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Saving Time with a Custom Zabbix Agent Installer

Rizqi Firmansyah — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:59:29 +0000

When managing large-scale infrastructure, the process of installing monitoring agents is often repetitive and time-consuming. Administrators must log into each server, manually run installation commands, and configure the agent to connect to the Zabbix server. To address this issue, the Zabbix Agent Deployer custom module was created. This module enables the direct installation of Zabbix […]

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Aruba Central API Monitoring with Zabbix

Tibor Volanszki — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:49:12 +0000

Aruba Central is a SaaS solution that allows you to manage your Enterprise Aruba network environment. Due to the…

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Improving throughput of serverless streaming workloads for Kafka

Anton Aleksandrov — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:02:57 +0000

Event-driven applications often need to process data in real-time. When you use AWS Lambda to process records from Apache Kafka topics, you frequently encounter two typical requirements: you need to process very high volumes of records in close to real-time, and you want your consumers to have the ability to scale rapidly to handle traffic spikes. Achieving both necessitates understanding how Lambda consumes Kafka streams, where the potential bottlenecks are, and how to optimize configurations for high throughput and best performance.

Safely Handle Configuration Drift with CloudFormation Drift-Aware Change Sets

JJ Lei — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:54:15 +0000

Introduction Is configuration drift preventing you from accessing the speed, safety, and governance benefits of AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure management? Configuration drift occurs when cloud resources are modified outside of CloudFormation, leading to a mismatch in the actual state and template definition of resources. Drift tends to accumulate from infrastructure changes that engineers make via […]

Making PaperCut NG Observable with Zabbix

Patrik Uytterhoeven — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:38:42 +0000

In most organizations, printing is an essential but often invisible service. When it works, nobody notices. When it fails,…

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Monitoring Website Changes with Zabbix Browser Item

Adi Rusmanto — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:31:21 +0000

In today’s digital era, information is an asset and most of it is obtained from websites. The ability to…

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Monitoring MDM Certificates with Lab9 Pro and Zabbix

Michael Kammer — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:15:25 +0000

Lab9 Pro is the B2B division of Lab9, Belgium’s leading Apple Premium Partner. With over 30 years of experience,…

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Monitoring a Starlink Dish with Zabbix

Alexander Petrov-Gavrilov — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:04:17 +0000

Did you realize that you can monitor a Starlink dish using just Zabbix? The idea (or rather the need)…

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Running Zabbix with MariaDB and Galera Active/Active Clustering

Nathan Liefting — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:59:56 +0000

High availability on a platform like Zabbix is a hard requirement for many users. With native high availability on…

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Building HA Zabbix with PostgreSQL and Patroni

Patrik Uytterhoeven — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:05:41 +0000

Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment demands reliability and resilience. When your monitoring solution is…

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Revolutionizing Zabbix Maintenance with Artificial Intelligence

Grover Taipe — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:01:35 +0000

Can you imagine being able to schedule maintenance in Zabbix by simply telling a program: “I need to put…

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Migrating from PRTG to Zabbix: A High-Level Guide

Patrik Uytterhoeven — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 08:01:50 +0000

For companies looking to migrate from PRTG Network Monitor to Zabbix, one of the most critical aspects is making…

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Running Zabbix with PostgreSQL and PG Auto Failover

Patrik Uytterhoeven — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:30:10 +0000

Running a monitoring platform like Zabbix in a production environment requires bulletproof availability at the database layer. Any downtime…

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When Generative AI Meets Zabbix

Cesar Caceres — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:38:10 +0000

Zabbix has been the backbone of my infrastructure for over ten years, a journey I’ve been on from version…

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Migrating Nagios to Zabbix: Lessons Learned

Nathan Liefting — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:31:02 +0000

Recently, a new customer of ours at Opensource ICT Solutions asked whether we could migrate their Nagios instance to…

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Understanding HTTP Template Authorization in AWS

evgenii.gordymov — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:52:42 +0000

Authorization in Amazon Web Services (AWS) determines what actions a user, service, or system can perform on resources. It answers…

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How to Install Zabbix on Windows with a Linux Subsystem

Alexander Petrov-Gavrilov — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:02:27 +0000

It’s a very well known fact that Zabbix can only be installed on Linux. But what if you are…

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Streamline Operational Troubleshooting with Amazon Q Developer CLI

Kirankumar Chandrashekar — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:11:59 +0000

Amazon Q Developer is the most capable generative AI–powered assistant for software development, helping developers perform complex workflows. Amazon Q Developer command-line interface (CLI) combines conversational AI with direct access to AWS services, helping you understand, build, and operate applications more effectively. The Amazon Q Developer CLI executes commands, analyzes outputs, and provides contextual recommendations […]

Accelerate development with secure access to Amazon Q Developer using PingIdentity

Sid Vantair — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:03:14 +0000

Overview Customers adopting Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI-powered coding companion, often need authentication through existing identity providers like PingIdentity. By leveraging AWS IAM Identity Center, organizations can enable their developers to access Amazon Q Developer with their existing PingIdentity credentials, streamlining authentication and removing the need for separate login procedures. Amazon Q Developer can […]

Podman Container Monitoring with Prometheus Exporter, part 2

Janis Eidaks — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:59:08 +0000

In the first part of this post, we explored how to get data with HTTP agent from the Prometheus…

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