9 Template changes

This page lists all changes to the stock templates that are shipped with Zabbix.

Upgrading to the latest Zabbix version will not automatically upgrade the templates used. It is suggested to modify the templates in existing installations by downloading the latest templates from the Zabbix Git repository and importing them manually into Zabbix.

If templates with the same names already exist, the Delete missing options should be checked when importing to achieve a clean import. This way, the old items that are no longer in the updated template will be removed (note that it will mean losing history of these old items).

Changes in 7.2.0

Updated templates

• VMware and VMware FQDN templates now automatically suppress all problems if a hypervisor is in maintenance mode. To disable problem suppression, set the {$VMWARE.HYPERVISOR.MAINTENANCE} macro value to 0.

Changes in 7.2.1

New templates

• Juniper MX by SNMP, a template for the Juniper MX Series.

Changes in 7.2.4

New templates

• The Azure by HTTP template set has been supplemented with the template Azure SQL Managed Instance by HTTP.
• Palo Alto PA-440 by HTTP, a template that uses script items to collect metrics using the PAN-OS XML API.

Updated templates

• All Dell HTTP and SNMP templates have been updated with improvements, including fixes for items, macros, and scripts.
• The templates MSSQL by ODBC and MSSQL by Zabbix agent 2 have been updated with filters to include or exclude discovered quorum members by name as well as a service filter that allows filtering by cluster name to exclude empty clusters. Please see Breaking changes for additional information on MSSQL by Zabbix agent 2.

Changes in 7.2.5

New templates

• The Azure by HTTP template set has been supplemented with the template Azure Microsoft SQL DTU Database by HTTP.
• The template set Zabbix server health has been supplemented with the templates Zabbix server health by Zabbix agent, Zabbix server health by Zabbix agent active, and Zabbix proxy health - with Zabbix proxy health by Zabbix agent and Zabbix proxy health by Zabbix agent active, enabling the monitoring of internal Zabbix metrics via Zabbix agent.

Updated templates

• The templates within the VMware and VMware FQDN template sets have been updated with fixes for datastore item prototypes. In the template VMware Guest, an incorrect preprocessing multiplier has been fixed in the item for virtual machine network utilization, and a problem has been fixed in the discovery rule for mounted filesystems.

Changes in 7.2.6

New templates

• Pure Storage FlashArray v1 and v2 by HTTP, a template set for monitoring Pure Storage FlashArray systems.
• Juniper MX by NETCONF, a template for monitoring Juniper MX Series devices using NETCONF.

Updated templates

• MySQL by Zabbix agent, MySQL by Zabbix agent 2, MySQL by Zabbix agent active, MySQL by Zabbix agent 2 active, and MySQL by ODBC have been updated with a fix for the buffer pool efficiency formula.
• In the template MSSQL by ODBC, the item "Get last backup" has been updated to exclude non-existing databases from the query.

Changes in 7.2.7

New templates

• The Azure by HTTP template set has been supplemented with the template Azure Backup Jobs by HTTP.

Updated templates

• PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 has been updated for compatibility with PostgreSQL 17 and now uses the new pg_stat_checkpointer system view for checkpoint statistics (previously pg_stat_bgwriter).

Changes in 7.2.8

Updated templates

• Oracle by ODBC and Oracle by Zabbix agent 2 have been updated to query PDB and tablespace statistics using the container ID instead of the container name.