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Zabbix Certified Expert course

A five-day Zabbix Certified Expert training course is designed for experienced Zabbix users and engineers who are already familiar with the Zabbix platform and wish to take their knowledge to the next level. Participants must already hold a valid Zabbix Certified Specialist certificate to be eligible to participate.

This training dives deep into advanced Zabbix topics, with a strong focus on scalability, high availability, performance tuning, distributed monitoring, automation, and API usage. The course is designed to give participants full mastery over the internal workings of Zabbix, enabling them to design, configure, and maintain complex, enterprise-grade monitoring environments.

The course consists of a combination of lectures and hands-on lab exercises performed in a virtual lab environment provided by our team. You will perform advanced configuration and operational tasks using detailed lab guides. These exercises are tailored to demonstrate key Zabbix features and to solidify expert-level skills through real-world scenarios.

Throughout the duration of the course, you will have unrestricted access to your lab environment, which will remain available for additional practice for 24 hours after the class ends. You will also receive comprehensive course materials, including theory and exercises, and digital copies of the slide decks used during training.

Upon completion of the Zabbix Certified Expert training, participants will have a deep, practical understanding of how Zabbix works under the hood, including how to analyze and resolve performance issues, build scalable environments, utilize the API for automation, and design complex alerting logic.

They will be eligible to take the Zabbix Certified Expert exam, a challenging theoretical and practical test that assesses their ability to apply advanced Zabbix skills. Passing this exam grants the Zabbix Certified Expert title, which is the highest level of Zabbix certification and a globally recognized achievement within the monitoring community.

This training is ideal for senior engineers, architects, and consultants responsible for designing and maintaining large-scale or mission-critical Zabbix environments. Even for experienced users, the course offers new insights, advanced techniques, and best practices that go far beyond daily operations.

 
Products covered Zabbix 8.0
Format Online / Classroom
Group Size Up to 10 students
Duration 5 days
Course prerequisites Zabbix 8.0 Certified Professional exam
Previous level Zabbix Certified Professional


Pricing

We offer these course from all our companies, in local currency.

All courses are priced per attendee, and there is 1 exam included by default.


Euro: €3250

US Dollar: $3900

Pound Sterling: £2800


Please note: all our trainings are scheduled upfront, but only will take place if there are enough applications for a scheduled training!

Acquired skills and knowledge

Tune your Zabbix database

to ensure optimal performance while monitoring tens of thousands of hosts

Upgrade to the latest newly available Zabbix release

with minimal downtime for seamless operations

Encrypt connections

to and from your Zabbix instance using TLS certificate encryption

Automate tasks

like host onboarding/offboarding and configuration updates while integrating Zabbix with external systems using Zabbix API scripts

Secure your most sensitive credentials

by storing them in an external HashiCorp or CyberArk vault

Integrate Zabbix with LDAP/SAML

or configure multi-factor authentication for enterprise-grade security

Outcomes

Organizational impact

The goal of the Zabbix Certified Expert course is to provide system administrators with the skills required to fully understand the underlying architecture of Zabbix components and inter-component communication. This will allow them to fine-tune Zabbix to fit performance, data retention and security requirements of enterprise-grade environments.

Individual impact

By completing the final Zabbix core course, attendees will gain an in-depth knowledge of Zabbix – from deploying, configuring, and fine-tuning Zabbix to working with the Zabbix API and getting hands-on experience with upgrading Zabbix components and implementing enterprise-grade security features for Zabbix components.

Course program - Certified Expert

Day 1
  • Upgrading Zabbix components
  • Compiling Zabbix components from sources
  • Tuning database backends for enterprise-grade workloads
  • Tuning OS and web server backends for enterprise-grade workloads
Day 2
  • Implementing MFA and SAML authentication for Zabbix
  • Deploying Zabbix components with Docker containers
  • Configuring Elasticsearch and ClickHouse database backends for Zabbix
  • Collecting OpenTelemetry data for application monitoring
Day 3
  • Zabbix inter-component communication workflows
  • Zabbix database structure
  • Automation, integration and data collection with Zabbix API
  • Extending Zabbix with external checks
  • Zabbix JavaScript data collection and preprocessing
  • Synthetic browser monitoring
  • Business service monitoring features
Day 4
  • Zabbix troubleshooting and diagnostics tools
  • Zabbix internal components
Day 5
  • Creating and importing custom frontend modules
  • Data streaming to external systems
  • Zabbix configuration export
  • Securing credentials with external vault
Zabbix Certified Expert Exam

To be taken: 

  • Directly after the training ends

Certificates and gifts


For all attendees

Zabbix Certified Expert certificate

Course attendance certificate

For all attendees

Zabbix backpack

Zabbix backpack

For passing the exam

Zabbix Certified Expert certificate

Zabbix 7.0 Certified Expert certificate + digital badge

For passing the exam

Zabbix Certified Expert pin

Zabbix Expert pin

Our upcoming planned trainings

Full schedule here

 
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