r/zabbix

At work we currently use Grafana to visualize alerts, but I'm starting to question whether it's the right choice. Since Grafana is purely a visualization layer and relies on an external data source for alerting, it feels like an incomplete solution on its own.

I've been thinking that a better architecture would be: a Zabbix server in High Availability, with a Zabbix Proxy and Agents deployed per customer. This would cover data collection, alerting, escalation, and dashboarding all in one place.

That said — am I wrong? Is there a strong case for Grafana that I'm missing? I'm genuinely curious if anyone has a setup where Grafana truly shines over a full monitoring stack like Zabbix.

Hello everyone!

I've pretty much just started working with Zabbix in a M365/windows environment and I've helped the company that I'm currently doing my internship at to monitor things like:

- AD Replication
- Certificate expiration on "critical" certificates
- RDS-related monitoring
- Specific windows-services (that are not included in Zabbix templates for Windows)
- Other AD-related monitoring
And more.

I've also set up specific triggers for the monitoring I've created, adjusted some of the current triggers to behave more precisely, created a couple of dashboards, to be able to link some of the more important services/servers together in one place.

Outside of this I feel like we monitor the "standard stuff" in our Zabbix environment.

What I'm now looking for is not the "basic server/service monitoring", but more the things that templates and the basic configuration don't actually include/monitor.

Do you guys have any tips, tricks, or examples of things that are worth monitoring in Zabbix, but that people often miss when setting up their environment?

I'm especially interested in practical examples/tips from real environments.

Thanks in advance and take care!

We have Zabbix deployed in a Docker container and recently updated the SendGrid password. Since then, Zabbix email notifications have stopped working, even after updating the new password in the media type configuration.

I tested email sending manually from inside the container, and emails are being received successfully. However, when testing through the Zabbix media type, it fails with the following error:

"Timeout was reached: Connection timed out after 40002 milliseconds."

Any idea how can I resolve it.?

In CheckMk it let's you upload a single file in order to upgrade everything, does Zabbix have anything like this for the appliance?

Or is there a way to make a Docker Install work in an airgapped network, where I can just pull some docker files and use a docker hosting OS that supports file based updates?

Has this update totally broken the agent?

Looks like in now runs under zabbix_agent_t context but th zabbix-selinux-policy package doesn't seem to cover it. Discovery of systemd fails, socket created in and plugins fail. Had to revert back to 7.4.9 which is fine.

Anyone else seeing this on el10 hosts?