The Zabbix team is pleased to announce the release of the latest Zabbix major version - Zabbix 6.2. The latest major release focuses on improving the Zabbix configuration management and boosting the performance on large Zabbix instances.
In addition, Zabbix 6.2 improves the flexibility of multiple existing features, thus supporting many new use cases.
Zabbix 6.2 adds features such as:
New templates for:
Zabbix 6.2 introduces a webhook integration for the GLPI IT Asset Management solution. This webhook can be used to forward problems created in Zabbix to the GLPi Assistance section.
Find out more about Zabbix 6.2 by visiting our What's new in Zabbix 6.2 webinar, covering the most important new features and improvements.
Official Zabbix packages are available for:
One-click deployments for the following cloud platforms are coming soon:
You can find the download instructions and download the new version on the download page: https://www.zabbix.com/download
In order to upgrade to Zabbix 6.2, you need to upgrade your repository package and download and install the new Zabbix component packages (Zabbix server, proxy, frontend, and other Zabbix components). When you start the Zabbix server, an automatic database schema upgrade will be performed. Zabbix agents are backward compatible, therefore, it is not required to install the new agent versions. You can perform the agent upgrade at a later time.
An overview of the new features and changes can be found on our What's new in Zabbix 6.2 page:
What's new in Zabbix 6.2.0 documentation section:
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...on/whatsnew620
Take a look at the release notes to see the full list of new features and improvements:
In addition, Zabbix 6.2 improves the flexibility of multiple existing features, thus supporting many new use cases.
Zabbix 6.2 adds features such as:
- Ability to suppress individual problems
- Suppress problems indefinitely or until a specific point in time
- Support of CyberArk vault for secret storage
- Official AWS EC2 template
- discover and monitor AWS EC2 performance statistics, alarms, and AWS EBS volumes
- Ability to synchronize Zabbix proxy configuration directly from Zabbix frontend
- Configuration synchronization is supported by active and passive proxies
- Improved flexibility for hosts discovered from host prototypes
- Link additional templates
- Create and modify user macros
- Populate the host with new tags
- New items for VMware monitoring
- The ability to further customize the hosts discovered by VMware discovery
- Active agent check status can now be tracked from Zabbix frontend
- Incremental configuration synchronization
- Faster configuration synchronization
- Reduced configuration synchronization performance impact
- Newly created items are now checked within a minute after their creation
- Execute now functionality is now available from the Latest data section
- A warning message is now displayed when performing Execute now on items that do not support it
- Templates are now grouped in template groups, instead of host groups
- Improved host and template filtering
- Multiple LDAP servers can now be defined and saved under Authentication - LDAP settings
- Ability to collect Windows registry key values with the new registry monitoring items
- New item for OS process discovery and collecting individual process statistics
- New digital clock widget
- The default Global view dashboard has been updated with the latest Zabbix widgets
- The Graph widget has been further improved
- Added stacked graph support
- Legend now provides additional information
- Added support of simple trigger display
- UI forms now provide direct links to the relevant documentation sections
- Many other improvements and features
New templates for:
- Envoy proxy
- HashiCorp Consul
- AWS EC2 Template
- CockroachDB
- TrueNAS
- HPE MSA 2060 & 2040
- HPE Primera
- The S.M.A.R.T. monitoring template has received improvements
Zabbix 6.2 introduces a webhook integration for the GLPI IT Asset Management solution. This webhook can be used to forward problems created in Zabbix to the GLPi Assistance section.
Find out more about Zabbix 6.2 by visiting our What's new in Zabbix 6.2 webinar, covering the most important new features and improvements.
Official Zabbix packages are available for:
- Linux distributions for different hardware platforms on RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, Raspbian, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux
- Virtualization platforms based on VMWare, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, XEN
- Docker
- Packages and pre-compiled agents for most popular platforms, including macOS and MSI packages for Windows
One-click deployments for the following cloud platforms are coming soon:
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, Linode, Oracle Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift
You can find the download instructions and download the new version on the download page: https://www.zabbix.com/download
In order to upgrade to Zabbix 6.2, you need to upgrade your repository package and download and install the new Zabbix component packages (Zabbix server, proxy, frontend, and other Zabbix components). When you start the Zabbix server, an automatic database schema upgrade will be performed. Zabbix agents are backward compatible, therefore, it is not required to install the new agent versions. You can perform the agent upgrade at a later time.
An overview of the new features and changes can be found on our What's new in Zabbix 6.2 page:
What's new in Zabbix 6.2.0 documentation section:
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...on/whatsnew620
Take a look at the release notes to see the full list of new features and improvements:
