Zabbix Summit is a 2-day event full of exciting talks, tricky topics, community solutions, use cases from a wide range of companies and workshops run by the Zabbix Team.
Alexei is the author of Zabbix, an enterprise class open source monitoring solution, and also the founder of Zabbix LLC, the company developing Zabbix.
Discovering and managing hosts with improved Zabbix host prototypes
With the release of Zabbix 6.2, the flexibility of hosts discovered from host prototypes has been greatly improved. Learn how the host prototype improvements can be implemented in your existing host discovery workflows and how you can avoid a lot of menial work by automatically creating hosts based on host prototypes.
Kaspars has more than 15 years of experience as a Network Administrator and more than 10 years of experience in Zabbix. He is highly knowledgeable about networking, SQL based databases (MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle), Windows and Linux server administration. Previously worked in banking sector, administering and monitoring bank network infrastructure.
During the cooperation between Zabbix and Grandage, we constantly explore the needs of domestic users and the market, then share the typical use cases to show how Zabbix supports the top companies, etc,.
Professional with more than 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure management with a focus on data visualization and cybersecurity and more than 10 years of experience with Zabbix. Previously, he worked at a company in the financial technology sector and is currently Zabbix Trainer and Data Protection Officer at Unirede.
A journey through monitoring an Enterprise customer with Zabbix VMWare integration from pre-5.0 to the last 6.2 Zabbix versions.
All the steps from the simple VMWare monitoring that we have seen on Zabbix 5.0 to all the new features and simplifications that you can find on the latest Zabbix version.
No more dual hosts and all the power of Zabbix Agent2 monitoring with VMWare metrics in a single Host view.
Frederic joined H5 audits as an Associate to Manage Sales development and recruit commercial partners in France and internationally. In 2009, he became Sales and Marketing Director for all H5 Appliances solutions range. Since end of 2015, he acts as CEO. H5 growth strategy is focused on improving and developing the monitoring market, developing indirect sales through partners (integrators, distributors) across EMEA.
Zabbix dashboards: A single pane of glass for MSP environments
Properly visualizing the collected data and the state of your infrastructure can add many new layers of observability to your monitored environments. Join us and see how Zabbix visualization features can be used to provide a single pane of glass overview ideal for monitoring MSP client infrastructures.
Karlis is a Zabbix trainer and Technical Support Engineer. Before joining Zabbix, worked as a DBA and System Administrator in financial sector. Has 4+ years of experience working with Zabbix monitoring software.
Zabbix and Ansible, complement each other like wine and cheese
Andrew Nelson
Site Reliability Engineer, USA
Passionate about the B2B Technology industry for 15 years. Extensive knowledge of the B2B AV/VC marketplace along with wide ranging strategic relationships within various verticals.
Specialties: Global Account Management, New Business Development, AV Systems Integration , IT Convergence , Video conferencing & Unified Communication , Managed Services , Man Management.
Steve is an open-source technology consultant, specialized in Zabbix. He is Zabbix Certified Expert and Trainer. He has founded his own company IZI-IT to support enterprises in their efforts of ensuring healthy IT environments and preventing service outages, as well as training projects. Steve is an active Zabbix evangelist who speaks at conferences, organizes meetups in France and also is Certified Zabbix Partner.
Databases and Open Source technology enthusiast. Spent almost ten years working for world-leading technology companies, focusing on many aspects of a technology business, like infrastructure and security aspects of the application layer, but also middleware and web performance. Lastly, his long-standing passion for open-source technology and databases led him to Oracle, working with MySQL, the leading open source database on the market, helping leading customers across Eastern Europe to successfully shape their projects. During his time at MySQL, he has also been presenting at many events around Europe, like OpenSource Day Warsaw, OpenSource Day Lisbon, DevTalks Bucharest, Highload++ Moscow, DevOps Days Kazan, and others.
Setting up Zabbix is easy. Building templates? Sure. custom checks? why not. Let's have fun!
After a few months of fun, you realize your Zabbix instance is a mess. All different kinds of tags names. Inconsistent tag values. Inconsistent item names, update intervals, triggers, host. Now what?! In this presentation, official Zabbix consultant and trainer Nathan Liefting from Opensource ICT Solutions will give you insight into how you can prevent such situations and maintain consistency throughout your Zabbix journey.
My first introduction into Zabbix was back in 2016 when we had to upgrade an existing installation from version 2 to 3. I was working as a Network Engineer at the time and was immediately sold on Zabbix it’s usefulness for network monitoring. Since then I have always worked with Zabbix and in 2020 I went on to become a full-time Zabbix consultant and trainer. Writing books, blog posts and helping out the Zabbix community in various places.
Sergey is pushing the boundaries for Zabbix development all over the world. Responsible for global partner network development, for cooperation and joint projects with software and hardware vendors.
What's up home - monitoring your IoT devices with Zabbix
By day, I am a technical monitoring lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix and do some weird experiments with it.
A very experienced sysadmin/systems engineer grown from basement scale to planet scale. Nowadays I'm part of Forcepoint LLC, doing my part as a Senior Systems Engineer at the global IT division. Not too much running, more thinking. I appreciate that. I am also a certified GIAC GCIH.
At Forcepoint I have been a monitoring technical lead since 2016. Around March 2022 I also started to monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana for fun, doing weird experiments with both, and this escalated quickly to the point that I am now a blogger on official Zabbix blog.
5 Real world examples for Zabbix integrations and extensions
Zabbix is a powerful tool when it comes to network monitoring. In real world projects, This power is often combined with third-party systems or extended with custom modules.
This talk will present examples of frontend and backend extensions and integrations in Big Data applications that are used in practice at Deutsche Telekom and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, among others.
Wolfgang Alper is the CEO of IntelliTrend GmbH, a German IT-Service company specialized in network infrastructure, virtualization and network monitoring. With IntelliTrend GmbH, he had the idea that not only big companies like carriers would need a monitoring of their IT-Infrastucture, but also the smaller ones. So in 2004, he started implementing Zabbix in enterprise environments and has not regretted this decision once. As a Zabbix certified trainer, Wolfgang is specialised in large scale deployments of Zabbix.
Importance of business service monitoring based on real examples
Collecting, aggregating, and analyzing metrics is just the first step in providing reliable business service state overviews. In this speech, we will explore real-life use cases covering the design and implementation of Zabbix business service monitoring features.
Aleksandrs has more than 10 years of experience in IT, providing support on the vast list of services, starting with basic technical support while deploying and administering web hosting services and moving to support of streaming technology equipment, data, optical systems, and network communication systems.Eventually, the wish of providing high-quality support in a constantly evolving environment of Zabbix led to the path of a Support Engineer for Zabbix customers, which was followed by Zabbix Certified Specialist, Professional and Expert certifications, to allow sharing experience and knowledge of Zabbix all around the globe.
Enhancing Zabbix frontend with your own widget modules
You can extend existing functionality in Zabbix with simple UI modules without the need to change the source code of Zabbix. We show you some of our examples of how powerful modules can be, including widgets, popups, new menus, overriding CSS styles, etc...
Tomas works at initMAX s.r.o. and he is a big fan of opensource, that includes Zabbix monitoring solution. He specializes in application servers, automation and monitoring. Over the past ten years, he has been involved in the implementation of several large-scale projects having immense positive impact on customer IT environment.
The presentation aims to explain how the Zabbix Web Modules subsystem is implemented in Zabbix Web UI code hoping that this understanding will make it easier for everybody to write nice and powerful new modules.
+10 years of experience in IT, always working with a strategic focus, translating
business demands into technological solutions. Specialist in Containers and
Observability. I currently work as a Tech Lead at JLCP. Responsible for the execution
of projects in Monitoring and Digital Transformation.
Christian Anton has over 10 years of experience with IT Monitoring, network technologies and Open Source Software. He has also been delivering product trainings for more than 5 years, and has worked as a consultant and pre-sales engineer at several mid-sized and large customers.
Since early 2017, Christian Anton delivers Zabbix trainings in German, English and Spanish.
Keeping hundreds of Windows Zabbix agents in sync across different customers
As a Managed Services Provider (MSP) we are responsible for dozens of customers, with hundreds of Windows Servers. Therefore, we introduced mechanisms, to automatically deploy, configure, and sync Windows Zabbix agents across all these isolated environments. In this process, we leverage a tool set consisting of Azure DevOps, Git, PowerShell, and a publicly available Zabbix agent auto-updater, to provide all our customer's servers with the latest Zabbix agent configuration possible.
Marco Hofmann is an IT-Systems Engineer with 15+ years worth of experience. He works at the german Managed Services Provider ANAXCO GmbH. His priority is the configuration and maintenance of the company’s central Zabbix environment, which is a key component in the fulfillment of the customers' maintenance contracts. He also focuses on designing and configuring Citrix RDSH environments, fully automated with PowerShell.
Using Zabbix to monitor our OpenNebula private cloud infrastructure
The Flemish Department of Environment and Spatial Planning (https://omgeving.vlaanderen.be) takes care of policy-making for spatial planning, environmental and building permits, impact assessments, and environmental regulation enforcement. In 2016 the organization decided to migrate its private cloud infrastructure from VMware to an open source solution, adopting OpenNebula as the new cloud management platform, and Ceph as the underlying object storage system. Nowadays, this infrastructure supports the work of a team of more than 50 developers, the management of a HA dual datacenter setup with two availability zones per datacenter, and the automation of the life cycle of over 2200 virtual machines—including more than 500 deployments per week. In this presentation, we will explain the key role that Zabbix plays in our core data centers as the open source monitoring tool of choice for our corporate private cloud.
Alexey has more than 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and has been working at Zabbix since 2021. Alexey is highly knowledgeable about security architecture, incident response, vulnerability management, and secure software development. Previously worked in oil, banking, and telco sectors in different security positions.
