Chapter 4: Working with Triggers and Alerts

Now, what use would all of that collected data in Zabbix be without actually doing some alerting with it? Of course, we can use Zabbix to collect our data and just go over it manually, but Zabbix gets a lot more useful when we actually start sending out notifications to users. This way, we don't have to always keep an eye on our Zabbix frontend, but we can just let our triggers and alerts do the work for us, redirecting us to the frontend only when we need it.

In Zabbix 6, you will find a new trigger expressions syntax compared to Zabbix 5. This syntax has been available since Zabbix 5.4, so this is the first time we'll be working with it in an LTS release. If you've worked with Zabbix before version 6, keep in mind that you might need to get used to this new syntax.

We will learn all about setting up effective triggers with the new expression format and about alerts in the following recipes:

• Setting up triggers...