Customizing alerts

Alerting is very useful, especially in combination with some of the tricks we’ve learned in this book so far to keep everything structured. But sometimes, we need a little more from our alerts than what we are already getting from Zabbix out of the box.

In this recipe, we’ll do a small bit of customization to make the alerts more our own.

Getting ready

For this recipe, all we are going to need is our current Zabbix server installation.

How to do it…

To customize alerts, follow these steps:

1. Let’s create some custom severities in our Zabbix server to reflect our organization’s needs. Navigate to Administration | General and select Trigger displaying options from the side menu:

Figure 4.44 – Administration | General from side menu

After selecting this, we’ll be taken to the next page. This window contains the default Zabbix trigger severities, as shown in the following...