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Zabbix with Data Diodes – Metric Streaming

This is Part 1 of a blog series about using Zabbix with Data Diodes. Background Disclaimer: I’m not claiming that this solution is perfect, nor do I recommend using these methods in a production environment without some thorough consideration. I find this topic interesting, and thus perhaps someone will find these methods an inspiration for future studies. So what is this blog post about, and why might you find it…

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Zabbix HA Proxy with containers

By Antti Hurme 11/12/2024 No Comments 12 Min Read

With Zabbix 7.0 we got Zabbix High Availability proxies (ZBXNEXT-8758), and they provide greatly improved availability and scalability for your monitoring. Zabbix proxies handle a lot of the same functionality that the server, and from a performance point of view they do pre-processing for the server and only send the values forward to the server itself. Thus we free up resources on the server to handle triggers, escalations alerts and…

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Veeam NFR licensing renewal for your homelab not available?! What to do 2024 onwards?

By Antti Hurme 07/12/2024 No Comments 4 Min Read

If you are reading this, you probably tried to renew your NFR license with Veeam and as me you haven’t really followed what Veeam has done regarding licensing. Doing it the old way, you searched for NFR license key for Veeam Backup & Replication, and then ended up to the same old form where you say you are a VMware VCP/VCAP etc certified. And then you get the email below;…

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Upgrading Zabbix 7 DB to PostgreSQL17 with Timescaledb 2.17

By Antti Hurme 25/11/2024 No Comments 4 Min Read

With Zabbix release 7.0.6 (Release Notes for Zabbix 7.0.6) both TimescaleDB extension 2.7 (ZBXNEXT-9532) and PostgreSQL 17 (ZBXNEXT-9238) became officially supported. Great! Time to upgrade the homelab environment! Upgrading to PostgreSQL 17 In my homelab environment, I’ve had PostgreSQL 15 before the upgrade with TimescaleDB extension version 2.15. Always refer to the official PostgreSQL upgrade manual for upgrade paths. Note that this is for a stand-alone single node PGSQL database,…

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