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After all Qubes OS and monZphere blogging, let's get closer to original theme of my blog - home monitoring, or monitoring myself.

Zabbix 7.0 API got a nice little history.push method, allowing you to send data to Zabbix over its API. How I'm going to use it? Thanks for asking, I'm going to send the song names of the music I'm listening to. For the sake of simplicity, this entry shows how to send a single value.

As part of my monZphere custom Zabbix modules blogging spree, here comes the next one. This is where things are getting more exciting. What if you could do your Zabbix tasks just by chatting with a friendly chatbot? What if I told you that you can actually do that today?

Here's yet another module by monZphere: Kanban view of your incidents. 

Standard Zabbix Problems view

Before going on to how it looks like, here's the standard Problems view in Zabbix, in case you would not have used Zabbix.

With Zabbix 7.0 improved widget framework, the game clearly is on and the custom modules are popping out.

Yesterday I promised, or at least wrote, that I might not monitor my Qubes OS virtual machines. But, as a monitoring addict, I had to do that. As this is just boring usual Linux monitoring, let's at least use the automatic agent registration feature of Zabbix to do this.

Here's a weird, perhaps overly paranoid habit of mine: each year I arrive to Zabbix Summit -- or any similar conference -- with my Linux laptop reinstalled from scratch, running with the fortress that is Qubes OS. 

Thanks to that, no matter what would happen to my laptop either physically or through super skilled black hats, there's absolutely no risk that anything important or sensitive would be lost. It gives me the peace of mind and is a fun little period of time when I play around with something Completely Else.

As a continuation to my testing of initMAX custom Zabbix 7.0 widgets PRO versions, here's itemMAX widget.

Item value widget 

Zabbix has come with the item value widget for as long as anyone can remember. In fact, it's among the most important widgets you could think of.

Once again, I will be a speaker at the Zabbix Summit 2024 -- this time I'll keep the talk on brand new AI track, the topic being What's up, home? goes Generative AI. 

See you at the summit!

The following is a story about partially black monitoring with many missing details due reasons told later in this post, but is also a story about how a single hint on your dashboard can sometimes be your best friend.

Last year my Raspberry Pi 4 SD card started to tell me it should be retired. Some I/O errors, and more than that, suddenly the I/O request times started to be up to 10,000-20,000 milliseconds.

If you wonder why I've been so silent lately, it's because of I had my personal maintenance window going on for a month. In other words, I enjoyed my summer holiday. 

While I was away from keyboard, the nice fellows at InitMAX sent me two more pro versions of their custom Zabbix 7.0 widgets: gaugeMAX and ItemMAX. I'll create separate blog posts about them and today start with gaugeMAX.