An overview of Zabbix 4.0 and how we are using it.

[@MikeJamieGavin]

For anyone setting up config files for Windows boxes, be aware that entries in the config file are case sensitive. For example, if your Zabbix folder is C:\Zabbix, and you create the log entry like: LogFile=C:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.log your config will fail. If you change it to: LogFile=C:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.log (note the uppercase Z) it will load. In general Windows is case aware, but not case sensitive, so this can burn a seasoned Windows admin.

[@JamesT65]

I installed this across my home network monitoring, raspberry pi, my phone and 4 virtual systems along with Grafana for server monitoring. My only mistake was installing an older server with newer clients and getting header issues, solved with deploying a 4.0 server... Fantastic tool that allows me to automate a lot of functions.

[@lkfng]

Will there be a video on how to set this up and begin monitoring our first servers?

[@geogmz8277]

I have Pfsense+Zabbix+Grafana is really cool thing to have.

[@zbc_152]

Awesome video! We're having a LibreNMS vs Zabbix show-down at work. I'd love to see more on this NMS.

[@subkhanave]

how's the result? AFAIK LibreNMS don't have yet granular alerting option

[@sabmayahai320]

A perfect short video for understanding the look and feel of the zabbix monitoring system UI. Thanks!!

[@UltramaticOrange]

3:25 Just a friendly reminder that setting alerting thresholds is an iterative process and trying to get it all right in one shot is more painful than enabling and tuning a few at a time.

[@MirkWoot]

It looks Very VERY much like my Telegraf + InfluxDB + Grafana setup. But this seems to have other and more options, better in some areas.

[@ShivohamTamilMeaning]

Thank you. Nice walk through.. much appriciated

[@RakshithPrakash]

They use this in India?

[@TheMemcon]

Great video! Would love to see more Zabbix videos/tutorials.

[@vikassharma-ky9id]

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[@jolejo7]

Personally I've try a few different monitoring system. They are all look similar and work in way pretty similar. For me the point that make me user nagios: Plugins: Nagios Core offers an extensive range of additional plugins. Zabbix:No Documentation goes to Nagios Pnp4Nagiois for Graph

[@zzzz104]

Thanks for another great video! Love to see more videos about Zabbix

[@OneVerySadPanda]

Correction. You were using SolarWinds :-D

[@BandanazX]

Every search... LAWRENCE SYSTEMS!

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

It happens

[@MrSupermansmother]

Thx again! Everytime i need some info im ending up on your channel. Great stuff

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Awesome, thank you!

[@daphbobo]

hello, I'm a fan of you channel, pretty good content. I agree Zabbix is simple abd powerful. I have used cacti, nagios and now been using zabbix for a few years. it's my eyes into the network performance, havnt upgraded to zabbix 4.0 though.. i've just upgraded to zabbix 3.4 about a year or so. I create my own templates to keep it simple and get just what i need and not all of it. the real trick is tuning zabbix and zabbix database. got about a thousand monitored devices.

[@Amzouri360]

you're a great man God bless this abundant knowledge

[@cfisupply]

+1 for the getting started video. I'm working on building a home lab as well as another lab setup for a local group's "Tech Night". Also interested in LibreNMS which has been mentioned in the comments. I'm trying to keep as much of the lab project as open sourced as possible.

[@loeken]

What about icinga/icinga director ? :)

[@lanceeilers5061]

Very Cool Tom , will have a look at it at a later stage - I need to get to the gym , but it kind of reminds me of net health , Concord ..... etc we used in the Frame relay and Cisco networks , in my previous life , thanks a bunch Tom ... just a quick question were you also experiencing performance and stability issues with xcp and xoa (cpu and mem high utilization) , I recently ended up rolling back to version 7.4 and 5.28 and restoring my vdi's - I know there is some testing going on , with test patches .... fun fun fun happy day's are here again Tom I was also wondering about that hole in your back yard , you could have rented a small digger loader (bob cat) and possibly dug it up yourself , or if you feel really ambitious possible tried your hand at a shovel would have saved you heaps of cash ......and less foundation damage (possibly up and coming) .... part of life ... write it on your stomach and wipe it off ... have a great one , cheers for ears and have a blessed season .....

[@t0nkatsu]

Is it possible to get latency/packet loss data for a certain host from a pfSense box? The monitoring on pfSense itself isn't enough for getting a good picture of ISP faults and network congestion problems (unless I've overlooked something). Could I use Zabbix with pfSense to get this kind of data?

[@LokeshKumarJ-qn4bq]

can you make a video for setting it up ??? fan request :-)

[@connorcleveland9166]

Using zabbix 3.4 installed from Ubuntu apt repos. Does anyone know if the version on the ppa has the libcurl module compiled? I want to update to 4.0 with libcurl support but I didn't all the way through compiling from source. Also my zabbix agent on pfsense stopped working after the latest pfsense update that went to php 7 :( Edit: Spun and migrated to zabbix 4 using their ppa with no issues and it is compiled with all the extras like libcurl support.

[@bralis2]

Can Zabbix control applications to the level for example when let's say a software developer write something in the code and output is printed in the console of IDE and actually Zabbix can read this and report it ?

[@johanweyers1359]

Can we receive an updated video perhaps?

[@davidharo3612]

Buenas tardes, disculpa tendras los templetas de la version 4.0?

[@barma1309]

Using zabbix from 2.0 version, it's cool staff. 4.0 is awesome

[@davidharrison865]

Tom - great video as usual. I'm running the latest pfSense and have just installed Zabbix 4.x Noticed in your video you are pulling elements from pfSense beyond what the freeBSD template provides, such as the interfaces etc. Do you have a template you can share or point to for the Zabbix server that matches what the agent packages that are bundled with pfSense?

[@santiagotosti9057]

Could you find the answer? same problem here

[@charliebrownau]

Happy Christmas and Merry new Year

[@ericolson3752]

This is great and all, how the hell do you get it to do all this??! It's like a full time job just getting this set up and to do what you want it to do.

[@BobBlanchett]

And then to monitor endpoints... Add osquery ;)

[@marksie1988]

just had a look at Zabbix, seems to have quite a bit missing from the interface e.g. top x resource etc. also cant seem to have a widget that shows the URL of the monitored websites may work best with the grafana plugin tbh

[@prtaz3]

Wondering if you're still using Zabbix or if you would recommend another open source monitoring tool. Keep up the great videos.

[@cesaramaral129]

I need a help. I am looking for a way to verify if a website is up or down (code 200) or redirect. The problem is the amount of 150 sites. Any trick to do or I need to insert one by one as a host that belongs to a group. Thanks for your attention

[@alpachino468]

Struggling with the pfsense firewall rules a little. My external server needs to connect home and to the correct VLAN, but I just cannot get it to work...?

[@stonent]

Has anyone gotten Zabbix to run in Hyper V under WIndows 10 1909? Either the appliance VHDX or the .ISO freeze on the kernel messages during boot under a Generation 1 system.

[@bopal93]

Thanks for the video. What Zabbix template are you using? Could you share please?

[@bopal93]

bump!

[@RakshithPrakash]

@@bopal93 lol , where are you planning to use this?

[@bopal93]

@@RakshithPrakash pfsense. To monitor gateways, bandwidth, vpn status, latency etc

[@BrianThomas]

Question. Are you installing the zabbix server on the pfsense box or the agent?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Pfsense has a zabbix agent plugin

[@guyevans1425]

Yay for a video on Zabbix. Reminds me that I need to clean up and update mine

[@Metal1996]

I have been trying to find a way to install the agent onto FreeNAS. From my research I would need to setup a jail but wonder if there's a way around that. How did you install the agent on your FreeNAS?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

I just downloaded the zabbix agent directly on to the FreeNAS system and added the zabbix user for it to run as.

[@RC_92]

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Can you demonstrate. Tried this zabbix.org/wiki/Install_on_FreeNAS, stuck on the ON THE FREENAS BOX part.

[@cenubit]

Is it badland. For example Kubernetes , It is not possible to monitoring qualitatively. It's a torment.

[@willross6468]

Would love to see some Zabbix videos for getting common stuff setup. Both nagios and Zabbix do not have many video resources for beginners. There are a couple scattered around on YT, but pretty outdated or poor production quality

[@IvarsRuza]

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[@hazarablood-bank3242]

i am facing problem for connecting mysqli it dose not connect can you please help me why.

[@rv112xy]

How did you get the interfaces working from pfSense? I chose template FreeBSD but only can get CPU and Memory usage shown. Network discovery is shown as "not supported". What am I doing wrong?

[@rv112xy]

Got it working by using OS Linux template instead of the OS FreeBSD template.

[@hannesm.2130]

maybe I just overlooked it :) do you have a video where zabbix installation in a jail on a FreeNAS is shown ? i just have the problem that Zabbix server 4.4 runs in a jail, but in the frontend say "PostgreSQL server is nit running..." the status at the SSH is running. Any idea what's wrong in my mindset ? Thx forward Hannes

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

I don't run it in a jail

[@hannesm.2130]

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS I've given up the installation in a jail. it looks like the PHP 7.4 is not compatible. Now i've installed Zabbix 5.0 in a Debian VM on a FreeNAS Host - that's working fine :) sorry, for my delay in the reply.

[@izzojuan]

Hello Lawrence, what distro and theme used in the video, and i love que terminal that you use. Thanks!

[@jolebole-yt]

His name is Tom :)

[@tcstev1]

How do I set up the web access. I have the agent install on my Windows server. But I am not stuck in the mud!

[@fdgvieira82]

Awesome video! Thanks.

[@thingyee1118]

Dude it’s all about LibreNMS and snmpd

[@renragged]

26:02 I believe it's pronounced: Wa-way

[@vongocngu2433]

Hello guy, can you give me theme chrome you using ?

[@lordgarth1]

I was just looking at this to replace CA UIM.

[@harsha_b6549]

Hi , Im using Zabbix 4.0 I'm trying to monitor a log file for the word "error" server and host(host agent is configured with server ip in agent.config file) agents are up opened 10050 - 10051 ports between machines and the debugmode with 5 I have created Item key = "log[/var/log/test.log,ERROR]" Trigger = "{zabbix-host:log[/var/log/test.log,ERROR].str(ERROR)}=1" There is no trigger generated, and im not able to find any logs for the item in zabbix-agent.log I have tried with may triggers expressions and different item keys for diffrenet log files, still there is no trigger or log generated. Can any one tell me how to troubleshoot this issue.

[@khue6377]

How can you this to monitor your home network

[@MikeJamieGavin]

If you have and devices (switches) that support SNMP, you can monitor them. If you have any other computers, you can install an agent and point them towards your Zabbix server.

[@barma1309]

@@MikeJamieGavin are you mean Snmp?

[@MikeJamieGavin]

@@barma1309 yes. Edited to fix the typo.

[@CapitaineWEB-FR]

Wonder if it can monitor FreePBX. Didn't you had a freepbx installation for your phone?

[@MikeJamieGavin]

You can see the templates here: share.zabbix.com/atc/pbx/all Without a template, you can monitor a bunch of stuff, so even if they don't have a template for your pbx, you can still get alerts about disk space, CPU, etc by just using the linux template that applies to your box.

[@stevedestivelle4228]

Of course you could monitor it with Zabbix. Just check the template on share.zabbix.com or made one based on fwconsole command.

[@QQBB]

nice intro video

[@JakeHillion]

Do you have any solution to open source centralised log management? Somewhat like PaperTrail

[@jassona]

ELK

[@tomcollins2163]

Graylog. We have a 6-node cluster which is now a fully-fledged SIEM; integrating with OTX. It also supports Grafana for improved visualisations. I cannot speak highly enough of it, and of course, it's opensource. Make sure you add the aggregate alert plugin..

[@OthmanAlikhan]

Thanks for the video =)

[@expectnomercyracing730]

WTF I don't watch for a few days decide to set up a zabbix server having issues connecting why didn't I include LTS with my searches. haven't watched yet but I'm sure yall help.

[@_MD80]

Do you use Zabbix as an alternative to Solarwinds NPM?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

partially

[@_MD80]

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS so do you use NPM too?

[@chucksw1]

Curious on how much data it stores for a given time?

[@MikeJamieGavin]

It logs what you tell it to. It varies largely on the device and the template you use to monitor it.

[@abdelhakeljamali4101]

great videos many thanks

[@JoeKingstonS]

Check out CheckMK. It's very easy to set up and free.

[@JensAndersson]

Using check_mk @ Work gonna check out zabbix

[@Amzouri360]

What ...... the system Linux ... !!! Who was installed ( Zabbix ) Thank man lan

[@bobbymoore868]

vs. PTRG?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Dunno, don't use PTRG.

[@edwardsoares3838]

vs $$$$ is the better question.

[@antoniomanuelfidalgo7565]

Nice video. Tks.

[@vickyyagami]

Darkmode makes thing harder to see

[@amirnorouzi8450]

There is little about networking.

[@pierreancelot8864]

Zabbix is the worst monitoring software I had to deal with. Have a look at Prometheus + grafana

[@testes2390]

Hi Pierre Could I know why... is it bad... thanks