Perform professional IT infrastructure and application monitoring across multiple platforms

Book Description

Realize the full potential of Zabbix 7 with this updated third edition of the Zabbix 7 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook. Packed with new recipes and updated with the latest Zabbix functionalities, this guide covers everything you need, whether you’re setting up Zabbix with built-in (proxy) high availability, using LDAP JIT user provisioning, implementing low-level host discovery, or creating advanced triggers.

This hands-on guide offers easy-to-follow recipes to use Zabbix 7 to monitor the performance of devices and applications across your network. You'll start by learning how to install Zabbix and examine its most prominent features, ensuring you make the right design choices to build a scalable and easily manageable environment. Each recipe is crafted to help you build items and triggers for different types of monitoring, create templates, and use Zabbix proxies. You'll also get to grips with using the Zabbix API for customization and managing your Zabbix server and database. 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 have expert insights into using Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.

What you will learn

• Implement a high-availability Zabbix setup for both server and proxies
• Build templates and explore various monitoring types available in Zabbix 7
• Use Zabbix proxies to scale your environment effectively
• Work with custom integrations and the Zabbix API
• Set up advanced triggers and alerting
• Maintain your Zabbix setup for scaling, backups, and upgrades
• Perform advanced Zabbix database management
• Monitor cloud-based products such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Docker

Who this book is for

This book is for network and IT engineers who want to get started with Zabbix as well as those with an intermediate-level understanding of Zabbix looking to extend their knowledge. While prior experience with Zabbix is not a prerequisite, it will help you make the most of this book.

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, Reporting and Business service monitoring
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 Zabbix API
11. Maintaining your Zabbix setup
12. Advanced Zabbix database management
13. Bringing Zabbix to the cloud with Zabbix cloud integration

Review

“This book fills the gap between the official documentationand real-life situations that require specific solutions, and it does so perfectly. Especially valuable is its coverage of the new functionality in Zabbix 7.0 LTS, the latest release of Zabbix to date!

This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn specific techniques for solving particular monitoring and observability tasks. How great it is to have solutions to many challenges you may encounter at your fingertips!”

Alexei Vladishev, Creator of Zabbix

“A great resource for anyone looking to get hands-on with Zabbix. This book is packed with practical tutorials that make it easy to tackle real-world monitoring challenges. Nathan and Brian keep it straightforward with step-by-step instructions and just the right amount of detail to keep you moving. Whether you’re a Zabbix beginner or a user with experience, you’ll find plenty of insights and interesting tricks here to make your setup smarter and more efficient.

What sets this book apart is its ability to dive deep without getting overly complex. The tutorials are not just how-to's but include valuable context that helps you understand why each step is done a certain way. From configuring templates to setting up advanced triggers, it covers a wide range of topics that will save you tons of time and experimentation.”

Dmitry Lambert, Head of Product at Zabbix



About the Authors

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.