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
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
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
- Installing Zabbix and getting started using the frontend
- Getting things ready with Zabbix user management
- Setting up Zabbix monitoring
- Working with triggers and alerts
- Building your own structured templates
- Visualizing data, Inventory, Reporting and Business service monitoring
- Using discovery for automatic creation
- Setting up Zabbix proxies
- Integrating Zabbix with External services
- Extending Zabbix functionality with custom scripts and Zabbix API
- Maintaining your Zabbix setup
- Advanced Zabbix database management
- Bringing Zabbix to the cloud with Zabbix cloud integration
