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  • DrNick
    Junior Member
    • Aug 2026
    • 13

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    Zabbix History Syncer suddenly spikes and keeps high on IO Usage

    ** Double post; this one can be deleted; please check the newer, more elaborated post here:











    Hey there, hope that someone can help me with some pointers where to look at, i don't have all the log files of the event, so i cant bee that specific.

    We have a small zabbix server running for quite some time, its hosted on a Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS; MySQL ; Zabbix version 7.0.7, Running as VM on a Windows Hyper-V.
    About 140 hosts monitored; about 10.500 active items; with a nvps of about 50.

    The server has been running fine, no problems at all, low io, nice usage, nothing to be concerend about.
    But when i was on holiday, suddenly on Sunday the 19th of July roughly between 17:00 and 19:00 our server IO Spiked and basically never returned to normal again.
    IO Wait times of 50% or more and that without stopping.

    Stopping the zabbix server, didn't lower it instantly; eventually it would drop. Shutting down MySQL; would stop the IO load.

    Code:
    [mysqld]
    user = mysql
    bind-address = 127.0.0.1
    mysqlx-bind-address = 127.0.0.1
    key_buffer_size = 16M
    myisam-recover-options = BACKUP
    innodb_buffer_pool_size=4G
    innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2
    log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log
    slow_query_log = 1
    slow_query_log_file = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
    long_query_time = 2
    max_binlog_size = 100M
    binlog_expire_logs_seconds = 604800
    Code:
    ListenPort=10051
    LogType=file
    LogFile=/var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log
    LogFileSize=5
    DebugLevel=3
    PidFile=/tmp/zabbix_server.pid
    DBHost=localhost
    DBName=zabbix
    DBUser=zabbix
    DBPassword=supersecret
    DBPort=3306
    StartPollers=10
    StartIPMIPollers=0
    StartPreprocessors=6
    StartPollersUnreachable=10
    StartTrappers=6
    StartPingers=30
    StartDiscoverers=1
    StartHTTPPollers=2
    StartTimers=2
    StartEscalators=2
    StartAlerters=2
    StartJavaPollers=0
    StartVMwareCollectors=0
    SNMPTrapperFile=/opt/zabbix/tmp/zabbix_traps.tmp
    StartSNMPTrapper=1
    ListenIP=0.0.0.0
    HousekeepingFrequency=1
    MaxHousekeeperDelete=5000
    CacheSize=64M
    StartDBSyncers=2
    HistoryCacheSize=512M
    HistoryIndexCacheSize=64M
    Timeout=30
    TrapperTimeout=300
    UnreachablePeriod=35
    UnavailableDelay=60
    UnreachableDelay=15
    ExternalScripts=/opt/zabbix/share/zabbix/externalscripts
    FpingLocation=/usr/sbin/fping
    Fping6Location=/usr/sbin/fping6
    LogSlowQueries=3000
    TmpDir=/tmp
    StartProxyPollers=1
    ProxyConfigFrequency=3600
    ProxyDataFrequency=60
    AllowRoot=0
    User=zabbix-srv
    Last edited by DrNick; 05-08-2026, 14:41.
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