Zabbix roadmap

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
Business service monitoring (BSM)
- Make Zabbix scale to 100K of business services Ready
  ZBXNEXT-3022
- Support of alerting on service status changes Ready
  ZBXNEXT-2253
- Tag based mapping between problem events and services Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6674
- Support of complex service status calculation and propagation rules Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6800, ZBXNEXT-6801
- Support of multi-tenancy for Services Ready
  ZBXNEXT-59 Top voted!
- New widgets for service tree and SLA reporting In design
- Root cause analysis Ready
  ZBXNEXT-2406
- Impact analysis
- Import/export for service tree In design
- New graphical visualization of service tree
Machine learning for baseline monitoring
- Baseline monitoring In dev
  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!
- Advanced anomaly detection In dev
  New set of functions for anomaly detection
  Top voted!
High availability, performance and scalability
- Proxies to provide automatic load balancing and HA
  Top voted!
- Native HA setup for Zabbix Server Ready
  Top voted!
- API performance improvements to speedup operations with 1M of devices In dev
  ZBXNEXT-6679, ZBXNEXT-6528
- 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 In dev
- Monitoring of SSL certificate validity and expiration data Ready
  ZBXNEXT-5931 Top voted!
- Add support of new metrics by Zabbix Agent2 Ready
  ZBXNEXT-2923, ZBXNEXT-2921, ZBXNEXT-2765, ZBXNEXT-2083, ZBXNEXT-3191, ZBXNEXT-2755, ZBXNEXT-6501, ZBXNEXT-493, ZBXNEXT-2922, ZBXNEXT-2112, ZBXNEXT-3968
- New templates for monitoring of applications, services and HW devices Ready
- Monitoring of VMWare health, sensor and maintenance status Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6608, ZBXNEXT-6644
- New integrations for alerting and ITSM services Ready
Advanced problem detection
- New trigger functions monoinc() and monodec() Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6601
- Prometheus matching operators Ready
  Support of Prometheus label matching operators != and !~
  ZBXNEXT-6772
- Prometheus histogram functions Ready
  Functions for processing of Prometheus histograms
Advanced visualization and reporting
- Support of stacked graphs In dev
  Support of stacked graphs for dashboard graph widget
- 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 In dev
Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations
- Support of loading of Agent2 plugins at startup In dev
  ZBXNEXT-6688
- Support of timeout parameters for zabbix_get and zabbix_sender Ready
  ZBXNEXT-284
- More reliable log monitoring by keeping state on agent side In dev
  ZBXNEXT-6593
- New aggregate function count() Ready
  ZBXNEXT-6773
- Backlog parameter for Zabbix components Ready
  All Zabbix components will support backlog parameter for fine tuning of network layer
  ZBX-7933
Security related improvements
- Audit log for all user and API operations In dev
  ZBXNEXT-2815, ZBXNEXT-6470 Top voted!
- Password complexity policy for Zabbix UI Ready
  ZBXNEXT-4029
General usability improvements
- Improve usability of saved filter views In dev
  ZBXNEXT-6356
- Suppress "Escalation cancelled" messages In dev
  ZBXNEXT-5578
- Ability to create host and metrics from Monitoring part of UI In dev
  ZBXNEXT-6757, ZBXNEXT-6758
Rebranding
- Support of rebranding Ready
  Zabbix UI will support optional rebranding options

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 to 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 6.0 LTS

Planned release date: Q4 2021

Event correlation and enterprise alarm console

Business service monitoring (BSM)

Machine learning for baseline monitoring

High availability, performance and scalability

Out of the box monitoring and alerting

Advanced problem detection

Advanced visualization and reporting

Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations

Security related improvements

General usability improvements

Rebranding

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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