Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we learned to monitor web pages based on various parameters, including response time, transfer speed, HTTP return code, and text contained in the page itself. We also learned how to set up multiple scenarios, and steps as well as setting up variables to be used in those steps. As a more advanced example, we logged in to the Zabbix frontend and logged out of it. For that to work, we extracted the session ID and reused it in subsequent steps. With this knowledge, it should be possible to monitor most of the functionality web pages have.

For production systems, there will usually be way more applications, scenarios, and steps. Web monitoring can be used for many different purposes, the most popular being site availability ...