Zabbix is a fantastic open-source application for monitoring your network attached devices. In regard to monitoring Windows endpoints, there are many Windows services that you will not want to see alerts for in your Zabbix dashboard. You can add exclusions to the template so that this excess clutter is not shown. This is a question that is asked a lot in the Zabbix forums, and the answers do not always seem to clearly give a beginner to Zabbix easy to follow steps for this. So, here it is.