Database monitoring with Zabbix

Zabbix offers a way to query any database using SQL queries. The result retrieved from the database is saved as the item value and can have, as usual, triggers associated with it. This functionality is useful in many applications. This gives you a way to monitor the user currently connected to a database, the number of users connected to your web portal, or simply retrieve metrics from the DBMS engine.

Delving into ODBC

ODBC is a layer—a translation layer between Database Management Systems (DBMS) and the application. The application uses the ODBC function through the linked ODBC driver manager. The ODBC driver has been implemented and developed in concert with most of the DBMS vendors to enable their database to ...

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