Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook: Explore the new features of Zabbix 5 for designing, building, and maintaining your Zabbix setup - Couverture souple

Nathan Liefting; Brian Van Baekel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800202237 ISBN 13 : 9781800202238

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Discover practical recipes to help you efficiently monitor enterprise IT infrastructure for Windows, Linux, and networking

Key Features

• Find out how you can leverage some of the most exciting features of Zabbix 5
• Perform professional IT infrastructure and application monitoring on multiple platforms
• Discover easy-to-follow, practical solutions to problems in network monitoring with Zabbix

Book Description

Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its variety of powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 5 for effectively monitoring the performance of devices and applications over networks.

The book starts by guiding you through the installation of Zabbix and using the Zabbix frontend. You'll then work your way through the most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. The book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. As you advance, you'll learn how to use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your everyday Zabbix monitoring work.

By the end of this Zabbix book, you'll have learned how to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.

What you will learn

• Explore the different types of monitoring available in Zabbix 5
• Find out how to build your own Zabbix templates
• Use Zabbix proxies for effective load balancing/scaling
• Work with custom integrations and the Zabbix API
• Set up triggers and alerting with Zabbix 5
• Maintain your Zabbix setup for scaling, backups, and upgrades
• Discover how to perform advanced Zabbix database management
• Monitor cloud-based products such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Docker

Who this book is for

This book is for IT engineers who want to get started with Zabbix and anyone with an intermediate understanding of Zabbix looking to extend their knowledge. Although not necessary, prior experience with Zabbix will help you to make the most of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Getting started with Zabbix and user management
2. Setting up Zabbix monitoring
3. Working with triggers and alerts
4. Building your own structured templates
5. Visualizing data, inventory and reporting
6. Using discovery for automatic creation
7. Setting up Zabbix proxies
8. Integrating Zabbix with External services
9. Extending Zabbix functionality with custom scripts and Zabbix API
10. Maintaining your Zabbix Setup
11. Advanced Zabbix database management
12. Bringing Zabbix to the cloud with Zabbix cloud integration

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nathan Liefting, also known as Larcorba, is an IT consultant, trainer, and content creator (artist). He has more than 6 years of professional experience in IT. His experience ranges from managing networks running EVPN/VXLAN to Linux environments and programming. Nathan started working with Zabbix in 2016, when it was still at Zabbix 2 and Zabbix 3 was just released.

He now works for Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands as a Zabbix trainer and consultant, designing and building professional Zabbix environments and Zabbix components for some of the biggest companies around the world.

Brian van Baekel quickly discovered how powerful Zabbix is during his career as a network engineer. Ever since, he has been working with Zabbix in various (large) environments, leading to his official Zabbix Certified Trainer certification in early 2017.

In 2018, Brian founded Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands and Opensource ICT Solutions LLC in the USA. Both companies primarily focus on building Zabbix environments all over the world. Fun fact: even his cat is named "Zabbix".

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Discover practical recipes to help you efficiently monitor enterprise IT infrastructure for Windows, Linux, and networking Key Features:Find out how you can leverage some of the most exciting features of Zabbix 5 Perform professional IT infrastructure and application monitoring on multiple platforms Discover easy-to-follow, practical solutions to problems in network monitoring with Zabbix Book Description: Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its variety of powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 5 for effectively monitoring the performance of devices and applications over networks. The book starts by guiding you through the installation of Zabbix and using the Zabbix frontend. You'll then work your way through the most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. The book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. As you advance, you'll learn how to use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your everyday Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this Zabbix book, you'll have learned how to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities. What You Will Learn:Explore the different types of monitoring available in Zabbix 5 Find out how to build your own Zabbix templates Use Zabbix proxies for effective load balancing/scaling Work with custom integrations and the Zabbix API Set up triggers and alerting with Zabbix 5 Maintain your Zabbix setup for scaling, backups, and upgrades Discover how to perform advanced Zabbix database management Monitor cloud-based products such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Docker Who this book is for: ¿This book is for IT engineers who want to get started with Zabbix and anyone with an intermediate understanding of Zabbix looking to extend their knowledge. Although not necessary, prior experience with Zabbix will help you to make the most of this book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800202237
• ISBN 13: 9781800202238
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 420
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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