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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook
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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

by Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
7h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3: Working with Triggers and Alerts

Now, what use would all of that collected data in Zabbix be without actually doing some alerting with it? Of course, we can use Zabbix to collect our data and just go over it, but it's way better when we actually start sending out notifications to users. This way, we don't have to always keep an eye on our Zabbix frontend, but we can just let our triggers and alerts do the work for us, redirecting us to the frontend only when we need it.

We will learn all about setting up effective triggers and alerts in the following recipes:

  • Setting up triggers
  • Setting up alerts
  • Keeping alerts effective
  • Customizing alerts

Technical requirements

For this chapter, we will need a Zabbix server—for instance, the one ...

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ISBN: 9781800202238