In this blog post, you will learn how to add a simple container remote control capability to Zabbix in order to start, stop, or restart containers from within the discovered host. You might be wondering, why spend the effort to create a host for each template? Well, that’s because we define a manual script to […]

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In this blog post, I will show you how to create a template for monitoring your Docker server with only API calls (without the Zabbix agent 2). Instead of creating a template, templated items, LLD rules, and trigger prototypes from scratch, we will adapt them from the existing template “Docker by Zabbix agent 2.” How […]

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In this blog post, I will show you how to configure Zabbix to securely gather Docker API metrics using the Zabbix HTTP agent item with certificate authentication. This guide will cover configuring the Docker API and the Zabbix server side to gather data more securely. Getting the data to Zabbix from the Docker API By […]

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In this blog post, I will show you how to detect performance issues in your Zabbix instance – in advance! You might be using Zabbix to monitor your infrastructure, devices, and applications, but are you also monitoring your own instance? It might seem unnecessary – after all, what’s there to monitor, right? Your instance just […]

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