Zabbix 7.2 is out now and available for download! The latest Zabbix major release introduces a range of new visualization features and widgets while adding a variety of updated monitoring features to support new use cases and scenarios. Read more to find out about the latest Zabbix features and improvements.
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Top items widget
The previously deprecated Data overview widget has been converted to the new Top items widget. The Top items widget enables item selection via item patterns. The selected items are then displayed for hosts based on host and host group filters. This means that users are not limited to explicitly selected items or hosts, which enables dynamically matching items in rapidly changing environments.
The widget supports Bar, Indicator, Sparkline, and As-is value visualization as well as defining value thresholds, enabling value highlighting for values exceeding the defined threshold.
Host card widget
The Host card widget adds the ability to display host information on Zabbix dashboards. The widget configuration supports selecting and ordering fields containing a variety of information about the host.
The widget also supports a multi-column layout. Host information can be displayed in 1-3 columns, depending on how the widget is placed on the dashboard.
Sparkline chart
Sparkline charts have been introduced in Zabbix 7.2 as an additional visualization option for existing widgets. The goal of a sparkline chart is to provide additional over-time context when viewing collected values in widgets, such as the Item value widget. Sparkline charts are supported in Top items, Top hosts, and Item value widgets.
NVIDIA GPU monitoring template and Zabbix agent 2 plugin
Starting with Zabbix release 7.2.1, the newly released NVIDIA GPU monitoring template and Zabbix agent 2 plugin will allow agent 2 to automatically discover NVIDIA GPUs on Windows and Linux environments and start monitoring items such as GPU temperature, power usage, memory, frequency, and much more. The list of discovered and supported metrics may vary depending on the GPU model.
NETCONF monitoring with SSH item subsystem support
SSH subsystems are a set of remote commands predefined on the monitored endpoint. A common use case of an SSH subsystem is the NETCONF subsystem, used to manage network device configuration.
Zabbix 7.2 introduces a new parameter for the SSH monitoring item – ssh.run[unique short description,<ip>,<port>,<encoding>,<ssh options>,<subsystem>]
The subsystem parameter is used to specify an SSH subsystem and can be used to execute commands via SSH subsystems such as NETCONF or SFTP.
New and updated macros
- New {*.TIMESTAMP} macros can be used to populate alerts with the UNIXTIME value of problem detection, recovery, and update timestamps.
- The {EVENT.UPDATE.ACTIONJSON} macro resolves to a JSON array containing details of the actions performed during a problem update. This JSON value can be later used in integrations or scripts.
- The {SERVICE.ID} macro resolves to the numeric ID of the service that triggered the action.
- The {HOST.PORT} macro can now be used in the same locations as the {HOST.CONN} macro.
- The new {FUNCTION.VALUE<1-9>} and {FUNCTION.RECOVERY.VALUE<1-9>} macros can be used in expression macros to display a value of the Nth item-based function in the trigger expression. This can be used to display values in map labels or graph names.
VMware monitoring improvements
VMware monitoring has received multiple improvements and fixes in Zabbix 7.2:
- In addition to the previously supported VMware hypervisor discovery workflow, the template VMware Hypervisor can now be manually linked to a stand-alone hypervisor host.
- There is now a new item used to monitor the VMware virtual machine hypervisor maintenance status: vmware.vm.hv.maintenance[url,uuid]
- VMware event collection has been improved by adding the support of pagination. This reduces memory consumption resulting from a large number of collected VMware events.
New and updated templates
Zabbix 7.2 introduces multiple new templates:
- A variety of templates for LAMP stack monitoring by Zabbix agent active
- NVIDIA GPU
- Juniper MX series
- Huawei OceanStor V6 Dorado
- Nutanix Prism Element
- Website certificate by Zabbix agent 2 active
The following existing templates have also received fixes and updates:
- Dell iDrac and PowerEdge updated to use SNMP walk items
- Proxmox VE by HTTP – new disk space usage items/triggers
- MSSQL by ODBC performance counter query fixes
- Linux and Nextcloud – removed unnecessary discard unchanged preprocessing from LLD rules
- Microsoft 365 reports by HTTP description fixes
Additional changes and improvements
Additional changes and improvements introduced in Zabbix 7.2:
- Added support for CP_SPIN CPU state on OpenBSD
- Implemented new column configuration options in the Top hosts widget and support for binary item display
- Added support for LLD Macro {#UNIT.SERVICETYPE} in systemd.unit.discovery for Zabbix agent 2
- Updated maximum supported TimescaleDB version to 2.17
- Updated maximum supported PostgreSQL version to 17
- Added PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes SSH public key algorithm configuration option
- Items now become unsupported when there are no pollers
- Removed support for Oracle DB
- Removed the dependent item count limit
- Added support of logarithmic Y-axis scaling in graphs
- Increased the max number of rows for some widgets, such as Top hosts
- Enabled usage of the mediatype.get method for users with the User role with a limited field scope
- Added the ability to assign override host (Widget, Dashboard) for graph widget data sets
- Implemented automatic selection of the first element of a broadcast-capable widget
- Implemented a new filter in media type list view to filter out media types by their usage in action
Download and install Zabbix 7.2
You can find instructions and download the new version on the download page .
In order to upgrade to Zabbix 7.2 you need to upgrade your repository package and download and install the new Zabbix component packages (Zabbix server, proxy, frontend, and other Zabbix components). When you start the Zabbix server, an automatic database schema upgrade will be performed. Zabbix agents are backward compatible, so installing the new agent versions is not required. Agent upgrade can be performed at a later time.
You can find detailed step-by-step upgrade instructions on our Upgrade procedure page.
Learn about new features and changes introduced in Zabbix 7.2 by visiting the “What’s new in Zabbix 7.2” page .
A detailed description of the new features can be found in the “What’s new” documentation section .
Take a look at the release notes to see the full list of new features and improvements.
