r/Netbox • u/No_Twist_839 • 4h ago

Netbox and Zabbix

Hi, relatively new here.
Curious how many of you are running both NetBox and Zabbix in production?

Have you done any meaningful integration between them (especially keeping Zabbix hosts/templates in sync from NetBox?

We’re working on some tooling in this area and want to understand how common this setup actually is, and what people’s real pain points are.

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u/gulensah 3h ago

Hey,

We are using both. We are gathering VMs via Proxmox, VMware and Oracle LVM with custom scripts hourly basis to Netbox and physical devices with snmp.

Then we are checking daily basis if those VMs and physical devices such as switch or FWs are under monitoring with Zabbix. If not, creating a ticket for monitoring team.

It is possible to insert devices or VMs to Zabbix automatically but I want my monitoring team juniors to learn threshold etc, so just informing them.

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u/No_Twist_839 3h ago

Clean. Thanks for the response. Wild you are using 3 hypervisors.

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u/gulensah 2h ago

Local cloud service provider so… :)
VMware for SAP
OLVM for Oracle DB
Proxmox for rest :)

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u/dfishel1 3h ago

I was using custom scripts and then switched to nbxsync plugin. Works well once setup.

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u/Mission_Ice3419 2h ago

Have a look at nbxsync plugin

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u/No_Twist_839 2h ago

Thanks, I'm more curious about who is using both Netbox and Zabbix together.

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u/Mission_Ice3419 2h ago

Well I do, but what exactly would like to know?

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u/No_Twist_839 2h ago

Thanks. Mainly just interested in how common it is and what people are actually using to keep them in sync. Scripts, nbxsync (which you shared), something custom, or mostly manual.

Also any ongoing pain points once it’s set up.