Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration

For the last chapter, we have prepared something special. As a long-time Zabbix user, the importance of cloud integration for tools such as Zabbix has not gone unnoticed. For some people, the cloud can be daunting, and thus with this chapter, I want to show you just how easy it can be to start working with the most popular cloud providers and Zabbix.

We are going to start by talking about monitoring the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud with Zabbix. Then we will also see how the same things are done using Microsoft Azure so we can clearly see the differences.

After going through these cloud products, we’ll also check out container monitoring with Docker, a very popular product that can also benefit greatly from setting up Zabbix monitoring. Follow these recipes closely and you will be able to monitor all of these products easily and work to extend the products using Zabbix. This chapter comprises the following recipes...