Roadmap Zabbix

Zabbix 5.4

Planned release date: Q2 2021

Scheduled PDF report generation
- Ability to schedule generation and sending of PDF reports In dev
  ZBXNEXT-247, ZBXNEXT-730, ZBXNEXT-6478 Top voted!
- Use of user defined Zabbix dashboards for both real-time operational control and as a source of data for PDF reports In dev
  ZBXNEXT-6478
- New user role to control who can manage PDF reports In dev
  ZBXNEXT-6478
Unified syntax for everything
- Unified and much more powerful functional syntax for triggers, aggregated and calculated checks In dev
  It will also include support of new operators and functions, all known limitations of older syntax will be eliminated
  ZBXNEXT-6451
Advanced visualization
- Replace screens with dashboards In dev
  Existing functionality of screens and dashboards will be merged
  ZBXNEXT-6288
- Extended visualization using multi-page dashboards In dev
  ZBXNEXT-6309
- Third level menu for easier navigation Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6295
- Preserve user focus using modal windows for mass-update, import-export Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6293
- Introduce support of negated filtering by tags Ready
  ZBXNEXT-4237
Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations
- Replace item level application with item tags In dev
  It makes data aggregation and filtering much more powerful
  ZBXNEXT-2976 Top voted!
- Global scripts for everything: automatic operations and user actions Ready
  Also scope of use of a global script helps to identify for what operations the script is available
  ZBXNEXT-6368
- Support of JavaScript web hooks for global scripts Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6360
- Move host availability to host interface level Ready
  It makes data collection immune to availability of metrics linked to other interfaces
  ZBXNEXT-4677
- Native XML parsing for JavaScript web hooks and preprocessing Ready
  ZBXNEXT-5518
- VMWare cluster monitoring Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6380
- Support of SAML behind reverse proxy In dev New
  ZBXNEXT-5948
- Support of NTLM authentication options for Script items and Webhooks Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6441
- Support of filtering by presence of LLD macro Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6252
Support of API tokens
- Per-user API tokens for integration with 3rd party systems Ready
  Including global management of API tokens, expiry date and new user role to control who can manage API tokens
  ZBXNEXT-6207
Flat and more simple templates
- Main principle: one device or service - one template In dev
  Get rid of template hierarchy
- Support of value maps on template and host level, no global value maps Ready
  ZBXNEXT-5868
- Support of unique ID for each template element In dev
  Zabbix will show you full diff when importing a new template. This functionality also makes possible updates of any attribute of any template element
  ZBXNEXT-6411
Scalability improvements
- Disconnect pollers from the database Ready
  ZBXNEXT-782
- Introduce trend cache for extra performance of trigger functions working with trend data Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6280
- Introduce graceful startup of Zabbix Server when proxies send too much data Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6503
Security related improvements
- Disable autocomplete for all password fields in Zabbix UI Ready
  ZBXNEXT-2480
- Unified error messages in case of unsuccessful login Ready
  ZBX-5842
- Support of all SNMPv3 encryption protocols Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6427
New templates and integrations
- New official templates for monitoring of: AMQ, Apache Ignite, APC devices, etcd, Gitlab, Hadoop, Hikvision, Jenkins, HashiCorp Vault, Kafka, Morningstar devices, MS Exchange, MS Sharepoint, SAF Tehnika devices, smartctl, Zookeeper and more Ready
- New integrations: Express.ms, iTOP, Rocket.Chat, Signal, VictorOps Ready

Zabbix 6.0 LTS

Planned release date: Q4 2021

Event correlation and enterprise alarm console
- Ability to perform event filtering, de-duplication and aggregation using event preprocessing rules
- Ability to manually hide and suspend problems for a period of time
- Problem view optimised for faster problem resolution and collaborative work
SLA monitoring
- Support of complex SLA calculation rules
- Support of multi-tenancy for Services New
  ZBXNEXT-59 Top voted!
- New widgets for visualization and SLA reports
Machine learning for baseline monitoring
- Baseline monitoring In design
  New algorithms for data processing to allow automatic problem and anomaly detection based on analysis of historical data. No manual setting of thresholds will be needed anymore!
  Top voted!
High availability, performance and scalability
- Proxies to provide automatic load balancing and HA
  Top voted!
- Native HA setup for Zabbix Server
  Top voted!
- API performance improvements to speedup operations with 1M of devices
- Scalable history storage
  It will include standard API for storage of history and trend data as well as support of new time-series storage engines.
  ZBXNEXT-714 Top voted!
Out of the box monitoring and alerting
- Monitoring of Kubernetes clusters
- New templates for monitoring of applications, services and HW devices
- New integrations for alerting and ITSM services
Advanced problem detection
- Extended set of new trigger functions In dev
  New mathematical, statistical, bitwise and text functions for advanced logic in trigger expressions
  ZBXNEXT-552 Top voted!
Advanced visualization and reporting
- Support of graph annotations
  ZBXNEXT-117 Top voted!
- Redesign of Monitoring->Graphs
  ZBX-18093
- Improve usability of filter views (tabs)
  ZBXNEXT-6356
- Advanced host status widget In design
  ZBXNEXT-248 Top voted!
- Data table widget In dev
  ZBXNEXT-248 Top voted!
- Events over time widget In design
- New set of widgets for management and capacity planning reports
  ZBXNEXT-248 Top voted!
- Geographical maps
Security related improvements
- Audit log for all user and API operations In design
  Top voted!
Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations
- Include severity information in real-time export files
  ZBXNEXT-4910
- Support of ranges and regular expressions for value mappings In dev
  ZBXNEXT-114

Zabbix 6.2

Planned release date: Q2 2022

Synthetic monitoring
- Selenium-like monitoring of WEB applications and services
Distributed monitoring
- Support of multi-DC monitoring scenario with centralised management and reporting
  Top voted!
Out of the box monitoring and alerting
- Security and compliance monitoring
- New templates for monitoring of applications, services and HW devices
- New integrations for alerting and ITSM services
Customer portal
- Support of end-user views with “re-branding” functionality
Advanced visualization and reporting
- Extended set of widgets fo cover more use cases
General directions
- Keep extending Zabbix monitoring, automatic problem detection, alerting and visualization capabilities
- Keep making Zabbix as flexible and modular as possible
- Make it simpler for end users by improving usability of Zabbix UI

Zabbix 6.4

Planned release date: Q4 2022

APM monitoring
- Extend Zabbix to enable APM functionality and tracing
- Bindings for various programming languages (Java, Python, PHP, etc)
- New set of widgets aimed to APM visualization
Event correlation and enterprise alarm console
- Ability to receive and process raw events from 3rd party systems
Log management
- More scalable and easier to use log monitoring
- Ability to gather and analyse all possible information from the logs
- New set of widgets aimed to log monitoring
General directions
- Keep extending Zabbix monitoring, automatic problem detection, alerting and visualization capabilities
- Keep making Zabbix as flexible and modular as possible
- Make it simpler for end users by improving usability of Zabbix UI

Zabbix 7.0 LTS

Planned release date: Q2 2023

Cloud native
- New architecture for horizontal scalability, performance and HA
  Top voted!
Scada
- Scada-like visualisation and user actions
General directions
- Keep extending Zabbix monitoring, automatic problem detection, alerting and visualization capabilities
- Keep making Zabbix as flexible and modular as possible
- Make it simpler for end users by improving usability of Zabbix UI

Roadmap

Zabbix 5.4

Planned release date: Q2 2021

Scheduled PDF report generation

Unified syntax for everything

Advanced visualization

Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations

Support of API tokens

Flat and more simple templates

Scalability improvements

Security related improvements

New templates and integrations

Zabbix 6.0 LTS

Planned release date: Q4 2021

Event correlation and enterprise alarm console

SLA monitoring

Machine learning for baseline monitoring

High availability, performance and scalability

Out of the box monitoring and alerting

Advanced problem detection

Advanced visualization and reporting

Security related improvements

Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations

Zabbix 6.2

Planned release date: Q2 2022

Synthetic monitoring

Distributed monitoring

Out of the box monitoring and alerting

Customer portal

Advanced visualization and reporting

General directions

Zabbix 6.4

Planned release date: Q4 2022

APM monitoring

Event correlation and enterprise alarm console

Log management

General directions

Zabbix 7.0 LTS

Planned release date: Q2 2023

Cloud native

Scada

General directions

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