One of the new features in Zabbix 7.0 LTS is proxy load balancing. As the documentation says:
Proxy load balancing allows monitoring hosts by a proxy group with automated distribution of hosts between proxies and high proxy availability.
If one proxy from the proxy group goes offline, its hosts will be immediately distributed among other proxies having the least assigned hosts in the group.
One of the features of Zabbix proxy is that it can buffer the collected monitoring data if connectivity to Zabbix server is lost. In this post I will show it happening, using packet capture, or packet analysis.
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.
In the previous blog post, we created a Zabbix Server setup, created several users, a media type, and an action. But today, we will install on a 3rd node the Zabbix Proxy. This Zabbix Proxy will have its database running on the same host, so the “node-3” host has both the MySQL and Zabbix Proxy running.
Zabbix proxies allow you to monitor a remote location, a DMZ, and even use cases as using proxies to ‘convert’ passive checks into active or move some load from your Zabbix server towards the proxies is a common solution.
Network discovery is a good feature to simplify your daily routine on maintaining rapidly changing environment. Active registration is good, but it is limited only to hosts with Zabbix agent, while network discovery does not have any limitations.
Solution for replicating monitoring data between Zabbix servers in a multi-tenant environment motivated by the need to have different third-party integrations in different environments.
Zabbix proxy is more than just a tool for distributed monitoring. It’s hard to run a huge Zabbix installation without proxies. So let them do the dirty job.
Until Zabbix 2.0.7 proxies used a simple algorithm for their configuration synchronization – overwriting the old configuration with a…
