Installing Zabbix and Getting Started Using the Frontend
For Zabbix 7, the developers have really outdone themselves. In this Long Term Support (LTS) release, we will find far more quality-of-life (QoL) changes along with some impressive new cutting-edge features. Coming from Zabbix 6.0, you will still find a lot of improvements made in Zabbix 6.2 and 6.4 as those have, of course, been included in Zabbix 7.0 LTS. We will detail all important changes throughout the book.
In this chapter, we will install the Zabbix server and explore the Zabbix UI to get you familiar with it. We will go over finding your hosts, triggers, dashboards, and more to make sure you feel confident diving into the deeper material later on in this book. The Zabbix UI has a lot of options to explore, so if you are just getting started, don’t get overwhelmed. It’s quite structurally built, and once you get the hang of it, I am confident you will find your way without issues. You will learn all about...