How to Set Up Zabbix Monitoring on Ubuntu Server

Zabbix is the most feature-complete open-source monitoring platform — supporting SNMP, agent-based and agentless monitoring with powerful auto-discovery.

Step 1 — Install Zabbix

wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/6.0/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_6.0-4+ubuntu22.04_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_*.deb
sudo apt update
sudo apt install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-agent -y

Step 2 — Configure Database

CREATE DATABASE zabbix CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;
CREATE USER 'zabbix'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'StrongPassword';
GRANT ALL ON zabbix.* TO 'zabbix'@'localhost';
zcat /usr/share/zabbix-sql-scripts/mysql/server.sql.gz | mysql -u zabbix -p zabbix

Step 3 — Start and Access

sudo systemctl enable zabbix-server zabbix-agent apache2 --now
# Access: http://your-server/zabbix (Admin/zabbix)

Conclusion

Zabbix provides enterprise-grade monitoring at zero cost. Our team deploys Zabbix monitoring for clients managing multiple servers.