This is the code repository for Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook, published by Packt.
Zabbix 5 Network Monitoring Cookbook, Published by Packt
Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its variety of powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 5 for effectively monitoring the performance of devices and applications over networks.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Explore the different types of monitoring available in Zabbix 5
- Find out how to build your own Zabbix templates
- Use Zabbix proxies for effective load balancing/scaling
- Work with custom integrations and the Zabbix API
- Set up triggers and alerting with Zabbix 5 Maintain your Zabbix setup for scaling, backups, and upgrades Discover how to perform advanced Zabbix database management Monitor cloud-based products such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Docker
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
# MariaDB Server
# To use a different major version of the server, or to pin to
a specific minor version, change URI below.
deb [arch=amd64] http://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb-10.5/repo/ubuntu xenial main
Following is what you need for this book: This book is for IT engineers who want to get started with Zabbix and anyone with an intermediate understanding of Zabbix looking to extend their knowledge. Although not necessary, prior experience with Zabbix will help you to make the most of this book.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-12).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-12 | Zabbix 5 | Linux (Any) |
| 1-12 | Python 3 | Linux (Any) |
| 1-12 | MySQL | Linux (Any) |
| 1-12 | PostgreSQL | Linux (Any) |
| 1-12 | Apache | Linux (Any) |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
- Page 25 (Paragraph 3, line 8):
dpkg -i zabbix-release_4.5-1+focal_all.debshould bedpkg -i zabbix-release_5.0-1+focal_all.deb
Nathan Liefting also known as Larcorba, is an IT consultant, trainer, and content creator (artist). He has more than 6 years of professional experience in IT. His experience ranges from managing networks running EVPN/VXLAN to Linux environments and programming. Nathan started working with Zabbix in 2016, when it was still at Zabbix 2 and Zabbix 3 was just released.He now 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 around the world.
Brian van Baekel quickly discovered how powerful Zabbix is during his career as a network engineer. Ever since, he has been working with Zabbix in various (large) environments, leading to 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 USA. Both companies primarily focus on building Zabbix environments all over the world. Fun fact: even his cat is named "Zabbix".