Instant update of configuration changes
In dev Zabbix Server will immediately notice configuration changes made by UI or API. No more delays and heavy configuration syncs ZBXNEXT-7553, ZBXNEXT-7554Top voted!
General usability improvements
Improve usability of saved filter views
In dev ZBXNEXT-6356
Introduce links to Zabbix manual from all UI screens
Ready All parts of the Zabbix user interface will have direct links to the corresponding pages of Zabbix online documentation ZBXNEXT-7420
Display status of active checks
In dev Zabbix UI will display the status of active checks the same way as it is currently implemented for passive checks ZBXNEXT-5088Top voted!
Support of Check Now in the Latest data view
In devNew Ability to force data collection for selected metrics straight from the Latest data view ZBXNEXT-4768Top voted!
Remember filtering options
In devNew Filtering options used in the Monitoring will be remembered in user profiles ZBXNEXT-7567
Improve usability of filter views (tabs)
ZBXNEXT-6356
Support of stacked graphs
In dev Support of stacked graphs for dashboard graph widget ZBXNEXT-6940
Digital clock widget
In dev ZBXNEXT-5771Top voted!
Support of text data for the Top Hosts widget
Ready ZBXNEXT-7472
Security related improvements
Ability to manage users in LDAP
In design Support automatic user creation after successful AD, LDAP, or SAML authentication. It will allow remote management of users and their permissions ZBXNEXT-276Top voted!
Keep all Zabbix secrets in CyberArk Vault
Ready IN addition to the already supported HashiCorp Vault, Zabbix will support the storage of secrets in CyberArk Vault ZBXNEXT-7402
Reproducible builds of Zabbix Agent2
Extra security and a faster build process
Support of content security policy for Zabbix UI
ReadyNew It is a measure to protect Zabbix UI from XSS attacks ZBXNEXT-3692
Entirely remove support of weak hash algorithms
Ready MD5 hashes were replaced in Zabbix 5.0 and are no longer used. They must be entirely removed ZBXNEXT-7397
Support of multiple LDAP servers for user authentication
In devNew Different groups of users can be authorised by different LDAP servers for extra security. Also it may help to migrate users from one LDAP server to another ZBXNEXT-2289
Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations
Support of manual template linkage for discovered hosts
Add ability to link new templates to discovered hosts manually ZBXNEXT-2088Top voted!
Support of PHP8
In dev Better UI performance and ability to package Zabbix with the latest distros ZBXNEXT-7080Top voted!
Split host and template groups
In dev Control of user permissions for hosts and templates independently ZBXNEXT-2592
Support of additional metrics for VMWare monitoring
In dev ZBXNEXT-2043Top voted!
Start collecting data immediately after item creation
Adjust scheduling so that newly created items will be checked asap ZBXNEXT-388Top voted!
Support of a new remote command to reload the configuration of a passive proxy
Ready ZBXNEXT-1580Top voted!
Introduce a new metric to discover processes
Ready It can be used to create better templates with the collection of per-process metrics ZBXNEXT-1711Top voted!
Support of text data type for calculated items
ReadyNew ZBXNEXT-1911Top voted!
Ability to link new templates manually or by using API to hosts created by LLD
ReadyNew ZBXNEXT-7523, ZBXNEXT-2008Top voted!
Ability to add new tags manually or by using API to hosts created by LLD
In devNew ZBXNEXT-7591Top voted!
Support of SNI for TLS used by Zabbix components
ReadyNew ZBXNEXT-5839Top voted!
Monitoring and discovery of Windows registry data
In devNew ZBXNEXT-5707Top voted!
Ability to modify macros of hosts created by LLD
In devNew ZBXNEXT-5517Top voted!
Out of the box monitoring and alerting
New templates for monitoring of applications, services and HW devices
New integrations for alerting and ITSM services
Script items will support new hash functions
Ready The new hash functions will enable cloud authentication (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.). It will significantly simplify the monitoring of cloud resources natively by Zabbix ZBXNEXT-7615, ZBXNEXT-7616
Event correlation and enterprise alarm console
Ability to suppress selected problems for a period of time
In design It will be possible to suppress selected problems for some time. It will temporarily remove them from the Problem view and suspend notifications ZBXNEXT-721Top voted!
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
Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations
Ability to immediately stop data collection for no longer discovered metrics
Add a new option to LLD rules to control data collection of no longer discovered metrics ZBXNEXT-2020Top voted!
Support of graphs in alerts messages
Generate graphs for use in alert messages of various types
New trigger function to return a timestamp of the item value
ZBXNEXT-2045Top voted!
Better media types
Introduce the ability to test disabled media types. Disabled media types will no longer be visible in user profiles. Support of pre-configured media types for Office365, Gmail, etc
Advanced visualization and reporting
Extended set of widgets to cover more use cases
Events over time widget
In design
New filtering options for the Top100 triggers report
Add ability to filter by tags, trigger name, and other criteria ZBXNEXT-6974
Top100 triggers widget
New widget for management reporting and dashboards ZBXNEXT-6973
Gauge chart widget
Support of sparkline charts
Introduce embeddable sparkline chart component for use in single value widget, latest data, and other parts of Zabbix user interface
Complete transition to vector graphs
Vector graphs will fully substitute the remaining bitmap visualization
Pie and donut chart widget
Out of the box monitoring and alerting
Security and compliance monitoring
Event correlation and enterprise alarm console
Ability to perform event filtering, de-duplication and aggregation using event preprocessing rules
Problem view optimised for faster problem resolution and collaborative work
Ability to receive and process raw events from 3rd party systems
Business service monitoring (BSM)
Import/export for service tree
New graphical visualization of service tree
General usability improvements
Improve usability of existing forms
All forms of Zabbix user interface will be reviewed for usability and better design to make them simpler and improve general usability
Introduce control for global search and navigation
In design A unique control that can be launched by a shortcut from any part of Zabbix UI for global search and fast navigation
Inline validation of all UI forms
In design Introduce inline validation of user input and better error messages for all forms ZBXNEXT-7410
Next-generation discovery of services and applications
Simplify auto-discovery of Zabbix Agents, applications, devices and services for seamless monitoring
End-user Web monitoring
Support of complex scenarios for monitoring of Web applications and services
High availability, performance and scalability
Proxies to provide automatic load balancing and HA
ZBXNEXT-5911Top voted!
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-714Top voted!
Distributed monitoring
Support of multi-DC monitoring scenario with centralised management and reporting
Top voted!
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
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