Built a free Chrome extension that sounds an alarm + notification the second a new Zabbix problem shows up (no polling dashboards)
Hey r/zabbix,
I got tired of staring at a Zabbix dashboard on a second monitor waiting for something to go red, so I built a small Chrome/Edge extension that does it for me: it polls the Zabbix API in the background and fires a sound alarm + desktop notification the moment a new problem appears, even if the browser tab is in the background or the dashboard isn't open at all.
It's free, MIT licensed, and there's nothing hardcoded, no telemetry, no analytics. It only talks to the Zabbix URL(s) you configure.
Some things it does:
- Multi-instance: watch up to 8 independent Zabbix servers at once, each problem badged with its instance.
- 3 auth modes per instance: browser session (zero credentials, just keep a Zabbix tab logged in), API token, or username/password (extension logs in and renews the session itself).
- Re-alarm while a problem stays unacknowledged, until you ack it or mute.
- Working hours aware: reads the Working time from your Zabbix server and stays quiet outside it (list/badge still update).
- Maintenance aware: problems in a maintenance window get tagged MNT and stay silent (or can be hidden).
- Meeting mode: auto-silences sound/notifications while you're in a Google Meet call.
- Snooze a single problem, ack from the popup, per-severity sound/volume, host group filters, min severity, max age, export/import config as JSON, etc.
- Works with Zabbix 6.0 through 7.4 (frontend session + API calls). Haven't validated 8.0 stable yet.
- PT/EN/ES UI, auto-picked from your browser locale.
Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/zabbix-noc-alerter/nlbihmhpbdfhnglclecbaebnfpjbngep
Source (MIT): https://github.com/opastorello/zabbix-noc-alerter
I'm the author, so full disclosure on that. It's a side project I use daily for our own NOC, figured others watching Zabbix all day might find it useful too.
Happy to take feature requests/bug reports on GitHub, and open to feedback here.