A new version of the free and completely open source monitoring system Zabbix 6.2 has been introduced. The released release includes performance improvements, flexible work with auto-discovered hosts, detailed process monitoring, a significant improvement in monitoring the VMWare platform, new visualization and data collection tools, an expanded list of integrations and templates, and much more. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license.
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.
Major improvements in version 6.2:
- Major changes:
- Launching an extraordinary collection of metrics from "Latest data".
- Text data in calculated items.
- Conditional checking of active items out of order after restarting Zabbix agent.
- Manage templates, tags, and values ββfor host tags and macros created using auto discovery rules.
- Update passive proxy configuration on demand.
- Manually hiding selected issues until a certain point in time or for a period of time.
- Show the status of active checks in "Monitoring->Hosts".
- Support for template groups.
- New features of the graph widget.
- Launching an extraordinary collection of metrics from "Latest data".
- New features for collecting metrics and detecting issues:
- Collection of data from the Windows registry.
- New monitoring capabilities of the VMWare platform.
- Process monitoring for Linux, Windows and other platforms.
- Performance and accessibility improvements:
- Rapid deployment of configuration changes without a complete re-read of the data.
- Security Improvements:
- Using multiple LDAP servers for user authentication.
- Keeping secrets in CyberArk.
- New means of protection against XSS attacks.
- Getting rid of obsolete functionality and the use of MD5.
- SNI for TLS protocol for communication between different Zabbix components.
- Using multiple LDAP servers for user authentication.
- Improvements aimed at simplifying the work and monitoring settings:
- Displaying text data in the "Top hosts" widget.
- Display the number of data items for each host in "MonitoringβHosts".
- Memorizing filter parameters in the "Monitoring" section.
- Links to the relevant sections of the documentation in each form of the Zabbix interface.
- Digital format displaying the time in the "Clock" widget.
- New look for the global dashboard on initial setup.
- Other improvements:
- hmac() function for webhooks and JS engine.
- Inventory macros {INVENTORY.*} for user scripts.
- Support for trigger dependencies between hosts and templates.
- PHP8 support.
- Availability of official packages for current versions of the following platforms:
- Linux distributions of RHEL, CentOS, Debian, SuSE, Ubuntu, Raspbian, Alma Linux and Rocky Linux on various architectures.
- Virtualization systems based on VMWare, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, XEN.
- dockers.
- Agents for all platforms including MacOS and MSI for Windows agent.
- Availability on the following cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, IBM/RedHat Cloud, Linode, Yandex Cloud
- Integration with service desk platforms Jira, Jira ServiceDesk, Redmine, ServiceNow, Zendesk, OTRS, Zammad, Solarwinds Service Desk, TOPdesk, SysAid, iTOP, ManageEngine Service Desk.
- Integration with user notification systems Slack, Pushover, Discord, Telegram, VictorOps, Microsoft Teams, SINGNL4, Mattermost, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, iLert, Signal, Express.ms, Rocket.Chat.
- New monitoring templates Envoy proxy, HashiCorp Consul, AWS EC2, Proxmox, CockroachDB, TrueNAS, HPE MSA 2040 & 2060, HPE Primera, improved SMART monitoring
To migrate from earlier versions, you only need to install new binaries (server and proxy) and a new interface. Zabbix will automatically perform the database update procedure. No new agents need to be installed.
Source: opennet.ru