What's new in Zabbix 7.4

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Join our "What's new in Zabbix 7.4" webinar and learn how Zabbix 7.4 enables a variety of new use-cases and improves your monitoring workflows with its new low-level discovery, visualization and UX features.

July 3 | 06 PM EET

Discover hierarchical environments using nested low-level discovery

Automate the creation of low-level discovery rules with nested low-level discovery

Discover resources on multiple levels such as cloud services, cluster nodes, applications and underlying resources, network and IoT devices, and much more
New type of low-level discovery prototype entity – discovery prototype
Nested low-level discovery enables users to automatically create low-level discovery rules on a host
Unlimited nesting enables users to create low-level discovery rules on multiple levels
Enables much easier integration of Zabbix with configuration management systems

Discover hierarchical environments using nested low-level discovery

Creating nested low-level discovery rule prototypes

Automate hierarchical host discovery with nested host prototypes

Utilize nested low-level discovery host prototypes to create hierarchical host discovery

Hosts discovered from host prototypes can now use low-level discovery to create hosts of their own
Nested host prototypes are useful when discovering multi-level entities, e.g.: Discover server clusters, where each cluster has a set of individual nodes that also need to be discovered

Creating hierarchical host discovery workflows

Simplify your monitoring with the Host Wizard

Managing hosts in Zabbix is now easier than ever before with the new Host Wizard

The Host Wizard will guide you through all the host creation and configuration steps – from creating a host and assigning templates to installing Zabbix agent on the monitored host and configuring Zabbix server for server-originated checks
Each host creation step and the related configuration parameters are explained by the Host Wizard
Choose between manual host creation or use the Host Wizard if you prefer a guided approach

Simplify your monitoring with the Host Wizard

Selecting a template and following the step-by-step guide to create a host

Visualize information about individual metrics with Item Card widget

Present a detailed overview of your items by utilizing the new Item card widget

Customize the field visibility and order
Dynamically update the displayed item by linking the Item card widget to Item navigator widgets
Display the last collected value and get additional context with a sparkline chart
Display information about the related triggers, interfaces, error messages and more

Visualize information about individual metrics with Item Card widget

Displaying relevant item information in the Item card widget

Extend your network maps with the latest features

Network maps have received various usability improvements enabling easier map management and enabling new network map use cases

Map link and element labels can now be hidden and only be displayed on mouse hover
Map background images can now be scaled proportionally to map dimensions
Map links now support link indicators based on item value thresholds, which allows dynamically changing map link style and color whenever an item exceeds a threshold value
Map element icons can now be ordered when placed on top of one another
Host group map elements will now take into account nested host groups when displaying host group related information

Extend your network maps with the latest features

Defining item value thresholds for link indicators

Create outstanding visualization faster with the latest dashboard improvements

Introducing various dashboard improvements with the goal of making dashboard creation faster and more responsive

Widget configuration changes are now instantly reflected in the widget without having to close the configuration form
New palette color schemes can be used for data sets in graphs, making the individual items more distinguishable
New refreshed layout for the Global view default dashboard

Create outstanding visualization faster with the latest dashboard improvements

Choosing from multiple color palettes

Save time on troubleshooting with inline field validation

To improve overall user experience and catch user input errors on the fly, Zabbix frontend now supports input validation in various parts of the frontend

Inline validation is currently supported for Host, Item, Template and Trigger forms
Inline validation displays clear error messages on the fly for each misconfigured form field

Save time on troubleshooting with inline field validation

Verifying host configuration on the fly with inline form validation

General UI/UX improvements

New UX/UI improvements aim to make your daily Zabbix workflows even more simple

New Notifications section has been added under User settings for customizing notification settings for the current user
All users are now allowed to manage their own media by default. These permissions can now be revoked in user role settings
Preprocessing results can now be copied directly to clipboard by using the Copy to clipboard button

Managing user media settings in the new Notifications section

Templates and integrations

The following webhooks have been refactored and updated:

Jira Service management

Zabbix 7.4 comes pre-packaged with new templates:

Pure Storage FlashArray by HTTP

Azure SQL Managed Instance by HTTP

Azure MSSQL DTU database by HTTP

Azure Backup Jobs by HTTP

Palo Alto PA-440 by HTTP

Juniper MX by NETCONF

Improvements and fixes for Dell by HTTP and SNMP

Additional changes and improvements

Vault secret macros can now be resolved either by the Zabbix server or Zabbix proxy
A new icmppingretry simple check has been added to monitor host responses to ICMP ping with the ability to modify retries
New timestamp tracking history functions have been added
Multiple new macros added for item-value time tracking
Secret text macros now remain masked when referenced indirectly (e.g.: when resolving {ITEM.KEY}, {LLDRULE.KEY} macros and similar use cases)

Added the ability to configure frontend to server communication encryption
The history syncer process title now displays detailed statistics about history syncer transactions for Zabbix server and proxy
The maximum supported version for PHP is now 8.4
It is now possible to manually clear history cache for a specific item by its id with history_cache_clear=target runtime command
Disabled items are now immediately removed from history cache
Zabbix server/proxy automatically logs history cache diagnostic information when history cache is full

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