The release of a free and free monitoring system with a completely open source Zabbix 6.0 LTS has taken place. Release 6.0 is classified as a Long Time Support (LTS) release. For users who use non-LTS versions, we recommend switching to the LTS version of the product. Zabbix is ββa universal system for monitoring the performance and availability of servers, engineering and network equipment, applications, databases, virtualization systems, containers, IT services, web services, cloud infrastructure.
The system implements a full cycle from collecting data, processing and transforming it, analyzing this data to detect problems, and ending with storing this data, visualizing and sending alerts using escalation rules. The system also provides flexible options for extending data collection methods and alerts, as well as automation options through a powerful API. A single web interface implements centralized management of monitoring configurations and role-based distribution of access rights to various user groups. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license.
Major improvements in version 6.0 LTS:
- Support for a scalable resource-service model, which includes SLA reports and a widget, alerts on the fact of a change in service status, a flexible system of rights, complex rules for calculating the status of services, mapping problems with services by tags, and scalability to more than 100.000 services
- Support for new widgets "Top hosts", "Item value", "Geo map"
- Monitoring Kubernetes out of the box
- Support for monitoring parameters of SSL and TLS certificates
- A set of machine learning functions for anomaly detection and baseline monitoring trendstl(), baselinewma() and baselinedev()
- Support for loading third-party plugins for Zabbix agent
- Advanced VMWare Monitoring
- Support for text calculated metrics
- Minimization of dependencies between templates, all official templates became flat and without third-party dependencies
- Ability to turn off "escalation cancelled" messages
- Support for saving the monitoring status of files on the agent for highly reliable monitoring of log files
- Ability to update the list of custom metrics without restarting the agent
- Using unique keys in historical tables to reduce data volume
- Macro support to show trigger expression with expanded values
- Support for root-cause analysis including macros for alerts
- Improved security and reliability of monitoring due to:
- support for password complexity policy and dictionary comparison
- high-performance and improved auditlog, including on the Zabbix server side
- options for managing server processes, proxies and agents from the command line
- support for password complexity policy and dictionary comparison
- Improved performance and uptime by:
- support for a reliable and easy-to-use HA Cluster for Zabbix server
- allocation of ODBC pollers to a separate class with the ability to control their number
- performance improvements and reduced memory usage when config syncing to a proxy
- supports proxy configurations up to 16GB
- Other significant improvements:
- utf8mb4 support for MySQL and MariaDB
- Compression support for WEB monitoring
- New API method for clearing history history.clear
- Timeout support for zabbix_sender and zabbix_get utilities
- Support for additional HTTP methods for Web hooks
- Extending existing and supporting new agent-side metrics: agent.variant, system.hostname, docker.container_stats, vmware.hv.sensors.get, vmware.hv.maintenance
- New trigger functions changecount(), rate(), bucket_rate_foreach(), bucket_percentile(), histogram_quantile(), monoinc() and monodec()
- Support for new aggregation functions count, exists_foreach and item_count
- Support for new matching operators for Prometheus != and !~
- Numerous changes to simplify the interface
- Saved and quick filters in "Latest data" and for charts, easier navigation
- New templates and integrations:
- new template solutions for monitoring pfSense, Kubernetes, Oracle, Cisco Meraki, Docker, Zabbix Server Health, VeloCloud, MikroTik, InfluxDB, Travis CI, Github, TiDB, SAF Tehnika, GridGain, Nginx+, jBoss, CloudFlare
- new set of tags for all official templates
- Zabbix offers integration with:
- service desk platforms Jira, Jira ServiceDesk, Redmine, ServiceNow, Zendesk, OTRS, Zammad, Solarwinds Service Desk, TOPdesk, SysAid, iTOP, ManageEngine Service Desk
- user notification systems Slack, Pushover, Discord, Telegram, VictorOps, Microsoft Teams, SINGNL4, Mattermost, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, iLert, Signal, Express.ms, Rocket.Chat
- complete list of over 500 templates and integrations
Official packages are available for current versions of the following platforms:
- Linux distributions RHEL, CentOS, Debian, SuSE, Ubuntu, Raspbian for various architectures
- virtualization systems based on VMWare, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, XEN
- Docker
- agents for all platforms including MacOS and MSI packages for Windows agents
Quick installation of Zabbix for cloud platforms is available: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, IBM/RedHat Cloud, Linode, Yandex Cloud.
To migrate from earlier versions, you only need to install new binaries (server and proxy) and a new interface. Zabbix will automatically perform the upgrade procedure. No new agents need to be installed.
Source: opennet.ru