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Summary of Zabbix Summit Online 2021, Zabbix 6.0 LTS release date and Zabbix Workshops

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By Arturs Lontons

Now that the Zabbix Summit Online 2021 has concluded, we are thrilled to report we hosted attendees from over 3000 organizations from more than 130 countries all across the globe.

This year, the main focus of the speeches was the upcoming Zabbix 6.0 LTS release, as well as speeches focused on automating Zabbix data collection and configuration, Integrating Zabbix within existing company infrastructures, and migrating from legacy tools to Zabbix. 21 speakers in total presented their use cases and talked about new Zabbix features during the Summit with over 8 hours of content.

Advanced Zabbix API – 5 API use cases to improve your API workflows

November 18, 2021 0Comments 2261Views

By Arturs Lontons

As your monitoring infrastructures evolve, you might hit a point when there’s no avoiding using the Zabbix API. The Zabbix API can be used to automate a particular part of your day-to-day workflow, troubleshoot your monitoring or to simply analyze or get statistics about a specific set of entities.

In this blog post, we will take a look at some of the more advanced API methods and specific method parameters and learn how they can be used to improve your API workflows.

Zabbix 6.0 LTS at Zabbix Summit Online 2021

November 16, 2021 0Comments 2979Views

By Arturs Lontons

With Zabbix Summit Online 2021 just around the corner, it’s time to have a quick overview of the 6.0 LTS features that we can expect to see featured during the event. The Zabbix 6.0 LTS release aims to deliver some of the long-awaited enterprise-level features while also improving the general user experience, performance, scalability, and many other aspects of Zabbix.

Simplifying Zabbix API workflows with named Zabbix API tokens

November 11, 2021 0Comments 1691Views

By Arturs Lontons

Zabbix API enables you to collect any and all information from your Zabbix instance by using a multitude of API methods. You can even utilize Zabbix API calls in your HTTP items. For example, this can be used to monitor the number of particular sets of metrics and visualize their growth over time. With named Zabbix API tokens, such use cases are a lot more simple to implement.

Combining preprocessing with storing only trend data for high-frequency monitoring

November 4, 2021 0Comments 1319Views

By Arturs Lontons

There are many design choices to consider when we build our monitoring environment for high-frequency monitoring. How to minimize performance impact? What are the data retention policies with storage space in mind? What are the available out-of-the-box features to solve these potential problems?

In this blog post, we will discuss when you should use preprocessing and when it is better to use the “Do not keep history” option for your metrics, and what are the pros and cons for both of these approaches.

Keeping your Zabbix templates up to date

October 28, 2021 0Comments 3110Views

By Arturs Lontons

Have you recently updated your Zabbix environment but are still wondering – why haven’t the templates been updated? Where can I obtain the latest official Zabbix templates, and how should I update them? In this blog post, we will discuss why it is vital to keep your templates up to date and how we the template update process looks like.

Extend your Low-level discovery rules with overrides

September 7, 2021 0Comments 3201Views

By Arturs Lontons

Overrides is an often overlooked feature of Low-level discovery that makes the discovery of different entities in your environment so much more flexible. In this blog post, we will take a look at how overrides work and how we can use them to extend our Low-level discovery rules with additional logic.

Deploying and configuring Zabbix 5.4 in a multi-tenant environment

August 10, 2021 0Comments 6972Views

By Arturs Lontons

In this post and the video, we will discuss deploying and configuring Zabbix 5.4 in a multi-tenant environment and how Zabbix is finally ready for real multi-tenant use cases thanks to multiple features.

Scheduled report generation in Zabbix 5.4

July 13, 2021 0Comments 11856Views

By Arturs Lontons

The release of version 5.4 grants Zabbix users the ability to receive scheduled PDF reports in their mailbox, which is a very sought-after feature. This post and the video will cover all-new report-related configuration parameters and walk you through setting up scheduled report generation.

Zabbix proxy performance tuning and troubleshooting

May 4, 2021 0Comments 9074Views

By Arturs Lontons

Most Zabbix users use proxies, and those running medium to large instances might have encountered some performance issues. From this post and the video, you will learn more about the most common troubleshooting steps to resolve any proxy issues and to detect them as sometimes you might be unaware of an ongoing issue, as well as basic performance tuning to prevent such issues in the future.