Chapter 8: Integrating Zabbix with External Services

In this chapter, we are going to set up some of the useful external service integrations that Zabbix has to offer. We can use these external services to notify our Zabbix users of ongoing problems.

We will start by learning how to set up in-company chat applications such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Then, we will learn how to use a personal chat application such as Telegram before learning how to integrate Atlassian Opsgenie for even more extensive alerting.

Once you've completed these recipes, you will be able to effectively integrate certain services with Zabbix. This is a good starting point for working with external services in general and the easiest way to set up Slack, Teams, Opsgenie, ...

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