Zabbix Certified Specialist + Professional + Expert
Zabbix Certified Specialist
In this course, you’ll learn how to configure and track a variety of monitoring endpoints by utilizing different techniques and protocols. The course also focuses on demonstrating optimal problem detection approaches, data transformation features, and many other key monitoring concepts.
Zabbix Certified Professional
Unlock the secrets to automating your monitoring workflows and scaling your Zabbix instance across a distributed infrastructure, while learning how to utilize advanced techniques to get the most out of Zabbix.
Zabbix Certified Expert
The Zabbix Certified Expert course will teach you how to deploy, tune, secure, and upgrade your Zabbix components. The course covers advanced monitoring use cases, covering automated hierarchical resource discovery, application performance monitoring, synthetic browser monitoring, and more. In addition, attendees will gain a full understanding of internal Zabbix processes, their impact on Zabbix performance, and the steps required to tune them in accordance with Zabbix workloads.
Information about the course
| Designed for the product: | Zabbix 8.0 |
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| Group size: | Zabbix Certified Specialist: Up to 12 students; Zabbix Certified Professional: Up to 10 students; Zabbix Certified Expert: Up to 7 students |
| Type of exam: | Zabbix Certified Specialist: 60 min, theoretical; Zabbix Certified Professional: 75 min, theoretical; Zabbix Certified Expert: 120 min, practical + 45 min, theoretical |
| Course prerequisite: | None for Specialist; subsequent prerequisites are met by completing the preceding course in this bundle. |
| Exam requirements: | Professional: Zabbix 8.0 Certified Specialist certificate; Expert: Zabbix 8.0 Certified Professional certificate |
| Previous level: | Zabbix Certified User |
| Course language: | English or Czech — your choice for requested dates |
| Training format: | Online / classroom |
| Course length: | 3 + 3 + 5 DAYS |
| Course price: | 139 900,-€ 5,765$6440 excluding VAT |
Course content
Zabbix Certified Specialist – Day 1
- Zabbix user interface
- Zabbix components and architecture
- Zabbix entities: Hosts
- Zabbix entities: Items
- Historical and trend data
- Data collection intervals
- Agentless ping and port checks
- Making metrics human-readable
Zabbix Certified Specialist – Day 2
- Configuring Zabbix agent passive and active checks
- Zabbix entities: Triggers
- Problem detection
- Configuration management with Templates
- Performing mass configuration updates
- Data transformation with preprocessing
- Performing aggregations and calculations with calculated items
- Bulk data collection with dependent items
- Configuring HTTP checks for web endpoint monitoring
- Defining web scenarios for website monitoring
- SNMP endpoint data collection
- Log monitoring
- Low-level discovery feature overview
- Troubleshooting unsupported items
Zabbix Certified Specialist – Day 3
- Zabbix permission management with User groups and User roles
- Host inventory configuration and management
- Configuring alerting workflows and alert delivery channels
- Defining host maintenance periods
- Built-in reporting features
- Visualization with Zabbix graphs, maps and dashboards
- Zabbix configuration import/export
- Understanding Zabbix item queue
- Zabbix audit log features
Zabbix Certified Professional – Day 1
- Installing and configuring Zabbix components
- Automating Zabbix configuration with Zabbix API
- Deploying Zabbix server in high-availability mode
- Installing and configuring Zabbix proxies
- Configuring Zabbix load balancing with Proxy groups
- Java application monitoring
- Encrypting communication between Zabbix components
- Configuring scheduled reports
Zabbix Certified Professional – Day 2
- Zabbix MCP server
- Configuring, deploying, and tuning Zabbix agent
- Sending custom data with Zabbix sender
- Agentless monitoring with SSH checks
- Automated resource management with low-level discovery
- Calculated items
- VMWare monitoring
- Database monitoring
Zabbix Certified Professional – Day 3
- Automated Zabbix agent host onboarding with Autoregistration
- Host discovery with Zabbix Network discovery features
- Zabbix event correlation and complex event processing features
- Application performance monitoring
- Advanced log monitoring
- Understanding Zabbix item queue
Zabbix Certified Expert – Day 1
- Upgrading Zabbix components
- Compiling Zabbix components from sources
- Tuning database backends for enterprise-grade workloads
- Tuning OS and web server backends for enterprise-grade workloads
Zabbix Certified Expert – Day 2
- Implementing MFA and SAML authentication for Zabbix
- Deploying Zabbix components with Docker containers
- Configuring Elasticsearch and ClickHouse database backends for Zabbix
- Collecting OpenTelemetry data for application monitoring
- Discovering hierarchical resources with nested low-level discovery
Zabbix Certified Expert – Day 3
- Zabbix inter-component communication workflows
- Zabbix database structure
- Extending Zabbix with external checks
- Zabbix JavaScript data collection and preprocessing
- Synthetic browser monitoring
- Business service monitoring features
Zabbix Certified Expert – Day 4
- Zabbix troubleshooting and diagnostics tools
- Zabbix internal components
Zabbix Certified Expert – Day 5
- Creating and importing custom frontend modules
- Data streaming to external systems
- Securing credentials with external vault
- Zabbix Certified Expert exam
Tomáš Heřmánek
CEO & Zabbix Certified TrainerAdditional information
Certificate
- Each course awards an attendance certificate; after passing its exam, you receive the respective Zabbix 8.0 certificate and digital badge.
Certificates and gifts for the course
For all attendees
For passing the exam
Acquired skills and knowledge
Monitor a wide range of components
Start monitoring OS resources, network devices, log files, web applications, and websites.
Configure Zabbix agent data collection
Learn how to configure and start collecting Zabbix agent metrics.
Utilize multiple monitoring techniques
Get hands-on experience with SNMP, Zabbix Agent, web application monitoring, and more.
Prevent alert storms and optimize problem detection
Utilize Zabbix trigger features to configure problem detection for different scenarios.
Establish a streamlined process
Escalate identified problems across users and departments for prompt resolution.
Secure your Zabbix environment
Get an in-depth understanding of Zabbix user group and user role permission logic.
Install and configure a Zabbix instance
Deploy a Zabbix environment with automated partitioning and compression in place.
Implement disaster recovery
Learn how to deploy Zabbix server nodes in high-availability mode.
Encrypt communication
Secure data transfer between Zabbix components using PSK and certificate encryption.
Automatically discover and monitor resources
Including databases, OS-level resources, SNMP, and VMWare metrics.
Scale and distribute your Zabbix environment
Configure and deploy Zabbix proxies and proxy groups.
Detect root causes and deduplicate problems
Create event processing rules to reduce alert noise and enrich detected problems.
Upgrade to the latest Zabbix release
Deploy the latest Zabbix version with minimal downtime for seamless operations.
Automatically discover hierarchical resources
Manage resource hierarchies with Zabbix low-level discovery features.
Tune your Zabbix components
Ensure optimal performance while monitoring tens of thousands of hosts.
Deploy Zabbix in Docker containers
Seamlessly scale and tune your Zabbix components with Zabbix containers.
Integrate Zabbix with LDAP/SAML
Configure enterprise-grade security and deploy MFA for Zabbix.
Configure Zabbix for observability and application monitoring
Collect traces, logs, and metrics and monitor your applications.
Outcomes
Zabbix Certified Specialist – Organizational impact
Understanding a variety of monitoring techniques and protocols is vital to implementing optimal monitoring workflows. Zabbix Certified Specialist attendees will learn how to design and implement multiple monitoring strategies and leverage the full Zabbix data collection and problem detection toolset across a wide range of monitoring endpoints.
Zabbix Certified Specialist – Individual impact
The scope of the course covers not only Zabbix features, but also general monitoring techniques and protocols used across an assortment of different endpoints - from servers and network devices to applications, websites and services. As a result, attendees will be able to choose a viable monitoring approach for different types of monitoring endpoints.
Zabbix Certified Professional – Organizational impact
Being able to scale your monitoring infrastructure and automate monitoring workflows is vital, and by finishing this course, your system administrators will be able to design a monitoring solution that has automation and scalability baked-in.
Zabbix Certified Professional – Individual impact
Attendees will learn the deployment and configuration steps for a variety of Zabbix components, including the Zabbix server, frontend, and proxies. They will also gain an in-depth understanding of Zabbix low-level discovery features, enabling them to automate and optimize metric discovery.
Zabbix Certified Expert – Organizational impact
The goal of the Zabbix Certified Expert course is to provide system administrators with the skills required to fully understand the underlying architecture of Zabbix components and inter-component communication. Attendees will also learn how to design and configure Zabbix environments for a variety of complex use cases, such as application performance monitoring, synthetic browser monitoring, discovery of hierarchical resources, and more.
Zabbix Certified Expert – Individual impact
By completing the final Zabbix core course, attendees will gain an in-depth knowledge of Zabbix - from deploying, configuring, upgrading, and fine-tuning Zabbix components to designing complex data collection and analysis workflows for real-world use cases and implementing enterprise-grade security features for Zabbix environments.