Monitoring Zabbix

When you run Zabbix, it's not always easy to know how many pollers you need, for example for SNMP, IPMI, and so on. To find out more about this, Zabbix has some built-in health checks. In this topic, we will show you how to read them.

Getting ready

For this recipe, make sure that you are a Zabbix administrator and that you have your agent configured on the Zabbix server. Also make sure that the template Template App Zabbix Server is linked with your Zabbix host.

How to do it

From the menu, go to Monitoring | Latest data and select the Zabbix server as host to see. Select Zabbix server from the item list to get an overview of the data of all items:

Here we have an easy overview of how much our pollers are busy or idle. Remember that in our Zabbix 2.4, we have graphs automatically generated in Latest data, so we can click on those graphs and see easy if, for example, at a certain time pollers were not enough available.

The data that we see here is based on the internal items, more...