What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Zabbix and User Management, covers how to set up Zabbix, work your way through its menus, and create your first users.

Chapter 2, Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring, covers how to set up almost any type of monitoring within Zabbix.

Chapter 3, Working with Triggers and Alerts, covers how to set up triggers and get alerts from them.

Chapter 4, Building Your Own Structured Templates, covers how to build templates that are structured and will work wonders for keeping your Zabbix setup organized.

Chapter 5, Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting, covers how to visualize data in graphs, maps, and dashboards. It also covers how to use the Zabbix inventory and reporting functionality.

Chapter 6, Using Discovery for Automatic Creation, covers how to use Zabbix discovery for automatic host creation as well as items, triggers, and more with agents, SNMP, WMI, and JMX.

Chapter 7, Setting Up Zabbix Proxies, teaches how to set up Zabbix proxies correctly for use in a production environment.

Chapter 8, Integrating Zabbix with External Services, teaches how to integrate Zabbix with external services for alerting.

Chapter 9, Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and API, covers how to extend Zabbix functionality by using custom scripts and the Zabbix API.

Chapter 10, Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup, covers how to maintain a Zabbix setup and keep its performance up over time.

Chapter 11, Advanced Zabbix Database Management, teaches how to manage Zabbix databases for an advanced setup.

Chapter 12, Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration, covers how to use Zabbix in the cloud with services such as AWS, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes.