is there any zabbix server built-in healthcheck endpoint?

[quangtranhong]

I'm on zabbix server 6.4, and wonder, is there any built-in healthcheck endpoint that I could request to for monitoring the zabbix server itself?

[azyla]

Hi,

After installing Zabbix you should already have "Zabbix server" host configured by default which job is to monitor the server itself via Zabbix Agent interface and Internal checks, so make sure you have also Zabbix Agent installed on your machine. You can check it's Graphs related to server health by going to Monitoring -> Hosts and click on Graphs hyperlink in the same row as Zabbix server host.

So basically you can monitor Zabbix Server by setting up Zabbix Agent and configuring it properly (e.g. you can apply "Zabbix server health" template to the host) or there are also Internal checks which are performed by the Zabbix server itself, you can find more information about it in official Zabbix documentation: 8 Internal checks (zabbix.com)

Hope it helps.

Regards,
Arkadiusz

[cyber]

This monitoring itself limps a bit... when your Server dies in some reason, no monitoring is performed and you are still without any notifications etc.. So this question "who watches the watchers?" is still there...

[Semiadmin]

You may monitor Zabbix server by another Zabbix server via templates "Remote Zabbix server health" and a standard Linux.
As an alternative, one good man wrote Zabbix Server Exporter for Prometheus.