Zabbix Roadmap

Zabbix 4.0

ETA: September, 2018

• Enterprise

  Accessibility

  • High contrast themes for Zabbix Web UI
  • Friendly UI for visually impaired people
  • Zabbix UI ready for assistive technologies
• Enterprise

  More flexible permissions

  • Tag based permissions and alerting
  • Different problem view for different user groups
• Enterprise

  Advanced autoregistration

  • Change role of already registered host
• Enterprise

  Dashboard and UI

  • Kiosk mode for Dashboard and other pages
  • Easy to use time selector
  • Condensed view for problems
  • New graph widget with flexible selection of items
• Enterprise

  Interoperability

  • Elastic as a backend database
  • Real-time export of collected data: history and events
• Enterprise

  Data collection

  • Native support of data collection over HTTP/HTTPs
  • Monitoring of HTTP based APIs
  • Integration with HTTP based agents like Prometheus
• Enterprise

  Performance

  • 20% performance improvements of Zabbix Server and Proxy
  • Faster processing and displaying of problems
• Enterprise

  Distributed monitoring

  • Compression for server-proxy communications
  • Much faster data transfer
  • Lower requirements for network bandwidth
  • IP based validation for all proxy communications
• User experience

  Ease of use

  • Manually execute item check
  • Mark mandatory fields in UI
  • Get rid of Monitoring->Triggers view
  • New filtering options for various views
• User experience

  Extreme flexibility

  • Support of inventory macros in event tags
  • Control behaviour of item units
  • Macros for item preprocessing
• Enterprise

  Advanced work flow for problems

  • Change problem severity manually
  • Optional message and operations when updating problem
  • Search problem by problem name
• Enterprise

  Tag based maintenance

  • Problem tag level maintenance
  • Suppressing of problems by maintenance
• General

  Minor enhancements

  • Improve database down message
  • New agent checks
  • and more!