Statistical hosts are the use of statistics on groups of hosts. This allows a user to see what percent of a group of hosts are experiencing the same issue. It is very useful when monitoring fleets of devices such as wireless access points within a building or redundant nodes. I created 10 VMs and added […]
Category: Infrastructure
Send Notifications from Zabbix to Slack
It’s surprisingly easy to setup Zabbix to send notifications to Slack including customizing which notifications go to which Slack channels and what to include on the Slack message. There is official documentation for Zabbix 4.4 available here. The official documentation is very lacking so I’m going to walk through setup start to finish and test […]
Monitoring MySQL with Zabbix
I ran into quite a few issues with setting up a Zabbix agent for Linux to monitor the server and the MySQL database on the machine. It seems that MySQL monitoring in Zabbix has been slightly modified over the years and little change documentation was made to keep up with it. I’m going to go […]