Chapter 11: Advanced Zabbix Database Management

Whether you've been using Zabbix for a while or you are looking toward setting up your first production instance, database management is important right from the start. A lot of the time, people set up their Zabbix database and don't know yet that it will be a big database. The Zabbix housekeeper just can't keep up when your database grows beyond a certain size and that's where we need to look toward different options.

In this chapter, we'll look into keeping our Zabbix database from using up 100% disk space when the Zabbix housekeeper is not keeping up. For MySQL users, we'll look into using database partitioning to keep our database in check. For PostgreSQL users, we'll look toward the brand-new ...

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