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 chapter, 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 severities from the drop-down menu:

   Figure 3.29 – Drop-down menu at Administration | General

   After selecting this, we'll be taken to our next page. This window contains the default Zabbix's Trigger severities, as shown in the following screenshot:

   Figure 3.30 –...