The Zabbix team is pleased to announce the release of the latest Zabbix major version – Zabbix 6.2! The latest version delivers features aimed at improving configuration management and performance on large Zabbix instances as well as extending the flexibility of the existing Zabbix functionality.
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New features
A brief overview of the major new features available with the release of Zabbix 6.2:
- Ability to suppress individual problems
- Suppress problems indefinitely or until a specific point in time
- Support of CyberArk vault for secret storage
- Official AWS EC2 template
- discover and monitor AWS EC2 performance statistics, alarms, and AWS EBS volumes
- Ability to synchronize Zabbix proxy configuration directly from Zabbix frontend
- Configuration synchronization is supported by active and passive proxies
- Improved flexibility for hosts discovered from host prototypes
- Link additional templates
- Create and modify user macros
- Populate the host with new tags
- New items for VMware monitoring
- The ability to further customize the hosts discovered by VMware discovery
- Active agent check status can now be tracked from Zabbix frontend
- Incremental configuration synchronization
- Faster configuration synchronization
- Reduced configuration synchronization performance impact
- Newly created items are now checked within a minute after their creation
- Execute now functionality is now available from the Latest data section
- A warning message is now displayed when performing Execute now on items that do not support it
- Templates are now grouped in template groups, instead of host groups
- Improved host and template filtering
- Multiple LDAP servers can now be defined and saved under Authentication – LDAP settings
- Ability to collect Windows registry key values with the new registry monitoring items
- New item for OS process discovery and collecting individual process statistics
- New digital clock widget
- The default Global view dashboard has been updated with the latest Zabbix widgets
- The Graph widget has been further improved
- Added stacked graph support
- Legend now provides additional information
- Added support of simple trigger display
- UI forms now provide direct links to the relevant documentation sections
- Many other improvements and features
New templates and integrations
Zabbix 6.2 comes pre-packaged with many new templates for the most popular vendors:
- Envoy proxy
- HashiCorp Consul
- AWS EC2 Template
- CockroachDB
- TrueNAS
- HPE MSA 2060 & 2040
- HPE Primera
- The S.M.A.R.T. monitoring template has received improvements
Zabbix 6.2 introduces a webhook integration for the GLPI IT Asset Management solution. This webhook can be used to forward problems created in Zabbix to the GLPi Assistance section
Zabbix 6.2 packages and images
The official Zabbix packages and images are available for:
- Linux distributions for different hardware platforms on RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, Raspbian, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux
- Virtualization platforms based on VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, XEN
- Docker
- Packages and precompiled agents for most popular platforms, including macOS and MSI packages for Windows
You can find the download instructions and download the new version on the Download page: https://www.zabbix.com/download
One-click deployments for the following cloud platforms are coming soon:
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, Linode, Oracle Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift
Upgrading to Zabbix 6.2
In order to upgrade to Zabbix 6.2, 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; therefore, it is not required to install the new agent versions. You can do it at a later time if needed.
If you’re using the official Docker container images – simply deploy a new set of containers for your Zabbix components. Once the Zabbix server container connects to the backend database, the database upgrade will be performed automatically.
You can find step-by-step instructions for the upgrade process to Zabbix 6.2 in the Zabbix documentation.
Join the webinar
If you wish to learn more about the Zabbix 6.2 features and improvements, we invite you to join our What’s new in Zabbix 6.2 public webinar.
During the webinar, you will get the opportunity to:
- Learn about the Zabbix 6.2 features and improvements
- See the latest Zabbix templates and integrations
- Participate in a Q&A session with Zabbix founder and CEO Alexei Vladishev
- Discuss the latest Zabbix version with Zabbix community and Zabbix team members
- Anyone can sign up and attend the webinar at absolutely no cost
Don’t hesitate and sign up for the webinar now!
