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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/

🚀 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/