In what has become a highly anticipated annual tradition, Zabbix employees, partners, users, and just plain fans from every corner of the globe showed up in Riga on October 4 and 5 for Zabbix Summit 2024, celebrating a very special open-source monitoring solution that unites us all.
The 12th in-person version of our premier yearly event saw delegates arrive from 48 different countries, and just as every year the atmosphere was like a family reunion, with old friends reconnecting, remote colleagues meeting for the first time in person, and plenty of good vibes all around.
In case you couldn’t manage to make it to Riga and participate, fear not – we’ve put together this post to try to give you a taste of what Zabbix Summit 2024 was all about. As long-time Zabbix veterans say, “There’s nothing like a Zabbix Summit!”
And now, a word from our sponsors
Zabbix Summit 2024 could never have happened without the assistance of our featured sponsors, all part of Zabbix’s official partner network:
• initMAX – Diamond Sponsor
• IntelliTrend – Platinum Sponsor
• IZI-IT – Platinum Sponsor
• Quadrata – Platinum Sponsor
• Allenta – Gold Sponsor
• Metricio – Gold Sponsor
• Docomo Business – Gold Sponsor
• SRA OSS – Silver Sponsor
• Inqbeo – Lunch and coffee break sponsor
Opening doors and minds alike
The day before the Summit, our team welcomed dozens of guests to our office for the traditional pre-Summit Open-Door day. We provided a whiteboard where attendees could leave their thoughts about Zabbix, set up a special Zabbix quiz, and organized a guided tour of the office. Countless questions were asked and answered, endless cups of coffee were poured, and a friendly, welcoming vibe was established that lasted through the end of the Summit and beyond.
Live from the main stage
This year’s Summit hosted 36 speakers who gave 34 speeches. Allowing our audience to ask questions during live Q&A sessions proved so popular last year that there was little doubt we’d continue it this year, as it promotes audience participation and keeps the speakers themselves on their toes. Here are brief recaps of a few of the standout speeches:
Zabbix Cloud and the way forward
Our CEO and Founder Alexei Vladishev kicked off the presentations with a keynote speech that introduced Zabbix Cloud and listed all the features that make it a secure, flexible, and functional alternative to the Zabbix we all know and love. Alexei also gave a short preview of the upcoming Zabbix 7.2 version. Stay tuned!
An intro to Zabbix Cloud
Zabbix Head of Product Dmitrijs Lamberts provided a deeper dive into Zabbix Cloud, sharing detailed information on how Zabbix Cloud works, providing insight into the pricing tiers, and explaining all the features and benefits that have the Zabbix community buzzing with excitement, whetting the audience’s appetite for a live demo he conducted on Day 2 of the Summit.
Using Zabbix to monitor solar energy
Mitsuhiro Ono of the Toyota Motor Corporation and Toshihiro Akamatsu of SRA OSS showed how they achieve distributed monitoring with Zabbix. They also demonstrated a case study that showed exactly how they use their Zabbix dashboard to provide the kind of detailed solar energy oversight that makes the adoption of green power in Japan possible.
Keeping tabs on MariaDB
On Day 2 of the Summit, Anders Karlsson of the MariaDB Corporation discussed how to monitor and manage MariaDB Server Clusters running with the MariaDB MaxScale database proxy. He also demonstrated how MariaDB MaxScale (which also monitors the MariaDB Servers) comes into the picture and touched on topics like managing failover, monitoring database traffic, and routing and load balancing.
Meeting security challenges with Zabbix
Gabriele Minniti and Vincenzo Morrone of Whysecurity demonstrated how the power of the Zabbix API can combine with the APIs of the vendors they work with to create centralized dashbords for controlling the cybersecurity posture of all their customers, no matter what technologies are being used.
The business track
For the first time at Zabbix Summit 2024, we constructed a second stage for slightly less technical, more business-oriented presentations. The speeches delivered there were among the most thought-provoking and fascinating of the Summit, and did much to help us reach new audiences. Here are a few highlights:
An evolving IT monitoring landscape
Zabbix LatAm CEO Luciano Alves gave a well-received talk that focused on the latest trends in the global monitoring market, presenting the results of a survey that took the pulse of over 100 global enterprise organizations.
Zabbix for managed service providers (MSPs)
Andre Morton of AGM Network Consultancy explained why having a flexible and scalable monitoring solution is extremely vital for MSPs and showed how a variety of different features, from authentication mechanisms to automatic remediation and visualization, work together to make Zabbix the perfect monitoring solution for MSPs.
Yes, we still had time for fun!
The Zabbix community works together, innovates together, and when it’s time to let off steam they have fun together at our Summit networking events, of which there were three this year:
- This year’s welcome event was held at the architecturally stunning National Library of Latvia – or as Latvians call it, “The Castle of Light.” Tasty beverages and delicious food were on the menu, as was a guided tour of the library itself.
- The main event was held at Riga’s famed Fantadroms Concert and Event Space, where attendees could dance to live music and enjoy more food and drinks as they caught up with friends and forged valuable connections with their counterparts in other organizations.
- We sent the community on their way with a closing event at the Burzma food hall in Riga’s old town, with a cornucopia of food and music from around the world as well as plenty of opportunities for attendees to relive the Summit, have a few laughs, and wish each other well until next year!
Couldn’t make it this year? No problem!
At this point, you’re probably regretting that you didn’t manage to attend the Summit, but don’t worry – you can recreate the atmosphere in the privacy of your own home or office!
Recordings of both days are available on Zabbix’s YouTube channel:
Streaming – Zabbix Summit 2024 Day 1
Streaming – Zabbix Summit 2024 Day 2
The slides and texts of the presentations are also available for reference and download here as well.
Whether you attended in person or streamed the Summit online, we hope that you had a great time, learned a lot, and are eager to do it all again in 2025!