Zabbix Summit 2025 Agenda

Tomas will show how to turn any dial or numeric display into a Zabbix metric—no cloud, no licence, €10 HW. In this session you’ll see the full low-cost pipeline, from 3D-printed mount and lighting tricks to secure onboarding and a ready-made Zabbix template, explore trigger ideas for leakage, over-consumption, or inverter failure, and get hands-on instruction on how to set everything up live in under 30 minutes. You'll walk away with code, STL files, a working demo, and the confidence to add AI vision to any project.

Experience a SaaS observability solution that delivers enterprise-class functionality with effortless infrastructure management.

Richard will present about CANCOM's Zabbix journey and achievements over the past two years. CANCOM, serving multiple sectors in the DACH region, transformed six standalone monitoring applications into a centralized solution using Zabbix, monitoring around 30,000 hosts. The presentation will cover the rebuilding of the Zabbix environment with INITMAX's support, designing an architecture with 162 ZABBIX proxies for over 250 customers, and implementing capacity planning. CANCOM standardized over 600 monitoring templates, trained 53 employees at different certification levels, and developed a specific user concept and working model. Additionally, the integration of Power BI for data visualization and API automation for Zabbix tasks will be highlighted. The concept of "monitoring as a service" offered to customers will also be explained.

Cloud environments, applications, and infrastructures can become quite complex in their monitoring requirements. What to do when a single Zabbix server is not enough to process the data or when the database server reaches its limits? In this presentation Wolfgang will look at such a scenario and possible solutions.

Roman will present a multisite cluster solution based on pacemaker using two-node clusters with an external arbitrator. The system ensures high availability for Zabbix and PostgreSQL services, with automatic failover and database replication between sites, all accessible through a single IP or FQDN.

Vladimir will share experiences, visualization architecture, and approaches when deploying Zabbix into large-scale operations.

A deeper look into trigger configuration best practices: reducing noise in the observed environment, introducing precise problem conditions with the most appropriate functions, minimizing the amount of required configuration, and saving system resources — based on real-life examples. All this while ensuring that problems are detected with maximum precision.

MySQL Enterprise Edition provides a lot of great functionalities on top of what the Community Edition already provides, like thread-pooling, encryption, auditing, HA, and more. But how to monitor those? If you are using Zabbix as your single pane of glass, during Vittorio's presentation you will learn how to monitor MySQL Enterprise features, including what are the key parameters to be converted into items and the behaviors to keep in mind to build alarms, with practical examples. If you rely on MySQL Enterprise and Zabbix for your daily business, you can't afford to miss this!

This presentation shows a practical integration of three open-source tools (Suricata, Zabbix, and MISP) to build an effective approach for monitoring, detecting, and responding to security incidents. By using Suricata for network event capture, Zabbix for orchestration, analysis, and the automatic creation of monitoring objects, and MISP as a threat intelligence validation source, the project demonstrates how it is possible to structure an automated response based on reliable data. The integration enables not only the real-time identification of attackers but also the assessment of incident criticality and the execution of automated actions based on pre-established criteria. The presentation also highlights the power of automation as an essential element for reducing response time and increasing the effectiveness of security operations.

When it comes to advanced network performance monitoring, the challenge lies in tracking an ever-expanding set of objects—like IPs, conversations, and applications. Lionel will show why it's simply not feasible to create individual Zabbix items for every single metric (such as bandwidth, volume, or throughput) for each of these objects, as their number grows exponentially.

Sound can be a powerful complementary data source in specific monitoring scenarios. In this talk, Giedrius shows how to capture audio and turn sound waves into meaningful Zabbix metrics and graphs.

Is your train on time? Any road work or bad accidents near you slowing down your upcoming drive? What's on at the nearby cinema? Janne will show how to use Zabbix as a central hub for showing events from nearby areas so you will immediately know if there's something worth knowing happening near you.

Join Dylan Beattie for a look at the past, present, and future of free software. We’ll talk about the history of the free software movement, from MIT’s Artificial Intelligence lab, to the shareware and public domain movement of the 1980s, to the era of GitHub and package managers. We’ll explore why people choose to give their code away for free in the first place - and what happens if they change their mind. We’ll talk about licences and legalities, we’ll learn about some of the weird and wonderful edge cases that free software has created over the years, and we’ll ask the question: is a truly sustainable open source ecosystem possible, and if so - what might it look like?

Christian will showcase a solution that Inqbeo has built for one of their customers, leveraging the capabilities of Zabbix to act as a metrics data provider for the data streaming platform Apache Kafka. They have created a multi-tenancy capable solution to deliver just the monitoring data belonging to each specific customer out of a central Zabbix monitoring system, covering the monitoring of all systems in a data center, storing them per customer in Prometheus metrics format in S3 buckets, and visualizing them with Grafana for customer-centric dashboards.

Thomas will discuss SAP Moni (E(i)SAP), which is part of a framework called E(i)TM (Enterprise intelligent Task Management). It is a tool for monitoring SAP systems, is developed by LVI AG, and is offered as SaaS. E(i)SAP can monitor SAP RISE as well as customer SAP systems.

Vuk's presentation will start with a short introduction to Atea as a company, delving into how they chose Zabbix and how they use it. Then it will focus on the challenge of downtime-free upgrades of Zabbix instances with a heavy load. Vuk will deep-dive into challenges and then present a simple solution to how they can be solved. The presentation will conlude by analyzing considerations that should be made when using this approach.

As infrastructures grow, Zabbix becomes a central piece of the puzzle — but often escapes scrutiny itself. In this talk, Pascal will explore why auditing Zabbix is not a one-time task, but an ongoing process that deserves as much care as the systems it monitors. He’ll look at how to design and experiment with a lightweight, modular audit framework, using Python and the Zabbix API. Inspired by the principles of continuous integration, this approach uses small, repeatable checks to catch misconfigurations, performance issues, and operational risks early — before they cause real damage. This session is about more than just tools: it’s about adopting a mindset of continuous improvement and resilience. You’ll leave with concrete ideas to make your Zabbix environment easier to maintain, more reliable, and ready for future growth. Whether you manage a few hundred items or thousands, this talk will help you take a step back — and start monitoring your monitoring.

Aldin's presentation showcases how Croatia Telekom uses Zabbix to monitor a complex, large-scale network with over 20,000 devices and 1 million network interfaces. It highlights two key enhancements: an automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tool built on Zabbix 7.0’s cause/symptom problem linking, and a scalable, real-time reporting solution that enables fast browsing and analysis of massive datasets directly in the browser. You'll learn how these solutions improved clarity, reduced response time, and empowered teams with actionable insights — all fully integrated with Zabbix.

In daily Zabbix operations, SCSK handles many tasks, including adding new hosts and checking collected data. Yukihisi's presentation shows how AI can help make these routine jobs easier and save time in Zabbix management.

In this presentation, Harri will briefly introduce XSOAR (Palo Alto Networks' automation tool), explain its capabilities, and demonstrate its integration with Zabbix — specifically, how to ingest an event from Zabbix and automatically trigger a specific playbook, process, or workflow.

Backups don’t protect your network. Truth does. While leading Dell’s global network team, we reduced network outages by over 70% ($20M–$30M/year in estimated impact) across a 20,000+ device estate. The turning point? A mindset shift — from passively monitoring performance to actively validating the real-time state of the infrastructure. Because here’s the uncomfortable reality: Not all risk lives in logs. Not all change happens in config. State shifts silently — from transient routing changes to engineer workarounds made under pressure. And without active observability, these events stay hidden until they cause real business disruption. This session will share how we tackled these gaps using a combination of tools — including custom state monitoring, change drift detection, and extended use of Zabbix in enterprise environments.

As your environment grows, how do you ensure you're monitoring your hosts correctly? Having an inventory source of truth is the first step - the challenge then becomes one of integrating this source of truth into monitoring. Andrew will share some of his experience leveraging Netbox as an inventory source of monitoring truth.

STMicroelectronics is a leading global manufacturer of electronic components for the consumer, automotive, computer peripherals, mobile, and industrial markets, with 14 manufacturing facilities worldwide. In 2019, STMicroelectronics and Quadrata initiated the migration of its monitoring system from HP OpenView to Zabbix at the Agrate (Milan, Italy) plant. To meet the specific customer needs for this project, Quadrata promoted the implementation of Zabbix SIA frontend modules, allowing for greater customization. Following the successful completion of the project at the Agrate plant, in 2024 STMicroelectronics asked Quadrata to start the same migration process at their Catania plant, adding an additional facility at the same site, dedicated to the production of silicon carbide (SiC) wafers and substrates. Currently, two independent Zabbix clusters monitor both Catania plants, using a custom Quadrata unified frontend module for centralized issue management, ServiceNow ticket opening, and manual action scheduling. Independent Zabbix implementation projects are also underway at other STMicroelectronics plants worldwide.

In a large-volume environment, device management implemented via ACS usually works - but what if it doesn't? Joni will present how to use a Zabbix environment to detect issues and implement fixes that can restore ACS connectivity without manual intervention.

Hernandes' presentation showcases a real-world success story from Lunio's client, Desktop, who migrated from IBM Netcool to Zabbix while retaining all business rules. This transition led to licensing cost savings and substantial operational improvements. The solution includes AI-driven event correlation using Zabbix's root cause feature and a custom AI model trained on Zabbix and CMDB data. The model enriches alerts, reduces false positives, and optimizes field operations.

Steve will show how to easily manage what’s inside your Zabbix platform by syncing it with a CMDB to have hosts and applications ready and monitored by Zabbix.

If you’ve ever used Excel and scripts to manage hosts, tags, or templates in Zabbix, you’ll relate to this. In this talk, Sergiu will introduce ZbxWizz, a tool he built while working as a Zabbix admin to handle large-scale changes faster and with fewer errors. ZbxWizz connects directly to the Zabbix API and gives you a spreadsheet-like interface, where you can load data either from Zabbix or from CSV and Excel files, augment the current dataset by pulling extra data through the Zabbix API, use JavaScript transformations on the column level to update name, groups, triggers and more, and push the updated data back to Zabbix safely when ready or export it to CSV for further processing or reporting. Sergiu will also walk you through some real use cases like batch onboarding new hosts from a CSV, reorganizing tags, and creating custom reports.

Gustavo will share a simple trick to centralize functionality in Zabbix, sharing the JavaScript source code between preprocessing steps, media types, and more.

Assembled by longtime Zabbix enthusiasts Patrik Uytterhoeven, Brian van Baekel, and Nathan Liefting, the Zabbix Book will get its own breakout room, where Summit attendees can brainstorm in small groups about how to improve the book with new ideas and topics.

Come and experience firsthand how AI can transform analog data into powerful digital monitoring solutions! In this workshop, we’ll guide you through the complete setup and integration of an IoT device based on ESP32 with a camera module into the Zabbix monitoring system.
During this hands-on workshop, you will:

• Receive free hardware: Each participant gets an ESP32 board, camera module, USB cable, and a 3D-printed counter with holder.
• Learn how to assemble and initialize the device, including firmware flashing and communication testing.
• Integrate the device with Zabbix and create your own monitoring scenarios.
• Use AI models to analyze camera images for monitoring real-world statuses (such as valve open/closed detection, garage occupancy, or water-level monitoring).
• Leave with a fully functional solution that you can expand and integrate into your own projects or environment.

This workshop is ideal for anyone interested in monitoring, IoT, and the practical implementation of AI. No prior experience with Zabbix or ESP32 is required—we’ll walk through everything step by step. Join us and discover how AI turns the analog world into digitally monitored insights!

A practical look into trigger configuration best practices: reducing noise in the provided environment, introducing precise problem conditions with the most appropriate functions, minimizing the amount of required configuration, and saving system resources — all this while managing a real-life example environment.