Setting up Microsoft Teams alerting with Zabbix

At the time of writing this book, I'm living in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 crisis. A lot of IT companies have been requested to make their employees work from home. Due to this, there's been a rise in the use of Microsoft Teams and applications like it. Suddenly, a lot of companies have started using Microsoft Teams and others to make working from home and collaboration easier.

Let's learn how we can make working with Microsoft Teams even better by integrating our Zabbix alerting into it.

Getting ready

We will need our Zabbix server to be able to create some problems for us. For this, you can use lar-book-centos from our previous chapters or any Zabbix server that you prefer.

We will also need general Microsoft Teams knowledge and, of course, Microsoft Teams itself set up and ready to go.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

1. Let's start by opening our Microsoft...