Setting up Slack alerting with Zabbix

Slack is a widely used tool for easy text messaging, voice/video chat, and collaboration. In this recipe, we will learn how to use Zabbix Slack integration to send our Zabbix problem information to Slack so that we can gain a good overview of issues.

Getting ready

Make sure you have Slack set up. You can go to https://slack.com/intl/en-in/ and set it up for free there. We will also need a Zabbix server with some active problems.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

1. Once you have set up and opened Slack, you should see the following page:

Figure 9.1 – Slack's default page

2. Let's create a new channel for our Zabbix notifications by clicking the +Add channels button. Then, from the dropdown that appears, click Create a new channel:

Figure 9.2 – Slack – Create a channel window

3. Click the green Create button...