Keeping alerts effective

It's important to keep our alerts effective to make sure we are neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed by notifications. To do this, we will change our trigger and the Email media type to reflect just what we want to see.

Getting ready

We will be using Trigger 1 from the first recipe and the default email media type in Zabbix 5. Furthermore, of course, we'll also be using our Zabbix server.

How to do it…

To create effective alerts, let's follow these steps:

1. Let's get started on Trigger 1, which we created in this chapter's Setting up triggers recipe. Navigate to our lar-agent-simple host by going to Configuration | Hosts and clicking the Triggers for the host.
2. Here, sometimes people us a different trigger name like:

   Figure 3.22 – Trigger 1 from the previous recipe

   Even when you've used the macro {HOST.NAME} in the trigger it's quite simple, so fortunately there isn't a lot to change...