Roadmap

This page contains an incomplete list of planned functionality that can be updated anytime without prior notice

Zabbix 6.2
Zabbix 6.4
Zabbix 7.0 LTS

Zabbix 6.2

Planned release date: Q2 2022

High availability, performance and scalability
- Instant update of configuration changes In dev
  Zabbix Server will immediately notice configuration changes made by UI or API. No more delays and heavy configuration syncs
  ZBXNEXT-7553, ZBXNEXT-7554 Top voted!
General usability improvements
- Improve usability of saved filter views In dev
  ZBXNEXT-6356
- Introduce links to Zabbix manual from all UI screens Ready
  All parts of the Zabbix user interface will have direct links to the corresponding pages of Zabbix online documentation
  ZBXNEXT-7420
- Display status of active checks In dev
  Zabbix UI will display the status of active checks the same way as it is currently implemented for passive checks
  ZBXNEXT-5088 Top voted!
- Support of Check Now in the Latest data view In dev New
  Ability to force data collection for selected metrics straight from the Latest data view
  ZBXNEXT-4768 Top voted!
- Remember filtering options In dev New
  Filtering options used in the Monitoring will be remembered in user profiles
  ZBXNEXT-7567
- Transition to modal forms Ready New
  ZBXNEXT-7464, ZBXNEXT-7138
Advanced visualization and reporting
- Improve usability of filter views (tabs)
  ZBXNEXT-6356
- Support of stacked graphs In dev
  Support of stacked graphs for dashboard graph widget
  ZBXNEXT-6940
- Digital clock widget In dev
  ZBXNEXT-5771 Top voted!
- Support of text data for the Top Hosts widget Ready
  ZBXNEXT-7472
Security related improvements
- Ability to manage users in LDAP In design
  Support automatic user creation after successful AD, LDAP, or SAML authentication. It will allow remote management of users and their permissions
  ZBXNEXT-276 Top voted!
- Keep all Zabbix secrets in CyberArk Vault Ready
  IN addition to the already supported HashiCorp Vault, Zabbix will support the storage of secrets in CyberArk Vault
  ZBXNEXT-7402
- Reproducible builds of Zabbix Agent2
  Extra security and a faster build process
- Audit log for all user and API operations In dev
  ZBXNEXT-2815, ZBXNEXT-6470 Top voted!
- Support of content security policy for Zabbix UI Ready New
  It is a measure to protect Zabbix UI from XSS attacks
  ZBXNEXT-3692
- Entirely remove support of weak hash algorithms Ready
  MD5 hashes were replaced in Zabbix 5.0 and are no longer used. They must be entirely removed
  ZBXNEXT-7397
- Support of multiple LDAP servers for user authentication In dev New
  Different groups of users can be authorised by different LDAP servers for extra security. Also it may help to migrate users from one LDAP server to another
  ZBXNEXT-2289
Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations
- Support of manual template linkage for discovered hosts
  Add ability to link new templates to discovered hosts manually
  ZBXNEXT-2088 Top voted!
- Support of PHP8 In dev
  Better UI performance and ability to package Zabbix with the latest distros
  ZBXNEXT-7080 Top voted!
- Split host and template groups In dev
  Control of user permissions for hosts and templates independently
  ZBXNEXT-2592
- Support of additional metrics for VMWare monitoring In dev
  ZBXNEXT-2043 Top voted!
- Start collecting data immediately after item creation
  Adjust scheduling so that newly created items will be checked asap
  ZBXNEXT-388 Top voted!
- Support of a new remote command to reload the configuration of a passive proxy Ready
  ZBXNEXT-1580 Top voted!
- Introduce a new metric to discover processes Ready
  It can be used to create better templates with the collection of per-process metrics
  ZBXNEXT-1711 Top voted!
- Support of text data type for calculated items Ready New
  ZBXNEXT-1911 Top voted!
- Ability to link new templates manually or by using API to hosts created by LLD Ready New
  ZBXNEXT-7523, ZBXNEXT-2008 Top voted!
- Ability to add new tags manually or by using API to hosts created by LLD In dev New
  ZBXNEXT-7591 Top voted!
- Support of SNI for TLS used by Zabbix components Ready New
  ZBXNEXT-5839 Top voted!
- Monitoring and discovery of Windows registry data In dev New
  ZBXNEXT-5707 Top voted!
- Ability to modify macros of hosts created by LLD In dev New
  ZBXNEXT-5517 Top voted!
Out of the box monitoring and alerting
- New templates for monitoring of applications, services and HW devices
- New integrations for alerting and ITSM services
- Script items will support new hash functions Ready
  The new hash functions will enable cloud authentication (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.). It will significantly simplify the monitoring of cloud resources natively by Zabbix
  ZBXNEXT-7615, ZBXNEXT-7616
Event correlation and enterprise alarm console
- Ability to suppress selected problems for a period of time In design
  It will be possible to suppress selected problems for some time. It will temporarily remove them from the Problem view and suspend notifications
  ZBXNEXT-721 Top voted!
General directions
- Keep extending Zabbix monitoring, automatic problem detection, alerting and visualization capabilities
- Keep making Zabbix as flexible and modular as possible
- Make it simpler for end users by improving usability of Zabbix UI

Zabbix 6.4

Planned release date: Q4 2022

Make monitoring more simple, removing limitations
- Ability to immediately stop data collection for no longer discovered metrics
  Add a new option to LLD rules to control data collection of no longer discovered metrics
  ZBXNEXT-2020 Top voted!
- Support of graphs in alerts messages
  Generate graphs for use in alert messages of various types
- New trigger function to return a timestamp of the item value
  ZBXNEXT-2045 Top voted!
- Better media types
  Introduce the ability to test disabled media types. Disabled media types will no longer be visible in user profiles. Support of pre-configured media types for Office365, Gmail, etc
Advanced visualization and reporting
- Extended set of widgets to cover more use cases
- Events over time widget In design
- New filtering options for the Top100 triggers report
  Add ability to filter by tags, trigger name, and other criteria
  ZBXNEXT-6974
- Top100 triggers widget
  New widget for management reporting and dashboards
  ZBXNEXT-6973
- Gauge chart widget
- Support of sparkline charts
  Introduce embeddable sparkline chart component for use in single value widget, latest data, and other parts of Zabbix user interface
- Complete transition to vector graphs
  Vector graphs will fully substitute the remaining bitmap visualization
- Pie and donut chart widget
Out of the box monitoring and alerting
- Security and compliance monitoring
Event correlation and enterprise alarm console
- Ability to perform event filtering, de-duplication and aggregation using event preprocessing rules
- Problem view optimised for faster problem resolution and collaborative work
- Ability to receive and process raw events from 3rd party systems
Business service monitoring (BSM)
- Import/export for service tree
- New graphical visualization of service tree
General usability improvements
- Improve usability of existing forms
  All forms of Zabbix user interface will be reviewed for usability and better design to make them simpler and improve general usability
- Introduce control for global search and navigation In design
  A unique control that can be launched by a shortcut from any part of Zabbix UI for global search and fast navigation
- Inline validation of all UI forms In design
  Introduce inline validation of user input and better error messages for all forms
  ZBXNEXT-7410
- Next-generation discovery of services and applications
  Simplify auto-discovery of Zabbix Agents, applications, devices and services for seamless monitoring
End-user Web monitoring
- Support of complex scenarios for monitoring of Web applications and services
High availability, performance and scalability
- Proxies to provide automatic load balancing and HA
  ZBXNEXT-5911 Top voted!
- Scalable history storage
  It will include standard API for storage of history and trend data as well as support of new time-series storage engines.
  ZBXNEXT-714 Top voted!
Distributed monitoring
- Support of multi-DC monitoring scenario with centralised management and reporting
  Top voted!
APM monitoring
- Extend Zabbix to enable APM functionality and tracing
- Bindings for various programming languages (Java, Python, PHP, etc)
- New set of widgets aimed to APM visualization
Log management
- More scalable and easier to use log monitoring
- Ability to gather and analyse all possible information from the logs
- New set of widgets aimed to log monitoring
General directions
- Keep extending Zabbix monitoring, automatic problem detection, alerting and visualization capabilities
- Keep making Zabbix as flexible and modular as possible
- Make it simpler for end users by improving usability of Zabbix UI

Zabbix 7.0 LTS

Planned release date: Q2 2023

Cloud native
- New architecture for horizontal scalability, performance and HA
  Top voted!
Scada
- Scada-like visualisation and user actions
General directions
- Keep extending Zabbix monitoring, automatic problem detection, alerting and visualization capabilities
- Keep making Zabbix as flexible and modular as possible
- Make it simpler for end users by improving usability of Zabbix UI

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