Zabbix 7.0 LTS: Designed for Performance and Scalability
Zabbix LLC is launching its latest major LTS release - Zabbix 7.0, which is designed to bring improved performance and enhanced scalability for enterprise-level companies. Released under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3), this version delivers a wide range of new features and improvements, including synthetic end-user web monitoring, Zabbix proxy high availability and load balancing, major performance and scalability improvements, native multi-factor authentication (MFA) support, new ways to visualize data, and much more. Continue reading for more details.
Synthetic end-user web monitoring
Users can now monitor websites and applications by defining flexible multi-step browser-based scenarios. 7.0 LTS also makes it easy to capture screenshots of the current website state, collect and visualize website performance and availability metrics, extract, monitor, and analyze web application data, and receive alerts related to any discovered issues.
Zabbix proxy high availability and load balancing
Zabbix 7.0 LTS makes it easy to scale a Zabbix environment and ensures 100% availability with automatic proxy load balancing and high availability features, including the ability to assign hosts to load-balanced proxy groups and seamlessly scale a Zabbix environment by deploying additional proxies.
Faster and more efficient Zabbix proxies
Zabbix proxy now fully supports in-memory data storage for collected metrics. Users can choose from Disk, Memory, and Hybrid proxy buffer modes, all of which are ideal for embedded hardware. In addition, memory mode enables the support of edge computing use cases. Users can expect 10-100x better proxy performance by switching to memory or hybrid modes, depending on allocated hardware.
Better data collection speed and scalability
Synchronous poller processes have been replaced with asynchronous pollers, which greatly improves the speed and scalability of metric polling, particularly for agent, SNMP, and HTTP checks. The next metric can now be polled before waiting for a response from a previously requested metric, and up to 1,000 concurrent checks can now be supported per poller process.
Centralized control of data collection timeouts
Centralized control of data collection timeouts enables better support for metrics and custom checks, taking longer data collection time intervals. Data collection timeouts can be defined per item-type and overridden per proxy or on an individual item level. Additionally, timeouts are now fully configurable in the Zabbix GUI or via Zabbix API.
New ways to visualize data
A variety of new dashboard widgets have been introduced, designed to give a more comprehensive overview of monitored metrics and infrastructure. Some of the widgets introduced include: • Honeycomb • Gauge • Pie chart • Top triggers • Item and Host navigators
Dynamic dashboard widget navigation
A new communication framework has also been introduced for dashboard widgets, enabling communication between widgets, allowing a widget to serve as a data source for other widgets, and dynamically updating information displayed in a dashboard widget based on the data source.
Support for enterprise-grade multi-factor authentication
Out-of-the box support of multi-factor authentication enables enterprise-grade security and added flexibility for configuring user authentication methods. Support MFA providers include time-based one-time Password (TOTP) and Duo Universal Prompt authentication.
New templates and integrations
In response to user demand, Zabbix 7.0 LTS comes pre-packaged with a range of new templates for the most popular vendors and cloud providers.
Availability
Zabbix 7.0 LTS is now available for download: www.zabbix.com/download
Discover what's new in Zabbix 7.0 LTS: www.zabbix.com/whats_new_7_0
Explore the Zabbix 7.0 LTS documentation section: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/introduction/whatsnew700
See the full list in the release notes: www.zabbix.com/rn/rn7.0.0
About Zabbix
Established in 2005, Zabbix LLC is a global software development company. The company’s flagship product is Zabbix, an enterprise-class, open-source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track the performance and availability of network servers, devices, services, and other IT resources.
Zabbix LLC also provides a wide range of commercial services such as technical support, Zabbix integration, implementation, and customized development services as well as Zabbix professional training.
The company’s main focus is on a flexible approach to customer needs and the ability to deliver world-class services at affordable prices. Zabbix has over 250 partners around the world, as well as a large portfolio of customers in multiple industries, including several Fortune 500 companies.
Website: www.zabbix.com