Let’s be honest. You could spend another October watching webinars at 1.5x speed while answering Slack messages, pretending you’ll “circle back” to that infrastructure project you’ve been meaning to automate since 2023.
Or you could spend two days in Riga at Zabbix Summit 2026, surrounded by hundreds of people who actually get excited about automation, integrations, observability, and that oddly satisfying moment when every dashboard is perfectly green.
If you do, you’ll be among the first to dive into Zabbix 8.0, discover the latest innovations in Zabbix Cloud, and see where the platform is headed next. The choice seems fairly obvious.
It’s not just another tech conference
Some conferences are basically just an expensive delivery service for company-branded merch. Zabbix Summit 2026 isn’t one of them. On October 8-9, 2026, the global Zabbix community returns to Riga for two days packed with technical talks, real-world case studies, product announcements, workshops, networking, and enough ideas to completely rewrite your observability roadmap (well, we can’t promise you’ll finish rewriting it, but you’ll definitely want to start).
This year’s Summit is especially exciting as it marks the arrival of Zabbix 8.0, our next major release, alongside the continued evolution of Zabbix Cloud. That makes it the best place to discover what’s new, what’s next, and how these innovations can simplify and strengthen your observability strategy.
Whether you’re keeping tabs on a handful of servers, an international enterprise, industrial infrastructure, or something delightfully weird, you’ll leave with practical techniques you can put to work.
Start the week at the Zabbix Open House
Before Zabbix Summit 2026 officially begins on October 7, you can drop by the Zabbix offices, meet the people building and supporting the platform you use every day, and get a glimpse of the team behind the technology. Grab a coffee in the kitchen, swap stories with fellow community members, and test your Zabbix knowledge with a fun quiz that might teach even the most seasoned Zabbix fans a few new facts.
It’s a relaxed way to kick off your Summit experience, put faces to names, and start the week surrounded by the people who make the Zabbix community what it is.
Come for Zabbix 8.0, stay because your notebook is full
Zabbix Summit 2026 features one of the biggest moments in recent Zabbix history – an in-depth look at Zabbix 8.0. You’ll hear directly from Zabbix Founder and CEO Alexei Vladishev about the next evolution of the platform, where observability is heading, what’s new under the hood, and how Zabbix continues to expand with solutions like Zabbix Cloud for organizations looking to deploy and scale faster. And that’s only the beginning.
Across the Main Track, Solutions Track, Dev Track, Community Track, and workshops, you’ll learn from engineers, architects, consultants, and customers who have solved problems you’ll probably encounter sooner or later. After all, why should you spend weeks reinventing solutions when someone else is willing to show you theirs?
Zabbix Marketplace – your shortcut to doing more with Zabbix
One of the best things about being part of the Zabbix ecosystem is that you don’t have to build everything from scratch. Zabbix Marketplace brings together a growing collection of integrations, templates, dashboards, and other ready-to-use resources that can help you extend your observability and get value from Zabbix faster.
Zabbix Summit 2026 is the perfect opportunity to go beyond simply downloading a template. Talk to the people behind integrations and community solutions, discover how others are using them in production, and pick up ideas for adapting them to your own environment. In other words, fewer “I’ll build that someday” projects, and more things you can actually try.
Zabbix in your pocket with the Zabbix Mobile app
Observability doesn’t stop being important just because you’ve stepped away from your desk. The Zabbix Mobile app makes it easier to stay connected to your monitoring environment when you’re on the move, whether you’re grabbing coffee between sessions, heading home after the Summit, or simply trying to avoid being permanently attached to your laptop.
It’s another example of how the Zabbix ecosystem is making monitoring accessible when and where you need it. And yes, that means you can leave the Summit with more than just new ideas – you can also take practical Zabbix capabilities with you wherever you go.
Real stories. Real environments. Real “Wait…you used Zabbix for what?”
The best Summit talks aren’t polished, rehearsed sales pitches. They’re stories from people who built something difficult, broke something important, fixed something impossible, and decided to tell everyone exactly how they did it.
Expect practical sessions covering automation, large-scale deployments, MSP environments, integrations, performance optimization, Zabbix Cloud deployments, and plenty of creative techniques that will have you quietly opening a new browser tab entitled “Things I Should Definitely Try.”
Workshops – because there’s a difference between reading documentation and actually doing the thing
If you’re the kind of person who learns by typing instead of watching, you’ll want to spend some time at the Summit workshops. Bring your laptop, break things, fix them, and ask questions. Leave with new skills instead of just good intentions. Workshops are included for Summit attendees and cover hands-on topics led by Zabbix experts, including new capabilities introduced in Zabbix 8.0.
Networking that doesn’t feel like networking
Nobody likes forced small talk over lukewarm coffee. Fortunately, that’s not really the Zabbix Summit vibe. Some of the best ideas at previous Summits started as conversations over coffee. Others probably started much later in the evening over other beverages.
This year’s three networking events (including the Welcome Event, Main Event, and Closing Event) will give you plenty of opportunities to meet the people whose blog posts you’ve bookmarked, whose templates you’ve borrowed (with gratitude), or whose infrastructure stories make yours seem almost reasonable.
And yes, Zabbix Summit 2026 is in Riga
If you’ve never been to Riga, you’re in for a treat. Historic architecture, fantastic food, a thriving tech scene, walkable streets, and (for one week in October) an unusually high concentration of people discussing triggers, proxies, APIs, template inheritance, and everything new in Zabbix 8.0 with genuine enthusiasm. It’s beautiful, it’s (slightly) nerdy, and it’s exactly where the Zabbix community belongs.
Bring your colleagues (they’ll thank you later)
Observability isn’t a one-person job. Bring your team, compare notes during sessions, divide and conquer the agenda, and return home with enough new ideas to keep everyone busy for months. There’s even a group discount for teams of three or more, making it considerably easier to convince your manager this is “a strategic investment in operational excellence.” Which, to be fair, it is!
See you in October!
Whether this is your first Summit or you’ve already collected enough Summit t-shirts to avoid doing laundry for a week, Zabbix Summit 2026 promises fresh ideas, new technology, inspiring people, a comprehensive look at Zabbix 8.0, and the latest developments in Zabbix Cloud. If you want to see where observability is heading, this is where the conversation starts.
So grab your ticket, book the trip, charge your laptop, and prepare to spend two days with people who understand why a perfectly configured dashboard is a thing of beauty.
Register here, and we’ll see you in Riga!
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