Monitoring with Zabbix

Zabbix was originally conceived in 1998, and the first stable release was in 2004. Zabbix is a robust web-based network monitoring tool capable of monitoring 25,000 hosts and running hundreds of metrics per host every minute. Zabbix is a true open source tool without any enterprise paid versions. It takes just a few minutes to install even by a beginner, and can be fully configured and managed through a web-based interface. The following screenshot shows the Zabbix dashboard after logging in through the WebGUI:

Zabbix has a very active community and many downloadable templates to monitor a variety of devices or equipment. It is also comparatively easier to create your own custom Zabbix template for nonstandard devices. More details on Zabbix can be found on the official Zabbix site at http://www.zabbix.com/. In this section, we are going to see how to install Zabbix and configure it to monitor Proxmox hosts and virtual machines.

Getting ready

Zabbix can be installed on...