Can you monitor your MacBook behaviour with Zabbix? Of course you can!
My personal Mac is old. It's way too old, actually. It's a MacBook Pro Retina mid-2012 -- yes, I bought it back in August 2012. It has served me well, even so well that with OpenCore Legacy Patcher it has been if not snappy, but fast enough to use for my blogging purposes and so forth. The laptop was running macOS Ventura until few days back, but then I made a mistake -- a big mistake -- as I upgraded it to latest macOS Sonoma.
I have had macOS Zabbix Agent running on my Mac ever since I started my project back in March 2022. The macOS template in Zabbix is surprisingly sparta, it does not give you nearly as many details as Linux, Windows or even SNMP templates do give you.
Anyway, thanks to Zabbix, you can very clearly see where I took some extra backups of my Mac and then upgraded to macOS Sonoma. The processor load is now skyrocketing after each boot, hovering much higher than before on average, and worst of all, is crashing in weird ways.
How is it crashing, then?
In many ways. It can completely lock up out of the blue, it can drop the Wi-Fi connection, it can develop graphics glitches on screen, it can start to consume CPU for processes that have been silent (like fileproviderd) for all of my Mac life since 2012.
So, in case you are running a geriatric Mac -- consider twice before you use OpenCore Legacy Patcher to go for macOS Sonoma. Whilst I type this, the latest OpenCore Legacy Patcher version is 1.2.1 and with that, things are not smooth.
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