Self-host Zabbix with Docker

Enterprise-grade network, server, and application monitoring with alerting and trend graphs.

This page describes the Levelrail template for Zabbix (Monitoring). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server.

Project site: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/installation/containers.

Recommended memory: about 1024 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
db	postgres:16-alpine	none	zabbix_db_data -> /var/lib/postgresql/data
zabbix-server	zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest	none	zabbix_server_data -> /var/lib/zabbix
zabbix-web	zabbix/zabbix-web-nginx-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest	8080	none

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
db	POSTGRES_DB	Preset in the template
db	POSTGRES_PASSWORD	Generated at deploy
db	POSTGRES_USER	Preset in the template
zabbix-server	DB_SERVER_HOST	Preset in the template
zabbix-server	POSTGRES_DB	Preset in the template
zabbix-server	POSTGRES_PASSWORD	Generated at deploy
zabbix-server	POSTGRES_USER	Preset in the template
zabbix-web	DB_SERVER_HOST	Preset in the template
zabbix-web	PHP_TZ	Preset in the template
zabbix-web	POSTGRES_DB	Preset in the template
zabbix-web	POSTGRES_PASSWORD	Generated at deploy
zabbix-web	POSTGRES_USER	Preset in the template
zabbix-web	ZBX_SERVER_HOST	Preset in the template

Passwords and keys marked as generated are created for you when the app is deployed and stored as secrets. Values are not shown here.

Deploy Zabbix with Levelrail

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select Zabbix. Review the Compose body and deploy.

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy zabbix --name my-zabbix

See Service template catalog for how templates work, and Getting started if you have not installed Levelrail yet.

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