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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.

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.

Who wouldn't need a HAProxy in front of their Selenium instances at home? I guess nobody would NEED it but here we are.

I had my Zabbix Selenium tests running on my personal Mac. The trouble is/was that if I took my Mac away from home, or did take it offline for any reason, my tests broke. That. Is. Not. Good.

Zabbix 7.0 is fast. Not only it is fast for the new performance it gained underneath, but it also feels fast even on a Raspberry Pi 4.

Me being me, the following truly is an idea brought to you by Bad Idea Panda. Please, please do not try this at home. Or actually, DO try this at home, or any lab, but under any circumstances, DO NOT try this in production. Clear? Clear. Good, let's continue.

One of my colleagues still has not learned that if she goes for a vacation, she should not give me the exact name of the cruise ship she's going to. What do I do? Of course, I monitor the cruise ship location with Zabbix.

Tracking a cruise ship? WHY?

Because I can. This all started when she sent me a link to one of the ship tracking sites, like FlightRadar, but for maritime vessels. My response back was "I need to add this to my Zabbix", and here we are.

A quick tip to possibly give you new ideas.

As Zabbix got the new fantastic Selenium-based synthetic web tests, you will now have a new component to monitor. How do you monitori Selenium? With Zabbix, of course! If you are inpatient, feel free to download my very bare bones example template.

Zabbix 7.0rc2 was released few days ago, and one of the most striking additions to it is the pre-built template for the new Selenium-based website monitoring. Of course I had to try it out.