1 Manual structure

2 What is Zabbix

3 Zabbix features

4 Zabbix overview

5 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.0

6 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.1

7 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.2

8 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.3

9 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.4

10 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.5

11 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.6

12 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.7

13 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.8

14 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.9

15 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.10

16 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.11

17 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.12

18 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.13

19 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.14

20 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.15

21 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.16

22 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.17

23 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.18

24 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.19

25 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.20

26 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.21

3 Zabbix processes

1 High availability

2 Agent

4 Proxy

2 Setup from RHEL packages

3 Setup from Debian/Ubuntu packages

Setup from sources

7 Get

8 JS

1 Getting Zabbix

1 PostgreSQL plugin dependencies

2 MongoDB plugin dependencies

2 Best practices for secure Zabbix setup

3 Installation from sources

1 Building Zabbix agent on Windows

2 Building Zabbix agent 2 on Windows

3 Building Zabbix agent on macOS

4 Installation from packages

1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux

2 Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian

3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

4 Windows agent installation from MSI

5 Mac OS agent installation from PKG

6 Unstable releases

5 Installation from containers

6 Web interface installation

7 Upgrade procedure

1 Upgrade from sources

2 Upgrade from packages

1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux

2 Debian/Ubuntu

3 Upgrade from containers

1 Compilation issues

9 Template changes

10 Upgrade notes for 6.4.0

11 Upgrade notes for 6.4.1

12 Upgrade notes for 6.4.2

13 Upgrade notes for 6.4.3

14 Upgrade notes for 6.4.4

15 Upgrade notes for 6.4.5

16 Upgrade notes for 6.4.6

17 Upgrade notes for 6.4.7

18 Upgrade notes for 6.4.8

19 Upgrade notes for 6.4.9

20 Upgrade notes for 6.4.10

21 Upgrade notes for 6.4.11

22 Upgrade notes for 6.4.12

23 Upgrade notes for 6.4.13

24 Upgrade notes for 6.4.14

25 Upgrade notes for 6.4.15

26 Upgrade notes for 6.4.16

27 Upgrade notes for 6.4.17

28 Upgrade notes for 6.4.18

29 Upgrade notes for 6.4.19

30 Upgrade notes for 6.4.20

31 Upgrade notes for 6.4.21

1 Login and configuring user

5 Receiving problem notification

6 Zabbix appliance

7 Configuration

1 Hosts and host groups

1 Configuring a host

2 Configuring a host group

2 Items

1 Creating an item

1 Item key format

2 Custom intervals

2 Item value preprocessing

1 Usage examples

2 Preprocessing details

3 JSONPath functionality

1 Escaping special characters from LLD macro values in JSONPath

4 JavaScript preprocessing

1 Additional JavaScript objects

5 CSV to JSON preprocessing

1 Zabbix agent 2

2 Windows Zabbix agent

1 Dynamic indexes

5 Simple checks

1 VMware monitoring item keys

6 Log file monitoring

7 Calculated items

1 Aggregate calculations

8 Internal checks

10 Telnet checks

11 External checks

12 Trapper items

13 JMX monitoring

14 ODBC monitoring

1 Recommended UnixODBC settings for MySQL

2 Recommended UnixODBC settings for PostgreSQL

3 Recommended UnixODBC settings for Oracle

4 Recommended UnixODBC settings for MSSQL

15 Dependent items

17 Prometheus checks

18 Script items

4 History and trends

5 User parameters

1 Extending Zabbix agents

6 Windows performance counters

8 Value mapping

9 Queue

12 Restricting agent checks

1 Configuring a trigger

2 Trigger expression

3 Trigger dependencies

4 Trigger severity

5 Customizing trigger severities

7 Predictive trigger functions

1 Trigger event generation

2 Other event sources

3 Manual closing of problems

5 Event correlation

1 Trigger-based event correlation

2 Global event correlation

7 Visualization

1 Simple graphs

2 Custom graphs

3 Ad-hoc graphs

4 Aggregation in graphs

1 Configuring a network map

2 Host group elements

3 Link indicators

4 Host dashboards

8 Templates and template groups

1 Configuring a template

2 Configuring a template group

3 Linking/unlinking

9 Templates out of the box

1 Zabbix agent template operation

2 Zabbix agent 2 template operation

3 HTTP template operation

4 IPMI template operation

5 JMX template operation

6 ODBC template operation

7 Standardized templates for network devices

10 Notifications upon events

1 Email

2 SMS

3 Custom alert scripts

1 Webhook script examples

1 Sending message

2 Remote commands

3 Additional operations

4 Using macros in messages

3 Recovery operations

4 Update operations

3 Receiving notification on unsupported items

1 Macro functions

3 User macros with context

4 Secret user macros

5 Low-level discovery macros

6 Expression macros

12 Users and user groups

1 Configuring a user

13 Storage of secrets

1 CyberArk configuration

2 HashiCorp configuration

14 Scheduled reports

1 Export to files

2 Streaming to external systems

8 Service monitoring

2 SLA

3 Setup example

9 Web monitoring

1 Web monitoring items

2 Real-life scenario

10 Virtual machine monitoring

1 VMware monitoring item keys

2 Virtual machine discovery key fields

3 JSON examples for VMware items

4 VMware monitoring setup example

12 Regular expressions

13 Problem acknowledgment

1 Problem suppression

14 Configuration export/import

1 Template groups

4 Hosts

1 Network discovery

1 Configuring a network discovery rule

2 Active agent autoregistration

3 Low-level discovery

1 Item prototypes

2 Trigger prototypes

3 Graph prototypes

4 Host prototypes

5 Notes on low-level discovery

6 Discovery rules

1 Discovery of mounted filesystems

2 Discovery of network interfaces

3 Discovery of CPUs and CPU cores

4 Discovery of SNMP OIDs

5 Discovery of SNMP OIDs (legacy)

6 Discovery of JMX objects

7 Discovery of IPMI sensors

8 Discovery of systemd services

9 Discovery of Windows services

10 Discovery of Windows performance counter instances

11 Discovery using WMI queries

12 Discovery using ODBC SQL queries

13 Discovery using Prometheus data

14 Discovery of block devices

15 Discovery of host interfaces in Zabbix

16 Distributed monitoring

1 Synchronization of monitoring configuration

1 Using certificates

2 Using pre-shared keys

3 Troubleshooting

1 Connection type or permission problems

2 Certificate problems

18 Web interface

1 Menu

2 Frontend sections

1 Cause and symptom problems

2 Hosts

2 Web scenarios

4 Maps

2 SLA

2 Hosts

1 System information

2 Scheduled reports

3 Availability report

4 Triggers top 100

7 Notifications

6 Data collection

8 Users

3 Users

5 Authentication

1 HTTP

2 LDAP

3 SAML

9 Administration

6 Queue

3 User settings

1 Global notifications

2 Sound in browsers

4 Global search

5 Frontend maintenance mode

6 Page parameters

8 Creating your own theme

10 Cookies used by Zabbix

12 Resetting password

19 API

Appendix 1. Reference commentary

Appendix 2. Changes from 6.2 to 6.4

Method reference

apiinfo.version

Action

Alert

Audit log object

Authentication object

authentication.get

authentication.update

Autoregistration

Autoregistration object

autoregistration.get

autoregistration.update

configuration.export

configuration.import

configuration.importcompare

Connector object

connector.create

connector.delete

connector.update

Correlation object

correlation.create

correlation.delete

correlation.get

correlation.update

Dashboard object

Dashboard widget fields

dashboard.create

dashboard.delete

dashboard.update

Discovered host

Discovered host object

Discovered service

Discovered service object

Discovery check

Discovery check object

Discovery rule object

Event

event.acknowledge

Graph

Graph item object

Graph prototype

Graph prototype object

graphprototype.create

graphprototype.delete

graphprototype.get

graphprototype.update

High availability node

High availability node object

History

Host

host.massremove

host.massupdate

Host group object

hostgroup.create

hostgroup.delete

hostgroup.massadd

hostgroup.massremove

hostgroup.massupdate

hostgroup.propagate

hostgroup.update

Host interface object

hostinterface.create

hostinterface.delete

hostinterface.get

hostinterface.massadd

hostinterface.massremove

hostinterface.replacehostinterfaces

hostinterface.update

Host prototype object

hostprototype.create

hostprototype.delete

hostprototype.get

hostprototype.update

Housekeeping object

housekeeping.get

housekeeping.update

Icon map object

Image

Item

Item prototype object

itemprototype.create

itemprototype.delete

itemprototype.get

itemprototype.update

LLD rule object

discoveryrule.copy

discoveryrule.create

discoveryrule.delete

discoveryrule.get

discoveryrule.update

Maintenance object

maintenance.create

maintenance.delete

maintenance.get

maintenance.update

Map

map.get

Media type object

mediatype.create

mediatype.delete

mediatype.update

Module

Problem

Proxy

Regular expression

Regular expression object

Report

Role

SLA

sla.get

Script

script.getscriptsbyevents

script.getscriptsbyhosts

Service

Settings object

settings.update

Task

Template object

template.create

template.delete

template.massadd

template.massremove

template.massupdate

template.update

Template dashboard

Template dashboard object

templatedashboard.create

templatedashboard.delete

templatedashboard.get

templatedashboard.update

Template group object

templategroup.create

templategroup.delete

templategroup.get

templategroup.massadd

templategroup.massremove

templategroup.massupdate

templategroup.propagate

templategroup.update

Token

Trend

Trigger

Trigger prototype

Trigger prototype object

triggerprototype.create

triggerprototype.delete

triggerprototype.get

triggerprototype.update

User

user.checkAuthentication

User directory object

userdirectory.create

userdirectory.delete

userdirectory.get

userdirectory.test

userdirectory.update

User group object

usergroup.create

usergroup.delete

usergroup.update

User macro object

usermacro.create

usermacro.createglobal

usermacro.delete

usermacro.deleteglobal

usermacro.update

usermacro.updateglobal

Value map object

valuemap.create

valuemap.delete

valuemap.update

Web scenario object

httptest.create

httptest.delete

httptest.update

Zabbix API changes in 6.4

1 Loadable modules

1 Building loadable plugins

3 Frontend modules

1 Installation and setup

1 Database creation

2 Repairing Zabbix database character set and collation

3 Database upgrade to primary keys

4 Secure connection to the database

1 MySQL encryption configuration

2 PostgreSQL encryption configuration

5 TimescaleDB setup

6 Elasticsearch setup

7 Distribution-specific notes on setting up Nginx for Zabbix

8 Running agent as root

9 Zabbix agent on Microsoft Windows

10 SAML setup with Microsoft Entra ID

11 SAML setup with Okta

12 SAML setup with OneLogin

13 Oracle database setup

14 Setting up scheduled reports

15 Upgrading to numeric values of extended range

16 Additional frontend languages

2 Process configuration

1 Server-proxy data exchange protocol

2 Zabbix agent protocol

3 Zabbix agent 2 protocol

4 Zabbix agent 2 plugin protocol

5 Zabbix sender protocol

7 Newline-delimited JSON export protocol

4 Items

1 vm.memory.size parameters

2 Passive and active agent checks

3 Trapper items

4 Minimum permission level for Windows agent items

5 Encoding of returned values

6 Large file support

8 Notes on memtype parameter in proc.mem items

9 Notes on selecting processes in proc.mem and proc.num items

10 Implementation details of net.tcp.service and net.udp.service checks

11 proc.get parameters

12 Unreachable/unavailable host interface settings

13 Remote monitoring of Zabbix stats

14 Configuring Kerberos with Zabbix

15 modbus.get parameters

16 Creating custom performance counter names for VMware

17 Return values

5 Supported functions

1 Aggregate functions

1 Foreach functions

2 Bitwise functions

3 Date and time functions

4 History functions

5 Trend functions

6 Mathematical functions

7 Operator functions

8 Prediction functions

9 String functions

1 Supported macros

2 User macros supported by location

8 Time period syntax

9 Command execution

10 Version compatibility

11 Database error handling

12 Zabbix sender dynamic link library for Windows

13 Python library for Zabbix API

14 Service monitoring upgrade

15 Other issues

16 Agent vs agent 2 comparison

17 Escaping examples

22 Quick reference guides

1 Monitor Linux with Zabbix agent

2 Monitor Windows with Zabbix agent

3 Monitor Apache via HTTP

4 Monitor MySQL with Zabbix agent 2

5 Monitor VMware with Zabbix

Developer Center

Modules

Module file structure

Actions

Views

Assets

Register a new module

Widgets

Create a module (tutorial)

Create a widget (tutorial)

Plugins

Create a plugin (tutorial)

Plugin interfaces

Zabbix manpages

zabbix_web_service

Zabbix Manual
1 Introduction
25 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.20

On this page

25 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.20
- TimescaleDB 2.17 support
- PostgreSQL 17 support

25 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.20

TimescaleDB 2.17 support

The maximum supported version for TimescaleDB is now 2.17.X.

PostgreSQL 17 support

PostgreSQL 17 is now supported.

What’s next?

26 What's new in Zabbix 6.4.21