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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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Understanding Zabbix Triggers

I have zabbix set with an item to monitor a log file on a zabbix client: log["/var/log/program_name/client.log","ERROR:","UTF-8",100] And a trigger to determine when that log file get's more…
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Zabbix "Application" monitoring - How do I detect a "hung" frozen application

I have Zabbix Server on Ubuntu working... I have an Agent install on my Windows server. Template_Windows works wonders and gives me all sorts of stats that I'm happy to play with... The problem is that I'm trying to monitor an application. Not a…
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MySQL DB causing high IO running Zabbix server

My VPS host is complaining that I am using by far the highest IO on the host. Im running a Zabbix monitoring server with a MySQL innodb database. The VPS has 512MB ram. I dont understand why the mysqltuner.pl script is recommending…
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SQlite and zabbix

Has anyone ever used sqlite as the only database for their zabbix server? I'll be monitoring a uplink ports on a couple hundred switches and a small number of other services such as radius or http servers. This will be on an oldish opteron server…
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How should I implement an email circuit test?

I want a high-level test that ensures that both incoming and outgoing email services are operating normally. I've achieved this by writing a python script which does this: Send a message with a unique hash through my mail server to…
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How to query custom performance counters using Zabbix agent?

I was thinking of instead sending data to Zabbix Trapper I could send to Windows Performance monitor and then capture it using Zabbix Agent. Is it possible? How?
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Zabbix proxy under error "failed to update local proxy configuration copy"

This morning I've installed a Zabbix Proxy on an host and I've seen this message in the error log /var/log/zabbix-proxy/zabbix_proxy.log using the default Template Linux: received configuration data from server at "", datalen 10911 failed…
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Zabbix low-level discovery - CPU usage per process - two items with identical keys

I'm trying to use Zabbix for monitoring CPU usage by different processes on Windows Server. Processes to monitor are not determined upfront. I want to use LLD to monitor top 3 CPU demanding processes. Currently I've created a discovery rule that…
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False alarm on zabbix trigger in web scenario

I have a website whose running on Apache Server. I want recieve a notification every time when a web site falling down.I created a trigger: {Zabbix server:web.test.fail[http:example.com].sum(#6)}>0 But website running not well and i receive a error…
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Zabbix - Value "1" of type "string" is not suitable for value type "Numeric (unsigned)"

I get this error when I changed the custom command from an application that prints to STDOUT to shell script that runs curl and produces the same output to STDOUT. What's going on here?
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One process takes all server resources (iowait?)

I have multiple processes running simultaneously on the same box under CentOS 7 (each one on behalf of the separate Linux user). I use Zabbix for monitoring. Sometimes the following pattern appears on CPU utilization graph. If you zoom in, then…
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How to check that a process is running under specific Windows user with Zabbix

I wonder if it's possible to monitor if a Windows application is running under specific user or not. Let's say there are 2 Win users (accounts) on the server: User 1 has application.exe running all the time and I don't need to monitor it as it's…
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Zabbix trigger won't work for count function

I'm trying to throw an alert if server is dropping below threshold for free memory for x number of times in a day. {my_template:vm.memory.size[free].count(1m,5G,lt,1d)}>5 {my_template:vm.memory.size[free].count(1m,5368709120,lt,1d)}>5 I've also…
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Public facing Zabbix Server

I'm running Zabbix server 4.0.4 on Debian 4.19.12-1. Right now to access my Zabbix server I have an nginx proxy_pass for the front end which is public facing. I can access it with mydomain.com/zabbix. I don't like that this is public facing, and I'd…
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Find an IP that is known to be on a DNSBL

I am configuring Zabbix to check my IPs against several DNSBLs. My IPs are currently not blacklisted. My monitoring needs to be tested, to verify that it will alert properly if one of my IPs does become blacklisted. How can I obtain, for testing,…
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