Monitor home and just about everything with Zabbix and Grafana

DOOM! DOOM! DOOM! Play Doom inside Zabbix! My this years' talk "Widgets Gone Wild" in Zabbix Summit 2026 covered how with weird mind and help of LLMs one can create the weirdest Zabbix custom widgets. One of them is Zabbix Doom, where you can play Doom inside Zabbix and by shooting at the enemies you will then acknowledge a random Zabbix alert.

TLDR; If upgrading to Zabbix 8.0.0rc1 causes your Zabbix UI to completely die to “Component router is not registered” message, try disabling 3rd party modules. 

Zabbix 8.0.0rc1 is out! My What's up, home? Zabbix had been running on 8.0.0beta2 successfully, but during 8.0.0rc1 upgrade it was a close call that this would have been one of those flights where a plane lands but passengers take off. Luckily, the solution was simple. Huge thanks for one of the Zabbix support engineers for pointing me out to correct direction.

Only few more weeks until Zabbix Summit 2026! I'll be a speaker yet again, this time with a five minutes Lightning Talk quickly showing you some VERY different custom Zabbix widgets. Goodbye boring graphs and text tables, welcome Something Completely Else.

I have been very silent on this site due work, family life and the fact I've been building all the custom stuff about which there then will be blog posts. They are already lurking behind the scenes, just waiting for to be posted.

Do you know how often your system is attacked, or what the attackers would do if they could actually ssh into your systems?

Those who work in IT industry, know the drill. The Suits love (or hate) SLA percentages. It's in their genes to be aware of how many seconds or minutes or hours your super important service have been up or down today, this week, this month, or any other time interval. I get all the reasons for that, and I love those statistics too -- at least as long as they show favorable numbers. 

I updated my home Zabbix to Zabbix 8.0.0beta1 a while ago, and now that I've been using it, here's some of the new features I like. In this post, I'll take a glance at some user interface updates that might not be massive but improve the overall experience a lot. In beta1, from new JSON item type to plethora of new templates to performance improvements, many of the bigger new things seem to be under the hood, but I'll skip them for now.

Come on buddies, come to spotlight. Problems view, you first.

I recently switched our car to a used Toyota bz4x. For those who don't know, it's much like Toyota RAV4 but a fully electric version of it. Unlike our old RAV4, bz4x is constantly online. It only means one thing: I'm going to monitor it with my dear Zabbix.

Creating the integration

I cannot take much credit for this integration, as to be honest, much of this integration was actually created by Claude. I did tell it about my Zabbix, the car I have, and pretty soon I had a working integration cobbled together.

Basically Claude created few files for me: