Questions tagged [zabbix]

Zabbix is an open source monitoring software

Zabbix is an open source monitoring software. At the core sits a server daemon, written in C and gathered data can be accessed by using a PHP frontend. Zabbix provides binary agents for most platforms and may store both configuration and gathered values in MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle or IBM DB2 databases.

See the official homepage or Wikipedia entry for more information.

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LAMP monitoring by zabbix

Someone have experience with lamp monitoring ? I mean standard monitoring and slow queries monitoring for mysql, virtual hosts load as well. And alerting if something going not well. Cacti is very cool tool for this, but it has no alerts system and…
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How can I monitor remote customer Windows/Linux PC's/Servers without opening a port in their firewall?

I work for an IT service provider - we support a range of Windows and Linux servers/PC's on our customer sites. I'm looking for a way to monitor basic stuff on these devices (e.g. disk space usage, CPU utilisation, uptime etc) and collect the data…
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In Zabbix how to zero data when it doesn't come?

If a variable is expected to be fetched every minute, and it doesn't happen, the graph shows the last known value for all the timespan until the next known value. The expected behavior for me is that the graph showed no line, or a line next to the…
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Zabbix - Some of the monitored items don't refreh

I'm experiencing a strange issue with Zabbix monitoring a MySQL server. Most of the data from the server such as MySQL queries per second and MySQL uptime , Buffers memory etc. update nicely while some data like CPU iowait time (avg1) , Host local…
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Zabbix key with comma

I'm trying to create Zabbix item with key which contains commas, it results with "Too many parameters." error. I don't see any opportunity to get rid off comma in my key. I've already tried many ways of enclosing key or parts of it in quotes, double…
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Zabbix - UserParameter Powershell script item is 'not supported' - CPU per process monitoring

I'm new to zabbix and I'm trying to create custom User Parameter to Monitor CPU utility per process(Windows Machine). I have a powershell script and a user parameter, I also added a new item under zabbix -> Configuration -> hosts, but I keep getting…
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How to delay Zabbix recovery messages

I'm running Zabbix 4.0 installed on CentOS 7. There is a need to set a delay on sending recovery messages so that if a problem is resolved then Zabbix should wait for some time before sending the recovery message to avoid the situation of trigger…
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SELinux - Zabbix server can't read conf file

I have installed zabbix server on red Hat 7.4 server with SELinux policy in Enforcing mode. If I launch Zabbix-server (3.4.11), I have theses errors : /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log Jul 25 16:51:38 master-01 systemd: zabbix-server.service never…
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Zabbix Agent unable to read /var/log/messages

So I am trying to monitor the logs of a VM running Centos 7. Specifically the one giving problems is /var/log/messages. I have changed both the group ownership of the file ( made the pertaining change in logrotate.conf ) and manually on the already…
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Give zabbix agent read permissions on root log files

I'm running zabbix-agent on a centos 7 machine under user/group zabbix. I want to give the zabbix user access to a couple of log files in folders under: /var/log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/ What is the best way to give that user access to those files.…
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Zabbix Database growing too large (PostgreSQL backend)

We are currently running Zabbix 3.0 LTS with a PostgreSQL database on version 9.5.6 running on Ubuntu 16.04. We're running into an issue where our Zabbix database just continuously keeps growing. We're not too sure what is causing the issue, but so…
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Zabbix Trigger Hysteresis - Incorrect trigger expression

I am trying to use the following expressions: ({TRIGGER.VALUE}=0&{Template App Zabbix Agent:agent.ping.nodata(5m)}=1) | ({TRIGGER.VALUE}=1&{Template App Zabbix Agent:agent.ping.min(20m)}=1) But i get the following error: Incorrect trigger…
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Zabbix does not run custom alertscript

I'm running Debian 8 and Zabbix 3.2. I've made a custom alert script, which runs fine when I run in terminal: /bin/sh /usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts/send_sms.sh 4483222740 Hello This send a SMS via Twilio, works fine. In my zabbix_server.conf I…
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Configure: error: Curl library not found on centos 7

I want to install zabbix 2.4.5, but when I type: ./configure --enable-server --enable-agent --with-mysql --enable-ipv6 --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl --with-libxml2 I get some problem: Configure: error: Curl library not found [root@pc-bello…
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Lack of free swap space on linux Zabbix server

I have been getting this Lack of free swap space on Zabbix server on my aws instance via zabbix monitoring. I am thinking of creating say 2 Gb of swap space. Do I risk loosing or interfering with anything since it is a live server (being used). I…
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