zabbixsummit2025

This blog post again belongs to topic I spoke about back in Zabbix Summit 2025 -- how do I monitor my nearby environment with Zabbix and how it can help planning my day.

You probably know how annoying it would be to go to train station, only to find out that your train has been cancelled, badly delayed or that you just missed the train for some reason. Zabbix to the rescue!

Let's monitor if

• my train is on time
• if it is not, how badly it is delayed
• or worse, if the train is cancelled

And more.  But how do we even start?

This will start my blog series which I spoke about at the Zabbix Summit 2025 -- how and why I monitor my surroundings with Zabbix. The reason is partly conceptual, partly real, to showcase how Zabbix can potentially help you to make figuring out what's going on near you much easier. Let's dive in!

Where to get the price data?

In Finland, we have this community-driven fuel station price tracking site, polttoaine.net. It has been around since forever, but for my kind of Zabbix use purposes, has several downsides: 

First of all, THANK YOU all the Zabbix employees and summit visitors. Zabbix Summit 2025 was fantastic as always!

I truly did monitor the Zabbix Summit main hall wifi connection quality with my laptop. Results should be taken with a grain of salt, as these were measured with my about ten years old Dell Latitude E7450 laptop with FreeBSD 14.3, so there's potential downgrade of everything thanks to that combo.

How did I monitor the quality?

My FreeBSD runs the following each minute via cron:

Zabbix Summit 2025 is almost here and this is just a quick note about what I am going to do.