Monitoring a simple web page

The internet is important in every aspect of modern life—socializing, business, entertainment, and everything else happens over the wire. With all the resources devoted to this network, many are tasked with maintaining websites—no matter whether we have an internally-hosted site or one trusted to an external hosting provider, we will want to know at least its basic health status. We could start by monitoring a few simple things on a real-life website.

Creating a web-monitoring scenario

Web monitoring in Zabbix happens through scenarios that, in turn, consist of steps. Each step consists of a URL and things to check on it. This allows both the checking of a single page and verifying that several pages work properly in succession. The web-monitoring scenarios in Zabbix are assigned to hosts, and they can also be templated.

 

 

To see how this works, we could monitor a couple of pages from the open mapping project, OpenStreetMap.

While we could attach a web-monitoring...