Zabbix - Open Source, Self Hosted Server, Network, and Device monitoring system with power! 

make sure to jump over to Marc's video @OneMarcFifty and check out some even better ways to monitor, inventory, and alert using Zabbix! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DFdDEf5iib4.html

Welcome from Latvia! From Zabbix homeland.

I tried setting up a docker solution for zabbix many many months ago and it was a headache. The easiest solution was to run the dam thing as a virtual machine. Where it took me days tinkering and stressing out myself without any luck it took me literally 10 minutes to have it up and running as a vm. It's still up and working perfectly for the company I work for and the backing up..OMG so easy.

really good. was using this for years in many places. rock solid and tons of features.

This was a good one. Did struggle a-lot when I tried it a long time ago. Thanks

Very nice video. Been using Zabbix for several years for monitoring a small data center setup across 3 locations. The proxy function works well for situations like that. I don't particular like the interface, but using Zabbix more as a back-end with a Grafana front-end works well for us. Had to switch to a SQL cluster to make the Zabbix scale a little better. Zabbix/Graylog/Grafana makes a great monitoring solution for smaller installations. Less than 300 devices. May I suggest Graylog for a future video.

Awesome video, you rock!

I've been using Zabbix since 2016. It developed a lot.

@brian, Great job on sharing all the awesome opensource project. FYI: I have noticed in several of your recent videos that you have been cutting out key points in the videos during editing. Case and point at 12:35 while editing the .env_db_mysql_proxy file there is a jump/skip of key information. The audio gives the impression you didn't change anything in the file, but is not the case. Go back and view like the previous 3 vids and you see simular issues.

What a great video ;-) Liked and subscribed ;-)

Zabbix is awesome tool, i am using it from 4 years

Zabbix is very nice we already using this

Here from OneMarchFifty. I like the way he teaches and subscribed to you too.

This is really powerful. I am a 2 year old user.

I use Zabbix for ages. Good reliable and free system. Very convinient for OS monitoring. But need some knowledge to install.

Dear Author, thank you so much for your great video on Zabbix install! Even though there are lot of changes now in Zabbix repo, it is still worth to follow your guide. It would be very useful to find out how to set up zabbix-agent on the host machine. I've been trying to find some guides about that, but unfortunately I can't. Looks like I'm setting config in the wrong way and cant even start service, even though it is running like a charm on a similar install on another host. I would appreciate if you will share your ideas about that. Keep up your brilliant work!

I would highly recommend doing a video on LibreNMS, it’s a fork of observium but more actively developed , as far as monitoring network devices and troubleshooting network issues it’s king of the hill, seriously

I've used Zabbix for years now and it just keeps getting better and better. Flexible as well! I use Node-Red to grab and process data from a flaky energy meter and send the data to Zabbix. I also have a trigger when I don't get data for 5 mins to run an expect script that logs into a PDU the energy meter is connected to and toggles the power to reset it.

I would also review NetXMS. Very powerful and customizable open source NMS as well

👍👍👍

Both CheckMK and Nagio have free versions that you may want to check out. TrueNAS Scale has Zabbix in the TrueCharts system.

Great video (as always 😉). Quick one: I'm using Portainer to manage stacks and containers, and would like to create a stack from the docker-compose.yml file. I understand I'll have to use absolute path to the .env_* files (in env_vars folder) but the yml file references a ./zbx_env/var/lib/... folder which I cannot find in the folder tree created from git: is it created at runtime or should I create it before creating the stack? Thanks in advance for any help!

Looking with google for a solution but i`m getting the same problem over and over i think i wil continu using The Dude that`s working fine for now. Or is there a problem to solve i don`t know im 2 days busy to resolve this problem but still can`t find the solution(s).

The solutiona is cool

Great Video, but how do you solve the problem with the Zabbix Server in red?

A huge problem with zabbix is its lack of DNS caching. if you use DNS names instead of IPs then your DNS servers, with 50 hosts loaded into zabbix, will be hit approximately 46000 times a minute. a local DNS caching server is required for this. otherwise only use IPs and set everything being monitored with zabbix as static addresses. Zabbix otherwise is a great software and monitoring system. with our system, we have specifically denied all DNS requests from the zabbix server and all clients have the agent config set with just IPs.

Great video. Will this work on a raspberry pi 4 8Gb with ubuntu server 20.04 64bits and docker?

While you were deploying this with docker-compose up && ,...... was there an option to specify if the container would be privileged or not? That may solve the problems you had afterwards? Or is this something completely irrelevant? Thank you

So this is for internal use and non-windows machines or am I mistaken? Would like to find something that's self-hosted to limit my RMM company which saves me money and allow me to pass that savings to my clients.

Good day... Is it possible to plot the time series data stored in MSSQL using zabix

weird when im running the docker compose, if i typed docker-compose then i get some error about unsupported config, if i remove "-" and docker compose it works fine

Uw this looks super fun to spin up a ubuntu server and test on... Question though, i'm following along with the video. If my host OS is ubuntu server any reason I wouldn't want to use the compose file with ubuntu in it? 🤔

I am getting this error and having a really hard time finding the answer online. any help would be much appreciated. Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: open /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn: no such file or directory: unknown the file doesn't exist also. Did something get missed since this docker is running on an LXC with Ubuntu?

Hey, awesome video, unfortunately I ran into an issue where one of my containers wasn't able to start. Here's the error message: "Container zabbix-docker-zabbix-web-nginx-mysql-1 Starting 1.1s Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: open /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn: no such file or directory: unknown". Any help or guidance you could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

hi, great video and tutorial I am having this issue zabbix-docker-zabbix-web-nginx-mysql-1 | ** Deploying Zabbix web-interface (Nginx) with MySQL database zabbix-docker-zabbix-web-nginx-mysql-1 | **** Secret file "/run/secrets/MYSQL_USER" is not found zabbix-docker-zabbix-server-1 | ** Preparing Zabbix server zabbix-docker-zabbix-server-1 | ** Preparing database zabbix-docker-zabbix-server-1 | **** Secret file "/run/secrets/MYSQL_USER" is not found

Check_MK is my favorite.

Zabbix really struggles with any sort of scaling. Beyond a handful of servers (20 or so) it really starts to crap out. Especially if you use any templates that collect a lot of data. It will also just completely die if you do a lot of backups and such over night. We need to restart our Zabbix server every hour. The default parameters for config cache fills up after bout 45 servers. You need to set at least 256MB for the config cache. Many people configure 1GB. The other cache values also need tweaked for each environment. You'll also need at minimum 50 pollers and tons of proxies. Probably 1 proxy for every 20 servers is a good place to start. If you spend any time on the Zabbix forum you'll find overall system performance and long term stability is a big issue. Not to mention you won't get any real support on the forums.

Great video, beats nagios and others as free and less complex, full featured. Also watched OneMarcFifty tips. 👻

On the Wiki "cp docker-compose_v3_alpine_mysql_latest.yml docker-compose.yml" missing "a" file is .yaml

Just wanted to let everyone know please do not run Agent 2 and/or Agent 2 Docker image until Zabbix fixes the heap-based buffer over-read issue. This has some serious security implications. nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-43995 github.com/zabbix/zabbix-docker/issues/1026

Thanks for the video. Think ive missed something, any chance you could shed some light on what i have missed? seem to be getting permission errors when starting the docker. /zabbix-docker$ sudo docker-compose up -d && docker-compose logs -f WARNING: The following deploy sub-keys are not supported and have been ignored: resources.reservations.cpus WARNING: The following deploy sub-keys are not supported and have been ignored: resources.reservations.cpus WARNING: The following deploy sub-keys are not supported and have been ignored: resources.reservations.cpus WARNING: The following deploy sub-keys are not supported and have been ignored: resources.reservations.cpus WARNING: The following deploy sub-keys are not supported and have been ignored: resources.reservations.cpus WARNING: The following deploy sub-keys are not supported and have been ignored: resources.reservations.cpus WARNING: The following deploy sub-keys are not supported and have been ignored: resources.reservations.cpus WARNING: The following deploy sub-keys are not supported and have been ignored: resources.reservations.cpus WARNING: The following deploy sub-keys are not supported and have been ignored: resources.reservations.cpus Starting zabbix-docker_mysql-server_1 ... done Starting zabbix-docker_db_data_mysql_1 ... done Starting zabbix-docker_zabbix-server_1 ... done Recreating zabbix-docker_zabbix-web-nginx-mysql_1 ... done Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 699, in urlopen httplib_response = self._make_request( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 394, in _make_request conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1282, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1328, in _send_request self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1277, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1037, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 975, in send self.connect() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 30, in connect sock.connect(self.unix_socket) PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 439, in send resp = conn.urlopen( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 755, in urlopen retries = retries.increment( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 532, in increment raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/six.py", line 718, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 699, in urlopen httplib_response = self._make_request( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 394, in _make_request conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1282, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1328, in _send_request self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1277, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1037, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 975, in send self.connect() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 30, in connect sock.connect(self.unix_socket) urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')) During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 214, in _retrieve_server_version return self.version(api_version=False)["ApiVersion"] File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/api/daemon.py", line 181, in version return self._result(self._get(url), json=True) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/utils/decorators.py", line 46, in inner return f(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 237, in _get return self.get(url, **self._set_request_timeout(kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 555, in get return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 542, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 655, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 498, in send raise ConnectionError(err, request=request) requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')) During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 33, in sys.exit(load_entry_point('docker-compose==1.29.2', 'console_scripts', 'docker-compose')()) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 81, in main command_func() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 200, in perform_command project = project_from_options('.', options) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 60, in project_from_options return get_project( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 152, in get_project client = get_client( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/docker_client.py", line 41, in get_client client = docker_client( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/docker_client.py", line 170, in docker_client client = APIClient(use_ssh_client=not use_paramiko_ssh, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 197, in __init__ self._version = self._retrieve_server_version() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 221, in _retrieve_server_version raise DockerException( docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: ('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))

quick tip for password ```head /dev/urandom | shasum -a 256 | cut -d '-' -f1 > .MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD```

"lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN" good command