Monitoring your Zabbix proxies

A lot of Zabbix users—or even monitoring users in general—forget a very important part of their monitoring. They forget to monitor the monitoring infrastructure. I want to make sure that when you set up Zabbix proxies, you also know how to monitor the health of these proxies.

Let's check out how to do so in this recipe.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our new lar-book-proxy-active Zabbix proxy. We will also need our Zabbix server to monitor the Zabbix proxy.

How to do it…

We are going to build some monitoring in our Zabbix frontend, but we'll also check the integrated monitoring options for Zabbix proxies. Let's start by building our own.

Monitoring the proxy with Zabbix

We can monitor our Zabbix proxy with Zabbix proxy itself to make sure we know exactly what's going on:

1. Let's start by logging in to our lar-book-proxy-active Zabbix proxy CLI.
2. Issue the following...