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By Dimitri Bellini • Insights

Good morning, everyone! It’s Dimitri Bellini, and welcome back to Quadrata, my channel dedicated to the world of open-source IT. It’s an exciting week because our good friend, Zabbix, has just rolled out a major new version: Zabbix 7.4! After months of hard work from the Zabbix team, this release is packed with features that will change the way we monitor our infrastructure. So, let's dive in together and explore what’s new.

Let's start with what I consider the most mind-bending, "centrifugal" new feature: nested low-level discovery (LLD). Until now, LLD was fantastic for discovering objects like file systems or network interfaces on a host. But we couldn't go deeper. If you discovered a database, you couldn’t then run another discovery *within* that database to find all its tablespaces dynamically.

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By Dimitri Bellini • Insights

Good morning everyone, Dimitri Bellini here, back on my channel Quadrata! Today, we're diving into something truly interesting, a bit experimental, and as always, involving our good friend Zabbix. This exploration comes thanks to a member of the Italian Zabbix community, Matteo Peirone, who reached out on LinkedIn to share a fascinating project he developed. I was immediately intrigued and knew I had to show it to you.

So, what are we talking about? It's called the Zabbix AI MCP Server, and it allows us to instrument operations within Zabbix using artificial intelligence. Let's break down what this means and how it works.

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By Dimitri Bellini • Insights

Good morning, everyone! It's Dimitri Bellini, and welcome back to my channel, Quadrata, where we explore the fascinating world of open source and IT. This week, I'm revisiting a topic that frequently comes up in my work: SNMP monitoring with Zabbix. There have been some significant updates in recent Zabbix versions, especially regarding how SNMP is handled, so I wanted to share a recap and dive into these new features.

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By Dimitri Bellini • Insights

Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to Quadrata! This is Dimitri Bellini, and on this channel, we explore the fascinating world of open source and IT. I'm thrilled you're here, and if you enjoy my content, please give this video a like and subscribe if you haven't already!

I apologize for missing last week; work had me on the move. But I'm back, and with the recent release of Zabbix 7.4, I thought it was the perfect time to revisit a powerful feature: Low-Level Discovery (LLD). There's an interesting new function in 7.4 that I want to discuss, but first, let's get a solid understanding of what LLD is all about.

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By Dimitri Bellini • Insights

Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to Quadrata! This is Dimitri Bellini, and on this channel, we dive into the fascinating world of open source and IT – the stuff I love, and hopefully, you do too. If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing for more insights and stories from this field.

This week, we're returning to a topic I'm really excited about: Vibe Coding. That's my term for using artificial intelligence to help us write code, sometimes with what feels like "punches and kicks" to get the AI to cooperate!

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