Triggers, calculated and aggregated items in Zabbix 5.4

In earlier Zabbix versions, we had three categories of things we could manage inside the instance — triggers, calculated items, and aggregated items. Each of them had its own syntax, so we could not be sure what syntax to use in a certain case. That’s why we introduced the unified syntax for every category inside the monitoring tool that will ease up the documentation task and the configuration process. To appreciate the innovation, we need to recap these three categories in Zabbix.

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What’s new in Zabbix 5.4

Zabbix 5.4.0 released on May 17, 2021 — a non-LTS release that will be supported only for 7-8 months, has already received a lot of attention from our users, our community, and our customers due to a number of very significant and long-anticipated improvements. Zabbix 5.4.0 release comes with scheduled PDF report generation, robust problem detection, advanced data aggregation, and other significant improvements.

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