Chapter 10. Zabbix Maintenance and API

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Maintenance periods
  • Monitoring Zabbix
  • Backups
  • Avoiding performance issues
  • Zabbix API
  • API by example

Introduction

So far we have seen how to set up Zabbix to get information from our hosts and to get notified when things go wrong. In this chapter, I will try to show you how to do some maintenance tasks in Zabbix and explain you how to improve the performance. We will also have a quick look at the API.

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