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.
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
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 Professional
Day 1
- Zabbix upgrade
- Zabbix source code
- Zabbix with MySQL DB
- Zabbix with PostgreSQL DB
- MySQL DB partitioning
- PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB
Day 2
- MySQL and PostgreSQL DB connection encryption
- Internal communication encryption with PSK and Certificates
- Agent 2 named session encryption
- Using custom cipher suites for encryption
- Using Hashicorp andCyberArk vault
- JIT user provisioning with SAML and LDAP
- Multi – factor authentication (MFA)
Day 3
- Graphs
- Network maps
- Dashboards and dashboard widgets
- Zabbix API methods
- Zabbix API output
- Zabbix API filters
- Zabbix API modules
- Zabbix loadable modules
- Zabbix frontend modules
- Zabbix database structure
Day 4
- Zabbix server startup/shutdown behavior
- Data collection internals
- High availability internals
- Configuration syncer internals
- Preprocessing internals
- Low-level discovery internals
- VMware monitoring internals
- Zabbix self-monitoring
- Zabbix tasks
- Event and data processing
- Housekeeper internals
- Proxy communication
Day 5
- Autoregistration internals
- Network discovery internals
- Advanced IT services configuration
- Storing history in Elasticsearch
Zabbix Certified Expert Exam
To be taken:
- Directly after the training ends
Certificates and gifts
For all attendees
Course attendance certificate
For all attendees
Zabbix backpack
For passing the exam
Zabbix 7.0 Certified Expert certificate + digital badge
For passing the exam
Zabbix Expert pin