Milestone 1: Your Own Monitoring
By the end of day one, participants have built their own monitoring that raises a real alert when a real problem occurs.
Corporate Training · Monitoring · 3 Days
Zabbix Training – Monitoring That Really Alerts.
In three days, your team uses the current stable Zabbix release to build monitoring that does more than draw graphs: it collects data from servers, network devices, log files and interfaces, detects real problems and alerts the right people – without alert floods. The course motto: if you can produce a number, you can monitor it.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Format
- In-house or remote
- Language
- German or English – course and materials
- Level
- Beginner to advanced
- Lab
- Dedicated lab environment per participant
- Dates
- By arrangement
- Price
- €5,950 net
- fixed price, up to 8 participants
- includes materials and handouts
- includes lab environment per participant
- includes Ask the Trainer after the course
- plus travel and accommodation on-site
- fixed price, up to 8 participants
- includes materials
- includes lab per participant
- includes Ask the Trainer
- plus travel expenses
Learning Objectives
What Your Team Can Do After the Zabbix Training
After three days, every participant has built their own Zabbix environment, connected a wide range of data sources and set up alerting that holds up in day-to-day operations.
- Explain the Zabbix architecture with server, database, frontend, agents and proxies, and plan it for your own environment.
- Install Zabbix, create hosts, groups and users, and connect Linux and Windows systems with agent 2.
- Design templates, items and triggers so that real problems are detected and alert floods do not happen.
- Collect data via simple checks, SSH, SNMP, log files, zabbix_sender and REST APIs.
- Turn raw values into meaningful metrics with value preprocessing and add custom checks via UserParameter.
- Build alerting with media types, actions and escalation chains, and control it with tags and correlation.
- Encrypt communication with PSK and certificates and protect credentials with secret macros.
- Connect remote sites via proxies and proxy groups and plan maintenance windows properly.
- Use dashboards, web monitoring and housekeeping for a Zabbix setup that can be run for the long term.
Target Audience
Who the Zabbix Training Is For
The training is designed for teams that are introducing Zabbix, taking over an existing installation or want to bring their monitoring up to date.
Audience
- Linux and Windows administrators
- Network and operations teams responsible for availability
- Monitoring owners and operations centers
- DevOps engineers who monitor applications and interfaces
Prerequisites
- Confident use of the Linux command line
- Basic Linux and Windows administration skills
- Basic networking knowledge, such as IP addresses, ports and protocols
No prior knowledge of Zabbix or any other monitoring tool is required.
The Hands-On Project
Clusterhausen Waffle Works Gets Monitoring
Clusterhausen Waffle Works – a fictional company, handmade since 1998 – has grown: an online shop, the WaffelOrder order system, its own servers and several branches. So far, the company only notices outages when customers call. The participants are the new monitoring team and build the monitoring from the ground up.
The target picture is the map of data sources: agents on the servers, agentless checks for devices without an agent, log files, scripts that report their own results, and interfaces queried over HTTP. Every chapter taps into another source and checks it off on the map. At the end come alerting, a branch behind a proxy, the customers’ view of the shop and a dashboard for the team.
Milestone 2: Every Data Source Tapped
On day two, the team opens up one source after another – from the agent through SNMP and log files to the REST API.
Milestone 3: Ready for Operations
On day three, monitoring turns into operations: escalation, encryption, proxies, maintenance windows and dashboards.
Prediction Checks and Transfer
Before anything is triggered comes the question of what should happen. The later exercises only define the goal and the acceptance criteria.
Agenda
Zabbix Training in Three Days
Three days, three stages: the foundation, the data sources and operations. Each stage ends with a milestone that visibly works in your own environment.
Day 1 The Foundation Architecture, installation and the first monitored systems. By the end of the day, your own monitoring with templates and triggers is in place and alerts on a real problem.
Topics
- Monitoring fundamentals and the core idea of the course
- Architecture – server, database, frontend, agents and proxies
- High availability for the Zabbix server
- Installation and initial setup
- Hosts, host and template groups, users
- Zabbix agent 2 on Linux and Windows, active and passive
- Templates, items and triggers
- Avoiding alert floods – dependencies and sensible thresholds
Exercises
- Bringing the control center online – setting up Zabbix
- The company’s first servers check in – agent 2 on Linux and Windows
- The first real alert – template, item and trigger
Milestone: Your own monitoring is up and running and raises an alert when something goes wrong on the company’s systems.
Day 2 Tapping Every Data Source The core of the course: getting data from almost any source and making it usable. Macros and tags keep the monitoring clear and manageable along the way.
Topics
- Simple checks and SSH checks
- Macros for reusable configuration
- Custom checks with UserParameter
- Value preprocessing – from JSONPath to throttling
- Log file monitoring and the Windows event log
- Push data with zabbix_sender
- HTTP agent and REST APIs
- SNMP for network devices
- Tags and event correlation
Exercises
- Reachability without an agent – simple and SSH checks
- From raw values to metrics – custom checks and preprocessing
- What happens at night – log files and push data
- Tapping interfaces – values from a REST API
- Keeping an eye on the network – SNMP and correlated alerts
Milestone: Every path on the data source map is tapped – the core idea is proven in your own environment.
Day 3 From Monitoring to Operations A working monitoring setup becomes an environment ready for operations: with escalation, encryption, remote sites, maintenance windows and a dashboard for the team.
Topics
- Alerting – media types, actions and escalation chains
- Security – PSK, certificates and secret macros
- Users, roles, permissions and MFA
- Proxies and proxy groups for remote sites
- Maintenance windows
- Web monitoring from the user’s perspective
- Dashboards and widgets
- Backup, housekeeping and best practices
- Outlook – discovery and upcoming Zabbix releases
Exercises
- Who gets woken up when – two-level escalation
- Encrypted – certificates for server and agents
- The South branch – connected via proxy and proxy group
- The customer’s view – web monitoring
- The team dashboard
Milestone: The monitoring is ready for operations: encrypted, with escalation, across sites and with a dashboard for the team.
We adapt the order and weighting to the group’s prior knowledge and pace. On request, we set priorities, such as network monitoring, Windows or monitoring your own applications.
Lab Environment
A Dedicated Monitoring Environment for Every Participant
Every participant works with their own Zabbix server as well as their own Linux and Windows systems to monitor. The environment is fully prepared and ready from the very first minute.
Dedicated Systems per Participant
Each person has exclusive use of a Zabbix server, a Linux system and a Windows system – for experiments, mistakes and real alerts.
Access via the Browser
The environment is conveniently accessible via the browser. No local installation is needed, and your IT department does not have to open anything up.
Alerts That Actually Arrive
Notifications land in a test mailbox within the lab environment. This makes every escalation level traceable without burdening real mailboxes.
Fully Tested Before Every Course
The exercises are run through in the lab environment before every course and checked against the Zabbix release in use.
Materials
What Participants Take Home
Slide Deck as a Handout
All chapters with our own diagrams and overviews for easy reference, aligned with the current Zabbix release.
Exercise Sheets
Exercises with a clear goal, prediction checks and transparent acceptance criteria.
Review Quizzes
Short reviews reinforce the material and show where a deeper dive is worthwhile.
Ask the Trainer
One hour for your practical questions, two to four weeks after the course. Included in the price of every training.
Formats
Zabbix Training In-House or Online
In-House at Your Site
The training takes place on your premises. Your team learns together and brings in questions about its own monitoring directly.
Remote in a Virtual Classroom
Live instruction with joint exercise phases and direct support in each participant’s own monitoring environment – ideal for distributed teams.
Customized Corporate Training
We align focus areas and examples with your landscape, such as network devices, Windows servers or integrating your own applications.
Individual Training as a Workshop
Your team already works with Zabbix and wants to dive deeper into a specific topic – such as alerting without alert floods, template design or proxies? Then a tailored workshop is the right fit.
After the course
Ask the Trainer
The real work starts after the course. That is why every training includes an Ask the Trainer session: two to four weeks after the course, we meet online for one hour. Your participants send in the questions that came up while applying what they learned in your environment. That leaves the session free for what matters: specific answers for your systems, not the textbook case. The session is included in the price.
Pricing
3 days · €5,950 net for your team of up to 8 participants
includes materials, lab environment and Ask the Trainer session, plus travel and accommodation for on-site delivery
See the training overview for all terms.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions About the Zabbix Training
Who is the Zabbix training suitable for?
For administrators, network and operations teams and DevOps engineers who want to build, take over or modernize monitoring with Zabbix. The course starts with the architecture and extends to escalation, proxies and security.
What prior knowledge is needed for the Zabbix course?
Confident use of the Linux command line and basic knowledge of Linux, Windows and networking are enough. No experience with Zabbix or other monitoring tools is required.
Which Zabbix version is used?
The training uses the current stable Zabbix release. New features in upcoming releases are covered as an outlook, so your team is prepared for the next upgrade as well. On request, we align the course with the version you use.
Is the Zabbix training also available online?
Yes. The training can be booked as in-house training on site or remotely in a virtual classroom. In both formats, every participant works in their own monitoring environment, conveniently via the browser.
Can we make an existing Zabbix installation the focus?
Yes. In a customized training, we pick up questions and examples from your environment, for example on templates, alerting or proxies. The exercises themselves run in the lab environment, so your production system remains untouched.
What is Clusterhausen Waffle Works all about?
Clusterhausen Waffle Works is a fictional company that ties all the exercises of the Zabbix training together into one connected project: the growing company gets monitoring, and the participants build it from the ground up as the monitoring team. This creates realistic reasons for every topic and a clear target picture the group works toward together.
Can the agenda be adapted to our environment?
Yes. We agree on focus areas, depth and examples with you in advance, such as more time for SNMP and network devices, for Windows or for monitoring your own applications.
How much does the Zabbix training cost?
The Zabbix training costs €5,950 net. This is a fixed price for up to 8 participants, including course materials, lab environment and Ask the Trainer session, plus travel expenses for on-site delivery. See the training overview for all terms.
What is the Ask the Trainer session?
A one-hour online session two to four weeks after the course, no later than six weeks after the course ends. Your participants submit their questions up to three business days before the session and the trainer prepares the answers. The session is included in the fixed price and covers questions related to the course topic. For in-depth consulting on your own environment, we are happy to prepare a separate offer.
How many participants can attend, and in what language is the course held?
The training is designed for teams of up to 8. We recommend small groups so that there is enough time for individual support. The course and materials are available in German or English – you choose the language when you send your request.
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