Zabbix in selfhosted env

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• philpo@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am using it and tbh didn’t have too many issues with it. It runs as a LXC on my Proxmox server.

  With that it’s a fairly comfortable setup - it does have API access on the proxmox node and therefore automatically discovers all LXCs,even the ones you add after the installation.

  For other machines I use a fairly easy bash script to download the agent 2 and then overwrite the config file with the right parameters,but that’s just me being lazy - it’s not that much work doing it by hand as well.

  And for everything else there is always SNMP which is fairly well supported and there are tons of templates nowadays.

  Tbh, I had Prometheus/Grafana before and found it to be much more complicated, especially when you need active and passive nodes.

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• forbiddenlake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I used to. It’s really complicated and not big in the self hosted space.

  I’d recommend the standard Prometheus, alert manager, and grafana stack instead. That’s what I use now, and although yaml sure is something, at least there’s tons of people to copy.

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  • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Zabbix is more powerfull for complex alerting scenarios and has better agent-based monitoring, while Prom/Grafana excels at metrics visualzation and integrates better with containers - they’re actually complementary depending on what you’re monitoring.

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  • mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But can Prometheus + Grafana e.g. monitor a website’s content and alert when there is a new firmware version available?

    Zabbix can be configured completely via its GUI. It’s really easy once you get the hang of it.

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    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ehh. I wouldn’t say it’s ever easy. At least not the initial setup. No matter how many times I do it, that initial setup is always a pain in the butt.

      But once you get it configured and go through the initial headaches, it’s a breeze to coast on it.

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  • cichy1173@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What is complicated in Zabbix?

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• mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have this running on a Raspberry Pi 5:

  services:
    db:
      image: postgres:16-alpine
      environment:
        - POSTGRES_USER=zabbix
        - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zabbix
        - PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data
      volumes:
        - /opt/docker/zabbix7/pgdata/16/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
      networks:
        - zabbix7
      restart: unless-stopped
  
    # fping needs setsuid
    # Connect to container as "root" and run: chmod +s /usr/sbin/fping
    server:
      image: zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest
      environment:
        - POSTGRES_USER=zabbix
        - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zabbix
        - PHP_TZ=Europe/London
        - ZBX_SERVER_NAME=zabbix.domain.com
        - ZBX_NODEADDRESS=zabbix-server:10051
      cap_add:
        - NET_RAW
        - NET_ADMIN
      volumes:
        - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/alertscripts:/usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts
        - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/externalscripts:/usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts
        - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/mibs:/usr/lib/zabbix/mibs
        - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/modules:/usr/lib/zabbix/modules
        - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/export:/var/lib/zabbix/export
        - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/snmptraps:/var/lib/zabbix/snmptraps
      ports:
        - 10051:10051
      depends_on:
        - db
      links:
        - "db:postgres-server"
      networks:
        - zabbix7
        - traefik-public
      restart: unless-stopped
  
    web:
      image: zabbix/zabbix-web-nginx-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest
      restart: unless-stopped
      environment:
          - PHP_TZ=Europe/London
          - ZBX_SERVER_NAME=zabbix.domain.com
          - ZBX_SERVER_HOST=zabbix-server
      #ports:
      #  - 10080:8080
      #  - 10081:443
      depends_on:
        - server
        - db
      links:
        - "server:zabbix-server"
        - "db:postgres-server"
      networks:
        - zabbix7
        - traefik-public
      labels:
        traefik.enable: "true"
        traefik.http.routers.zbx.rule: Host(`zabbix.domain.com`)
        traefik.http.routers.zbx.entrypoints: https
        traefik.http.routers.zbx.tls: "true"
        traefik.http.routers.zbx.tls.certresolver: le
        traefik.http.services.zbx.loadbalancer.server.port: "8080"
  
  networks:
    traefik-public:
      external: true
    zabbix7:
      attachable: true
  

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• surfrock66@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I use it at home, as a test environment as I brought it to 2 workplaces. I have a mysql VM and a front end VM.

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• 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s still on my to-do list.

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• taaz@biglemmowski.win ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  have it on dietpi (pi 4) + tailscale at home to monitor my dedics

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