This article reviews five popular open‑source monitoring solutions—Cacti, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana—highlighting their core architectures, key features, strengths, and limitations to help IT professionals select the most suitable tool for their environment.
This article reviews and contrasts five popular open‑source monitoring solutions—Cacti, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana—highlighting their architectures, key features, strengths, and typical use‑cases to help IT teams select the right tool for their environment.
Learn step-by-step how to create a custom Zabbix Agent2 plugin in Go that retrieves HTTPS certificate expiration dates, compile and install the plugin, configure Zabbix, and set up monitoring items and alerts to proactively avoid service disruptions caused by expired certificates.
This article provides an in‑depth overview of monitoring, covering its purpose, key objectives, practical methods, core processes, a detailed comparison of popular monitoring tools such as Zabbix and Prometheus, and best‑practice recommendations for building scalable, reliable, and intelligent monitoring platforms.
This guide explains three ways to monitor Ceph distributed storage using Zabbix—Agent2 with the RESTful module, Zabbix Sender, and custom scripts—providing step‑by‑step commands, configuration tips, and troubleshooting notes for reliable operations.
This article compares five widely used operations monitoring tools—Cacti, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana—detailing their architectures, key features, strengths, and limitations to help you select the most suitable solution for comprehensive IT service availability.
This guide shows how to retrieve the Kubernetes API endpoint, generate an authentication token, deploy a Python script, configure Zabbix host and external check, and manually trigger the monitoring to collect cluster metrics via Zabbix Sender.
This guide explains how to use Ansible to automatically install and configure Zabbix‑agent on a large number of Linux servers, covering inventory setup, a deployment script, a playbook, execution commands, and verification of the agent listening on port 10050.
This technical guide walks through the fundamentals of Prometheus, compares it with Zabbix, demonstrates high‑availability setups, remote storage with InfluxDB, multi‑instance Redis monitoring, and Grafana integration, providing concrete configuration examples and best‑practice recommendations for reliable ops monitoring.
This tutorial walks you through using Python's requests library and Zabbix Sender to retrieve Kubernetes API metrics, covering API endpoint discovery, token generation, script deployment, host configuration, and manual trigger of checks to visualize the data.
This article explains how to use Zabbix Agent2 to monitor Redis, covering the plugin's architecture, configuration priority, methods for retrieving INFO, CONFIG, health status, and slow‑query logs, as well as practical steps to set up the Redis template in Zabbix.
This comprehensive guide explains what NoSQL is, contrasts non‑relational and relational databases, outlines the main representatives of each, dives deep into MongoDB architecture, features, use‑cases and limitations, and also covers MySQL fundamentals, replication, backup, and common monitoring tools like Prometheus and Zabbix.
This guide walks through the inner workings of Zabbix Agent2’s Docker monitoring plugin, detailing how it communicates via the Docker API, the key configuration files, the query mechanism, and how to apply the provided templates to automatically discover and display container and image metrics.
This article systematically explains monitoring fundamentals, the seven core functions of a monitoring system, proper usage practices, common monitoring objects and metrics, the basic data flow, and provides detailed comparisons of three popular open‑source solutions—Zabbix, Open‑Falcon, and Prometheus—to guide informed selection decisions.
This article introduces eleven robust server monitoring solutions, explaining their key features and benefits to help IT professionals ensure server availability, performance, and rapid issue resolution across diverse environments.
A comprehensive Q&A with SRE experts explores how Zabbix and Prometheus compare across scalability, storage, alert handling, intelligent monitoring, dashboard design, automation, migration strategies, and performance‑cost trade‑offs for modern infrastructure.
This guide explains the MQTT protocol, shows how to install and run a Mosquitto broker on CentOS, and demonstrates how to collect MQTT messages with a custom Zabbix Agent2 plugin for real‑time monitoring in Zabbix.
This tutorial walks you through disabling SELinux and the firewall, adding Zabbix and EPEL repositories, installing Zabbix server, web, and database components, configuring files, securing MariaDB, starting services, and completing the web‑based setup to get a fully functional monitoring system.
This guide details recommended MySQL versions for Zabbix, proper grant statements for read/write and read‑only users, essential MySQL configuration tweaks, SQL techniques for item and function updates, read‑write splitting, upgrade procedures, backup strategies, and comprehensive partition maintenance scripts to improve performance and manage data growth.
This guide walks you through creating Zabbix auto‑discovery scripts to extract all Redis INFO parameters, configuring custom keys, setting permissions, and building a complete Redis monitoring template with step‑by‑step screenshots.
This guide explains why Zabbix data transmission in mixed‑cloud environments requires encryption, describes the TLS/PSK and certificate‑based security options supported since Zabbix 3.0, outlines their limitations, lists compatible encryption libraries, and provides step‑by‑step configuration commands for both GnuTLS and OpenSSL.
This guide shows how to route Zabbix alarm messages through a Kafka cluster and then deliver them to Enterprise WeChat using Python scripts, covering host configuration, Kafka/Zookeeper startup, topic creation, alert‑sending scripts, and Zabbix action setup.
This comprehensive guide explains why monitoring is essential for operations, outlines monitoring goals and methods, reviews a wide range of open‑source tools, details a Zabbix‑based workflow, enumerates key metrics across hardware, system, application, network, security and business layers, and offers practical alerting and interview tips.
This article provides a comprehensive, ordered procedure for upgrading a Zabbix 4.0 monitoring system to version 5.0 using blue‑green deployment, backing up configurations, updating repositories, applying MySQL patches, and then migrating the associated Elasticsearch cluster from 6.1 to 7.x, including all necessary command‑line steps, configuration edits, and post‑upgrade validation.
This article provides an extensive overview of monitoring in operations, covering its objectives, methods, core concepts, a wide range of open‑source and commercial tools, detailed metric categories, alerting mechanisms, interview tips, and recommendations for building a robust, scalable monitoring ecosystem.
Learn how to enable Zabbix’s VMware monitoring by configuring collectors, editing the server config, linking vCenter templates, adding CPU, memory, and disk usage items, and creating triggers, with detailed code snippets and screenshots to ensure comprehensive virtual machine performance tracking.
This comprehensive guide explains why monitoring is essential for reliable operations, outlines clear monitoring objectives, walks through practical monitoring methods, compares popular open‑source tools, details a Zabbix‑based workflow, and lists key hardware, system, application, network, security, API, performance, and business metrics to track.
This guide explains why monitoring is essential for the entire operations lifecycle, outlines key monitoring objectives, describes practical methods and workflows, reviews a range of open‑source tools (including Zabbix, MRTG, Ganglia, Nagios, Smokeping, OpenTSDB), and details metric categories such as hardware, system, application, network, log, security, API, performance and business monitoring.
This comprehensive guide explains why monitoring is vital for operations, outlines monitoring objectives, methods, core processes, and a detailed overview of open‑source and commercial tools—including Zabbix, Open‑Falcon, and MRTG—while covering metrics, alert handling, and interview preparation for effective system monitoring.
This guide walks you through the full upgrade of Zabbix to version 5.0.0beta1 on a CentOS 7 system, covering required PHP and database versions, backup procedures, repository setup, package installation, configuration adjustments, and service restart to ensure a smooth transition.
This tutorial walks you through preparing a CentOS 8 system, installing Zabbix 4.4 and its dependencies, configuring the database and server, and completing the web‑based setup, providing all necessary commands and screenshots for a successful monitoring solution.
This guide walks through preparing a CentOS 7 host, installing Docker, configuring a Zabbix server and MySQL containers, and optionally using docker‑compose to set up Zabbix components, including the web UI and agent, with detailed commands and volume mappings for persistent monitoring.
This guide explains how to configure Zabbix 4.4 to monitor network devices such as Huawei and H3C using SNMP, covering system environment setup, metric OIDs, snmpwalk usage, template creation, port traffic aggregation, optical power monitoring, low‑level discovery filtering, and handling 32‑bit versus 64‑bit counter issues.
Learn how to set up Zabbix HTTP agent monitoring for weather data, create dependent items with JSON preprocessing, automate batch addition for multiple cities using Python, and visualize alerts on a dynamic map with custom triggers and graphics.
This guide explains how to use Zabbix's auto‑discovery feature to automatically find Redis instances on a server, create shell or Python scripts for port detection, configure Zabbix agent keys, set up server‑side templates, discovery rules, item prototypes, graphs, and triggers, and finally apply the template to monitored hosts.
Facing limited storage of Zabbix historical data in Elasticsearch, the article outlines a comprehensive strategy—expanding nodes, adding SSDs, redesigning index mapping, using hot‑cold node tiers, employing Curator for automated shrink, segment merging, and lifecycle management—to retain up to a year of monitoring data efficiently.
This article compares Prometheus with Zabbix, walks through downloading and installing Prometheus, explains the key sections of prometheus.yml, shows how to add a node_exporter for machine metrics, and demonstrates integrating Grafana to create rich monitoring dashboards.
This guide explains why monitoring is essential, describes the concept of availability "X nines," walks through Zabbix installation, web interface setup, host and template configuration, custom monitoring, alerting with OneAlert, visualization, distributed monitoring, SNMP integration, and provides practical command examples for managing large server fleets.
This article explains why monitoring is essential for operations, reviews popular monitoring tools such as Cacti, Nagios, Zabbix, Ganglia, Centreon, Prometheus and Grafana, outlines a six‑layer unified monitoring platform architecture, offers selection guidance for different enterprise sizes, and shares evolution lessons from small to large scale deployments.
This guide walks through downloading the pfSense Zabbix template, installing the os‑zabbix‑agent plugin on OPNsense, configuring custom agent parameters, testing connectivity, and setting up the host and template in Zabbix Server to monitor OPNsense metrics.
This guide explains how to integrate Zabbix alert notifications with Feishu by obtaining necessary tokens, retrieving user and chat IDs, and using Python code to send text messages to Feishu groups or users, including configuration steps within Zabbix.
This guide walks you through setting up LDAP authentication for Zabbix, covering Active Directory OU creation, Zabbix server LDAP module verification, configuration parameters, user provisioning, fallback to internal authentication, and the related database tables and SQL commands.
This guide explains how to combine ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) with Zabbix using the logstash-output-zabbix plugin, configure Logstash pipelines to filter error keywords, and set up Zabbix templates and triggers for instant log‑based alerts.
This guide explains how to extract an item ID from Zabbix alerts, capture the corresponding chart image, upload it to a public server, format the alert as markdown, and deliver it through a DingTalk robot webhook using a Python script.
This guide shows how to extend the open‑source ELK stack by installing the logstash‑output‑zabbix plugin, configuring Filebeat and Logstash to filter network device logs, and linking them to Zabbix for automated real‑time alerts, complete with sample configurations and verification steps.
This article explains how to use Zabbix for simple service‑port monitoring, covering installation, host and item creation, trigger and graph setup, and email notification configuration, providing a practical guide for developers who need lightweight operational monitoring without writing custom code.
This guide demonstrates how to use Zabbix's API with Python to retrieve host information, item IDs, historical and trend data, process the metrics, and automatically write them into an Excel/CSV file, enabling scheduled monitoring reports.
This guide walks through installing Zabbix 4.4.0 on CentOS 7, configuring PostgreSQL, adding the TimescaleDB time‑series extension, setting up the Zabbix database, and tuning Linux, Nginx, and PHP so the monitoring platform runs smoothly with high‑performance time‑series storage.
This guide explains step‑by‑step how to configure Zabbix database high availability using MariaDB master‑master replication, GTID‑based binlog synchronization, Keepalived virtual IP failover, and associated backup and monitoring scripts for reliable production deployment.
This guide explains how to configure Zabbix to monitor Windows Server login events—both successful and failed—by using eventlog keys, creating templates, items, triggers, and testing alerts to quickly detect and respond to potential security incidents.
This guide shows how to use Python 2.7 to extend Zabbix 4.2 alerts by attaching the current graph image to email and WeChat notifications, covering environment setup, script details, Zabbix media type configuration, and testing the final result.
This article explains the purpose, core functions, classification, layered architecture, and popular implementations of IT monitoring systems, covering log‑based, trace‑based, and metric‑based approaches as well as a comparison of Zabbix and Prometheus.
This article explains the essential functions of IT monitoring systems, classifies them into log, trace, and metric types, describes a five‑layer monitoring architecture, and compares two popular open‑source solutions—Zabbix and Prometheus—helping practitioners choose the right tool for their environment.
This guide shows how to use Ansible to automate the mass installation and configuration of Zabbix‑agent on both Linux and Windows hosts, covering key‑based SSH authentication, playbook creation, service management, and Zabbix auto‑discovery setup.
This guide walks through setting up a Zabbix server on ESXi, enabling NAT and port forwarding with iptables, installing the Zabbix agent on Windows Server 2012, and creating Windows‑specific monitoring items such as IIS process status and performance counters.
This tutorial explains how to retrieve Zabbix alarm data via its API, deduplicate and count triggers, generate an HTML report, and automatically email the report using Python, with optional weekly scheduling via Linux cron.
This guide walks through obtaining a free Tencent Cloud SMS quota, creating an application, signature, and template, writing a Python script to format Zabbix alerts, configuring Zabbix media types, and testing the end‑to‑end SMS notification workflow while highlighting common pitfalls.
This article explains why comprehensive, multi‑layer monitoring is essential for distributed systems, outlines environment, program, and business metrics, recommends practical tools such as Zabbix, open‑falcon, Prometheus and Grafana, and provides a step‑by‑step evolution plan and alerting strategy.
This talk shares China Mobile Online Service’s journey of building a nationwide, software‑defined monitoring platform, detailing the shift from legacy PBX systems to open‑source tools, the challenges of scaling to millions of metrics, and how AI‑driven AIOps is used to automate, compress, and intelligently alert on massive operational data.
This tutorial walks you through preparing a CentOS 7.4 system, installing MariaDB, setting up Zabbix 3.4.6 with MySQL support, configuring the database and web frontend, and finally starting all services to achieve a fully functional monitoring platform.
This article provides a thorough overview of system monitoring, covering its objectives, practical methods, core concepts, a comparison of popular open‑source and commercial tools, detailed monitoring processes (using Zabbix as an example), key metrics, alerting strategies, interview tips, and a summary of how organizations extend monitoring solutions.
This article reviews common open‑source monitoring combinations, compares their strengths and weaknesses, and shares practical guidance on selecting collectors, storage back‑ends, and visualization tools such as Telegraf, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, and alertmanager for large‑scale data platform operations.
This tutorial walks through adding the Zabbix repository, installing MySQL 5.7, configuring Nginx and PHP, setting up Zabbix server, agent, and web interface, and finally upgrading Zabbix from 4.0 to 4.2 on a CentOS 7 environment.
This guide explains how to retrieve Elasticsearch cluster health via its API, write a Python script to extract specific metrics, integrate it with Zabbix by configuring user parameters, and create monitoring templates, items, triggers, and graphs to visualize cluster status.
This guide explains how to enable status modules for Nginx, MySQL and PHP‑FPM, write Bash monitoring scripts, configure Zabbix agent user parameters, create Zabbix templates, add items, triggers and graphs, and verify monitoring of all components including the Zabbix server itself.
This guide walks through configuring Zabbix trigger actions to send email notifications, define users and media types, create a Python alert script, enable remote command execution, and automate SSH service recovery when a trigger fires.
This tutorial walks you through preparing a CentOS 7.4 system, installing MariaDB, setting up Zabbix 3.4.6 (including repository configuration, package installation, database creation, and web front‑end), adjusting PHP settings, and finally starting and enabling all services for a fully functional monitoring platform.
This tutorial walks you through preparing a CentOS 7 system, installing MariaDB, setting up Zabbix 3.4.6 with all required packages, configuring the database and web front‑end, and finally launching the monitoring service, complete with code snippets and screenshots.
This comprehensive tutorial walks you through adding the Zabbix repository, installing Zabbix server and web interface, setting up MySQL 5.7, configuring Nginx and PHP from source, deploying the Zabbix agent, installing Elasticsearch with the head plugin, and finally storing Zabbix history data in Elasticsearch on a CentOS system.
This article walks through building an automated database monitoring system using Zabbix and Ansible, covering Zabbix core automation features (LLD, API, trapper), standardizing monitoring conventions, deploying with Ansible, and implementing a Python‑based DBA_Monitor project for Oracle, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
The article introduces common open‑source monitoring tools such as Zabbix and Nagios, explains why distributed systems need proactive health checks, compares features, and provides a detailed Zabbix monitoring workflow including data collection, storage, visualization, alerting, and specific metrics for servers, networks, JVM and MySQL.
Zabbix offers a web‑based, enterprise‑grade solution for distributed system and network monitoring; this guide walks Linux ops engineers through why monitoring matters, key availability metrics, what to monitor, step‑by‑step installation, web UI configuration, custom checks, alerting, visualization, template sharing, full‑network scaling, auto‑discovery, proxy deployment, and SNMP integration.
This guide explains how to use Linux built‑in tools (iostat, iotop, sar, dstat) and popular monitoring solutions (nmon, Zabbix, Cacti) to collect, interpret, and visualize disk I/O metrics such as throughput, latency, and utilization for performance troubleshooting.
This tutorial walks you through preparing a CentOS 7.4 system, installing MariaDB, configuring Zabbix 3.4.6 (including repository setup, database creation, service startup, PHP timezone adjustment, and web UI deployment), and verifies the monitoring platform is fully operational.
This guide provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing Zabbix 3.4 on RHEL 7, including repository setup, server, proxy and web‑frontend installation, MySQL database preparation, PHP configuration, service startup, and firewall adjustments.
This guide explains how to set up a Linux virtual machine on macOS with VMware Fusion, install Zabbix 3.4 along with its dependencies (MySQL, Redis), and configure the various Zabbix components, monitoring methods, and active/passive modes for comprehensive system monitoring.
This article explains the most common Zabbix alert methods—including email, phone call, SMS, WeChat, and other channels—detailing their implementation ideas, required parameters, action configurations, and providing Python code snippets to retrieve performance graphs and send notifications.
This guide explains how to safely migrate a Zabbix monitoring server to a new machine by backing up the MySQL database with mysqldump, importing it on the new host, updating configuration files, restarting services, and ensuring time synchronization to maintain uninterrupted monitoring.
This article provides a Chinese‑English reference of frequently used Zabbix monitoring items, covering host groups, system metrics, file checks, network traffic, CPU/memory usage, and service checks, helping users configure and customize their Zabbix monitoring views.
This guide explains how to create and deploy a Bash script that retrieves a WeChat corporate token and sends Zabbix alarm messages to all users through the WeChat API, enabling automated monitoring alerts via the corporate WeChat platform.
This article shares a hands‑on guide to using BlueKing's Fault Self‑Healing (FTA) platform with Zabbix, detailing benefits, integration steps, package creation, convergence rules, job‑script linking, and real‑world case studies that dramatically reduce manual alert handling time.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to install Grafana 4 on a Linux server, configure it to start on boot, add required fonts, install the Grafana‑Zabbix and clock‑panel plugins, and create a dashboard that visualizes Zabbix metrics such as memory usage.
This article outlines the fundamentals, objectives, methods, core processes, tool selection, metrics, alerting, and interview tips for constructing a robust monitoring ecosystem, emphasizing Zabbix while comparing various open‑source solutions.
This tutorial walks through setting up Zabbix to monitor MySQL on a CentOS server, covering environment preparation, creating configuration files, adjusting paths, restarting services, applying the MySQL template on the Zabbix server, and customizing triggers and actions.
This guide walks through configuring Zabbix to monitor Nginx and PHP‑FPM status, covering software installation paths, enabling status modules, creating extraction scripts, setting up Zabbix agent userparameters, restarting services, testing data retrieval, and adding server‑side templates for items, triggers, and graphs.
This comprehensive guide explains why monitoring is vital for operations, outlines clear objectives and methods, compares popular open‑source and commercial tools, details a Zabbix‑based workflow, and covers hardware, system, application, network, security, API, performance, and business metrics with practical alerting strategies.
This article shares practical insights from a senior network manager on why enterprises need Application Performance Management, how to visualize, automate, and intelligent‑ly monitor network infrastructure, define KPI metrics, select tools like Zabbix and ELK, and implement a custom APM platform to improve reliability and reduce operational friction.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Zabbix monitoring, comparing it with Cacti and Nagios, detailing its features, architecture, and step‑by‑step instructions for installing and configuring the server, database, web interface, and agent components on a Linux environment.
The 2016 Ops Alert Report reveals Zabbix’s dominance, preferred notification channels, monthly and daily alert trends, peak alert times, regional distribution, and quirky usage statistics, offering valuable insights for operations teams to optimize monitoring and incident response.
This guide walks you through using Zabbix's JSON‑RPC API with curl to authenticate, retrieve host and item IDs, fetch historical metrics for specific time ranges, and access additional system information such as version, macros, and media settings.
This guide walks you through registering a WeChat public account, downloading and configuring the WeiXin‑Private‑API, creating Zabbix alert scripts, and verifying that WeChat messages are sent correctly when alerts fire.
This article explains why Zabbix's original table design slows down data insertion and query in large‑scale deployments, and provides a step‑by‑step code‑level optimization that creates separate "latest" tables with primary‑key indexes, modifies the server source, and updates the front‑end query to dramatically improve performance without affecting historical data ingestion.
This article explains the unauthenticated SQL injection flaw in Zabbix's JSRPC profileIdx2 parameter, details its high impact on versions 2.2.x and 3.0.0‑3.0.3, provides a step‑by‑step proof‑of‑concept exploit, and recommends upgrading to version 3.0.4 to remediate the issue.
This article introduces SNMP fundamentals, outlines the monitoring workflow, compares cacti and Nagios, and explains how Zabbix combines their strengths, covering its supported database back‑ends, core components, logical architecture, and the processes spawned by the Zabbix server.
This guide explains how to create a dedicated MySQL database and trigger to continuously pull Zabbix alarm information, transform it, and store it in a format suitable for integration with external systems.
This guide explains why Zabbix monitoring can become sluggish with large MySQL tables, and provides step‑by‑step instructions—including table modifications, stored procedures for creating, dropping, maintaining, and verifying partitions, plus automation scripts—to shrink the database and improve responsiveness.
This guide explains how to extract Zabbix graphs using screenid and graphid, download them via Python, store them temporarily, and attach the images to email reports for efficient database server monitoring.
An in‑depth guide walks readers through building a comprehensive monitoring system for small‑to‑medium enterprises, covering hardware, system, application, network, security, traffic analysis, business metrics, log aggregation, automation, visualization, and practical integration with tools like Zabbix, IPMI, ELK, and Smokeping.
This guide explains how to configure a WeChat service account, enable template messages, deploy Python and shell scripts, and integrate them with Zabbix so that monitoring alerts are sent directly to WeChat users as template messages.
This guide walks you through registering a WeChat public account, cloning and configuring a private WeChat API, creating a PHP alert script, setting up Zabbix media and actions, and finally testing the integration so Zabbix alerts are delivered to WeChat.
