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🚀 Zabbix 8.0 is coming soon — and CEP is one of the features we’re watching closely.

The new Complex Event Processing correlation engine brings a smarter way to work with incidents in Zabbix.

Instead of looking at every problem as a separate alert, CEP helps connect related events, work with time windows, group symptoms under a probable root cause, and enrich events with additional context.

Why is this important?

Because in real environments, one incident rarely creates just one alert.

It can trigger dozens — sometimes hundreds — of problems across hosts, services, and applications. CEP helps reduce that noise and gives operators a clearer view of what actually happened.

We prepared a technical sneak peek with screenshots and practical examples from our Zabbix 8.0 testing.

👉 Read more here:
https://www.initmax.com/the-new-zabbix-8-0-is-here/ -cep-correlation-engine-complex-event-processing

🚀 How we unified monitoring at Alza.cz a.s. using Zabbix

Since 2020, we have been helping Alza.cz a.s. consolidate its heterogeneous monitoring environment into one centralized solution built on Zabbix.

The goal was clear: speed up incident response, improve infrastructure visibility, and build a robust monitoring setup capable of handling an environment of this scale.

The result?

✅ replacing 3 monitoring systems with one centralized solution
✅ scaling monitoring from 3,500 to 25,000 values per second
✅ monitoring infrastructure, business processes, and warehouses
✅ monitoring AlzaBoxes, including theft attempts, hardware, cameras, and temperature
✅ a long-term partnership lasting 5 years

The project was not only about technical architecture, PoC, and implementation. Knowledge transfer also played a key role through workshops and certified training sessions.

A big thank you to the Alza.cz team for their trust and great cooperation. 💚

Read the full case study here:
https://www.initmax.com/case-study/how-we-unified-monitoring-using-zabbix-with-alza-cz/

We’re proud to announce that initMAX is now a Zabbix Premium Delivery Partner in the US.

And there is one more thing that makes this milestone even stronger:
we are currently the only Premium Delivery Partner in the US that also holds a Zabbix Certified Trainer license.

What does that mean in practice?

It means customers can work with one partner for:
implementation,
optimization,
official Zabbix training,
and long-term support.

No need to split delivery and training between multiple vendors.

For US customers, this gives access to a team with long-term hands-on Zabbix experience, enterprise project background, and direct capability to help with deployments, migrations, audits, performance tuning, support, and custom development.

This is an important step for our US presence, and we are excited for what comes next.

Read more in our article: https://www.initmax.com/zabbix-premium-delivery-partner-usa/

🚀 Next up with Lambert: Install Zabbix 8.0 in Five Minutes

Want to get Zabbix 8.0 running fast — but also right? In this session we’ll show a practical, production-ready install approach based on best practices proven in real deployments.

In this webinar we’ll cover:
✅ The fastest clean install path (what to choose and why)
✅ Key best practices you should do on day one
✅ Common setup pitfalls (and how to avoid them)
✅ A solid baseline for a stable, maintainable Zabbix 8.0 environment

🗓️ Apr 16, 2026
🕑 2:00–4:00 PM – New York (EDT / GMT−4)

🔗 Register for free + access recordings: https://www.initmax.com/webinars/

🚀 Pozvánka na webinář (CZ)
Nested LLD v praxi: praktické použití pro monitoring Proxmoxu v Zabbixu

📅 16. 4. 2026
🕙 10:00—12:00

Na webináři vám představíme jednu z nejzajímavějších novinek Zabbixu 7.4 – Nested Low‑level Discovery, díky které můžete efektivněji objevovat služby a zařízení ve více úrovních. Ukážeme si to prakticky na aktualizované Proxmox šabloně a navazujících scénářích monitoringu.

📌 Registrace a detaily: dostupné na webu: https://www.initmax.cz/webinare/
Odborné webináře zdarma - initMAX s.r.o.
Budujeme komunitu IT profesionálů. Pravidelně přinášíme odborné webináře Zabbix, Wazuh, PostgreSQL a další. Na webu také naleznete záznamy z webinářů.

We’re happy to announce that initMAX is now an SMSEagle Silver Partner!

SMSEagle brings a reliable on-premise SMS gateway approach for organizations that want alerting independent of external cloud SMS providers. In practice, that means more control, better resilience, and a model that fits environments with stricter security, compliance, or availability requirements.

For us, this partnership is not only about hardware delivery. It is also about real integration value:
• Zabbix monitoring templates for SMSEagle devices
• help with selecting the right model and deployment
• integration into monitoring and alerting workflows
• upcoming SMS-based acknowledgement for Zabbix, where an on-duty engineer can acknowledge an alert simply by replying to the SMS

This is exactly the kind of practical improvement we like: less friction during incidents, faster response, and clearer alert ownership.

More in our article: https://www.initmax.com/smseagle-silver-partner/

S radostí oznamujeme, že se initMAX stal SMSEagle Silver Partnerem!

SMSEagle přináší spolehlivý přístup k on-premise SMS gateway pro organizace, které chtějí mít alerting nezávislý na externích cloudových SMS providerech. V praxi to znamená větší kontrolu, vyšší odolnost a model, který dobře zapadá do prostředí s přísnějšími požadavky na bezpečnost, compliance nebo dostupnost.

Pro nás toto partnerství není jen o dodávce hardwaru. Je také o skutečné integrační hodnotě:
• monitorovací šablony pro Zabbix pro zařízení SMSEagle
• pomoc s výběrem správného modelu a jeho nasazením
• integrace do monitorovacích a alertingových workflow
• připravované potvrzování alertů v Zabbixu pomocí SMS, kdy službu konající inženýr může potvrdit alert jednoduše odpovědí na SMS

Přesně taková praktická vylepšení máme rádi: méně zdržení během incidentů, rychlejší reakce a jasnější vlastnictví alertů.

Více v našem článku: https://www.initmax.cz/smseagle-silver-partner/

🚀 Next up with Dmitry Lambert: High Availability for Zabbix Server and Zabbix Proxy

Running Zabbix in production and can’t afford a single point of failure? This session is all about practical HA — how to design it, configure it, and keep it reliable.

In this webinar we’ll cover:
✅ Zabbix Server HA setup (what matters for stable failover)
✅ Zabbix Proxy HA — what’s new and how to use it properly
✅ Practical HA configuration patterns (and what to avoid)
✅ Tips & tricks for reliable operations in real environments

🗓️ Apr 02, 2026
🕑 at 2 PM – New York (EDT / GMT−4)

🔗 Register for free + access recordings: https://www.initmax.com/webinars/

🚀 We just open-sourced something we’ve been using internally:
A fully featured MCP server for Zabbix — exposing ALL 57 API groups as 220 MCP tools.

No shortcuts. No artificial limits.

👉 Hosts, problems, triggers, templates, items, dashboards, maps, users, proxies, maintenance, discovery, config import/export… everything.

💡 Why this matters

Most existing integrations only wrap a small subset of the API.

We went all-in:
• ✅ 220 tools (not 30–40)
• ✅ Raw API fallback (zabbix_raw_api_call)
• ✅ No parameter restrictions — full API flexibility
• ✅ Multi-server support (prod / staging / dev in parallel)
• ✅ Version-aware (Zabbix 5.0 → 7.4)
• ✅ Production-ready install (systemd, logrotate, venv, hardening)

⚡ Plug & play with any AI

It uses Model Context Protocol (MCP) over Streamable HTTP.

Works out of the box with:
• ChatGPT
• Claude
• Codex
• VS Code Copilot
• JetBrains AI

{
"mcpServers": {
"zabbix": {
"url": "http://your-server:8080/mcp"
}
}
}

Then just ask:
• “Show me all current problems”
• “Put host db-01 into maintenance for 2 hours”
• “Export Linux template as YAML”

…and let the AI handle the rest.

👉 You can also connect it to your own ChatGPT-based AI widget (for example embedded in your portal or internal tools) and give users natural-language control over Zabbix.

🔒 Built for real environments
• Rate limiting
• Auto-reconnect
• Bearer token auth
• Per-server read-only mode

🔗 GitHub https://github.com/initMAX/zabbix-mcp-server

AGPL-3.0 — feedback & PRs welcome 🙌

🤖 Why we built it

We believe the future of observability is:
➡️ AI-native
➡️ API-first
➡️ automation-driven

This is our next step in that direction.

🚀 Pozvánka na webinář (CZ)
Zabbix best practices: architektura, instalace, provoz a údržba

📅 12. 3. 2026
🕙 10:00—12:00 (Praha / CET)

Chcete mít Zabbix (včetně Windows prostředí) stabilní, škálovatelný a připravený na růst? V tomhle webináři půjdeme víc do hloubky — od návrhu architektury až po bezpečnost a provozní rutiny, které dělají rozdíl.

O čem budeme mluvit?
✅ návrh architektury Zabbixu a High Availability (kdy ano / kdy ne)
✅ doporučené postupy pro instalaci a upgrade (verze, komponenty, databáze)
✅ práce se šablonami, standardizace a udržitelnost konfigurace
✅ bezpečnější přihlašování a integrace (SAML)
✅ tipy z reálného provozu: výkon, údržba, “co se nejčastěji pokazí”

📌 Registrace a detaily: https://www.initmax.cz/webinare/