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Can you create a proper weather dashboard with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.

Since Zabbix 6.2 (or 6.0? Cannot remember...) has provided you an official OpenWeatherMap template. It gives you all the standard weather details: temperature, humidity, and so on, for any location you'd like to observe.

Can you monitor how much you drive your car, even if your car wouldn't have any way to report back to Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my blog about the project.

Yay! Back in part 37 of this blog I found out that double-digit negative values were not correctly colorised by their threshold in a single item value widget. But, like I expected, Zabbix the company was quick to fix the issue after I reported it as this was such a trivial fix, and the bug has been now fixed in Zabbix 6.4.0rc2. Behold!

Three cheers for dynamic item value background colours! I just upgraded to Zabbix 6.4.0rc1 and the new dynamic panels literally bring new colour to my life. But... YO ZABBIX TEAM! Did I find a bug?

I updated to Zabbix 6.4.0 release candidate one about 30 minutes ago, and one immediate thing I have waited to get to do would be to start using the dynamic colours in the item value panels.

YAY! Now I have them.

Not yet in all of my panels, but I decided to come and write this blog post immediately for two reasons:

Earlier in this series I wondered if Zabbix could help with monitoring the baby's nocturnal waking.

It appears that... drumroll... 

YES, YOU CAN!

After we adjusted the thermostat a bit the baby has been sleeping much, much better.

I currently do have NetFlow traffic monitoring at home. But how? By day, I am a lead site reliability engineer in a global cybersecurity company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.

This morning my wife took something out of the freezer and for some reason the door was not properly closed. Unlike back in March 2022 during which a similar incident (but with an accidental power button push) started this while project, today nothing bad happened. We got alerts as soon as the freezer got too warm, and closing the door did resolve the issue in 15 minutes. Thanks, Zabbix!

Can you debug your baby's unreliable nocturnal sleeping cycle with Zabbix? Of course you can! Or, as babies can be very random, maybe "possibly". Additionally, can you monitor when your baby goes to her night sleep with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a lead site reliability engineer in a global cybersecurity company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.

Not really any new functionality in this post, but utilising the data my Zabbix is collecting. 

Can you monitor your website visitor rate with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a lead site reliability engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.

I have not deserted my project, not at all. Our about 5 1/2 months old baby girl has decided to start waking up about at the same time with me, so my usual time window for updating this blog is gone for now. The blog will return as soon as possible (I'm almost done with the next update anyway).