Zabbix Insights
A new set of trigger functions for long term analysis of trend data to enable alerts like “Average number of transactions increased by 24% in September”.
Make monitoring more secure
Roles for more granular user permissions
It will control what parts of UI are available and will also introduce fine-grained management of the availability of Zabbix API methods.
Support storage of secrets in an external Vault
Zabbix will be able to securely keep all sensitive information (like passwords, SNMP community names, tokens, etc.) in a Vault.
It will make Zabbix compliant to the most strict security standards.
High availability, performance, and scalability
Zabbix UI and API to support load balancing
Clean separation of data collection and trigger processing components
Usability and user experience
Support of predefined filters for Problems and Hosts for instant switching from one view to another
Switching to Yaml as the default format for templates and import/export operations
Selection of timezone for individual users
Versioning of the templates to simplify the deployment of enhanced templates
It could be used for monitoring automation when templates are managed externally, for example, stored in an external Git repository.
Monitoring of IoT devices
Support data collection using modbus and MQTT protocols
Enhanced discovery for efficient monitoring of cloud services
Host prototypes will support host interfaces
Ability to create hosts having no interfaces defined
Make Zabbix more flexible, remove any limitations
Support of digest authentication for HTTP Agent
Zabbix Active Agent to report data to multiple hosts
Out of the box monitoring and alerting
A new set of templates and integrations with alerting and ITSM systems
Zabbix will continue to produce new templates for monitoring of various applications, services, and network devices, also publish new integrations for popular alerting, notification and ITSM systems
Zabbix 5.4
ETA: Q2, 2021
General directions
Synthetic monitoring
Advanced event correlation engine
Ability to perform event filtering, aggregation and root cause analysis
Keep extending Zabbix monitoring, automatic problem detection, alerting and visualization capabilities
Keep making Zabbix as modular and flexible as possible
Make Zabbix truly horizontally scalable monitoring solution ready for the most demanding workloads
Make it simpler for end users by improving UI
Synthetic monitoring
Support of data collection using complex custom logic
A new metric type “Script” will allow multi-step scenarios for data collection and service checks written in JavaScript.
Smart problem and anomaly detection
Baseline monitoring
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!
Enhanced discovery for efficient monitoring of cloud services
Ability to create triggers able to select and analyse data for a given trigger tag
Better management of aggregate items
High availability, performance and scalability
Ability to distribute load of data collection and trigger processing on different physical nodes
Proxies to provide automatic load balancing and HA
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.
API performance improvements to speedup operations with 100K-1M of devices
Out of the box monitoring and alerting
Monitoring of Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform services
Monitoring of Kubernetes clusters
Enhanced visualization
Support of a new set of dashboard widgets
Geographical maps, better visualization of problems and metric data and more.
Replace screens with dashboards
Existing functionality of screens and dashboards will be merged.
Make monitoring more simple
Replace item level application with item tags
Support of API tokens for easier and more secure access to Zabbix API
More advanced Zabbix UI modules
Introduce well-defined API framework for developers of UI modules
Introduce well-defined API framework for developers of dashboard widgets
Introduce dashboard widgets with all logic made in JavaScript
Out of the box monitoring and alerting
New set of templates and integrations with alerting and ITSM systems
Zabbix will continue to produce new templates for monitoring of various applications, services and network devices, also publish new integrations for popular alerting, notification and ITSM systems.