r/zabbix

I've got Zabbix 7.4.9 set up and it sends out Email (HTML) notifications to us, but the Description field from my host appears to be converted to a plain text string. The line breaks aren't rendering, and instead everything comes out in one long line.

What's strange is that the HTML in the message template is being rendered fine in Gmail. The <b>'s are all bolded. If I try to insert <br>'s into my Host's "Description" field, the message just displays those tags like plain text.

What am I missing?

Hi everyone, native Zabbix email media can't embed images, and our team really wants the graph in the mail (old SysOrb habit). I know the usual suspects: a custom Script media that renders a PNG via the API and sends the mail itself, mailGraph (frontend-rendered graphs, but upgrade-sensitive?), or just deep links to the event.

What do you actually run in production, how does it survive Zabbix upgrades, and does it render properly in Outlook? One graph or multiple periods per mail?

Thanks!

Other than Grafana, do we have any fancy/modern UI options for Zabbix?

Looking for something suitable for NOC dashboards, executive views, visualization and reporting — preferably something that can be used in production.

I'm currently evaluating the implementation of Zabbix.

For the moment, I would like a basic approach: monitoring disk space, CPU, RAM usage, and basic device availability. Once I get comfortable with the tool, I’ll expand the monitoring logic and fine-tune templates.

My main focus right now is choosing the right architecture and deployment model. The infrastructure to monitor includes:

• HQ site: switches, firewalls, and Hyper-V hosts running Windows and Linux VMs.
• Branch offices: a few physical/virtual servers per site.
• AWS environment: mainly Ubuntu VMs, VPCs, and RDS MySQL instances.

Currently, we are talking about 250 devices/hosts.
On VMs I plan to deploy the Zabbix Agent while network equipment (switches, firewalls) will be monitored via SNMP. I expect NVPS (New Values Per Second) to remain relatively low initially, but SNMP discovery on managed switches might bump it up.

I understand that deploying Zabbix proxies is the standard bridge between remote sites/AWS and the main server.

Since I want to focus on governance, dashboards, and alerting rather than maintaining the server where Zabbix is installed, I'm considering a hosted/cloud route.

I'd love to get your thoughts on a few points:

1. Is Zabbix Cloud a good choice for this architecture? Has anyone here had experience with the Zabbix Cloud option?A key factor in our setup is that AWS (and eventually Azure) environments are dedicated to our external customers. I want to strictly avoid installing internal monitoring tools directly inside a customer's cloud infrastructure (especially since different teams are involved and responsibilities are segregated)
2. Am I missing any critical bottlenecks regarding proxy traffic, retention policy or firewalling for remote branch proxies?
3. Is it worth engaging an official Zabbix partner for the initial setup and sizing?
4. do the commercial support tiers (silver, gold, etc.) add real value for a deployment of this size?

Thanks in advance for your insights and recommendations!

Hi

Is anyone here monitoring a Hyper-V cluster with Zabbix?

I'm currently setting up monitoring for multiple Hyper-V hosts and would love to see how others have organized their dashboards. Specifically, I'm looking for ideas on monitoring:

• CPU usage
• Memory usage and available memory
• Disk usage and free space
• Hyper-V host health
• VM status and performance
• Cluster health (if applicable)

If you're already doing this, would you mind sharing a screenshot of your dashboard or explaining which widgets, graphs, and templates you're using? I'm trying to build a clean, informative dashboard and would really appreciate some inspiration.

Any idea's how to fix this? MySQL, Zabbix running on ubuntu. Updating form 7.4 to 8.0. Had problems with the right signatures while downloading the packages. I got around that now when we start it users are seeing.

• The Zabbix database version does not match current requirements. Your database version: 7040000. Required version: 7050061. Please contact your system administrator.

$ apt-show-versions | grep zabbix

zabbix-agent2:amd64/noble 2:8.0.0~beta2-1+ubuntu24.04 uptodate

zabbix-agent2-plugin-mongodb:amd64/noble 1:8.0.0~beta2-1+ubuntu24.04 uptodate

zabbix-agent2-plugin-mssql:amd64/noble 1:8.0.0~beta2-1+ubuntu24.04 uptodate

zabbix-agent2-plugin-postgresql:amd64/noble 1:8.0.0~beta2-1+ubuntu24.04 uptodate

zabbix-apache-conf:all/noble 2:8.0.0~beta2-1+ubuntu24.04 uptodate

zabbix-frontend-php:all/noble 2:8.0.0~beta2-1+ubuntu24.04 uptodate

zabbix-release:all/noble 2:8.0-0.3+ubuntu24.04 uptodate

zabbix-server-mysql:amd64/noble 2:8.0.0~beta2-1+ubuntu24.04 uptodate

zabbix-sql-scripts:all/noble 2:8.0.0~beta2-1+ubuntu24.04 uptodate