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Welcome toZabbix Conference
2014The meeting of good friends, again!
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About me
Name: Alexei Vladishev
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @avladishev
Home: www.zabbix.com
Working on Zabbix since 1998
Founder and CEO of Zabbix
Product Manager
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This conference in numbers
189 (+37) registered participants from 28 (+8) countries
Top 5 countries (excluding Latvia)
Norway: 17
Germany: 11
Estonia, Russia: 10
Netherlands: 8
Also: Belarus, Finland, France, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, Belgium, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Japan, Austria, Czech Republic, Israel, Brazil, China, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Spain
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13 people visited all Zabbix Conferences!
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Our sponsors
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Get most of the conference!
• All Zabbix team is here
• Highly experienced Zabbix users
• More than 20 speakers
• Concentrated Zabbix knowledge
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One year at ZabbixProgress report
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End of 2013: Zabbix 2.2 LTS
Also: Zabbix 2.4
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Zabbix Team + 2
32 people total
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Bigger office in Japan
Same location: close to Shinbashi station in Tokyo
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70 (+12) Zabbix Partners
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Training partnership
• 13 (+5) training partners
Brazil: Unirede, Alerta Securities, TSA Quality, Vantage TI (from October)
Belgium: Open-Future B.V.B.A
France: Core IT Project, Finaxys
Germany: Intellitrend (from October)
Italy: Systematica s.r.l., Quadrata di Bellini Dimitri
Japan: NTTCom Technology
Norway: Eltele
• Languages: English, Russian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, German, French, Latvian, Norvegian
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More than 1000 trained
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Zabbix Enterprise Appliance
Capable to monitor up-to 20K of items
Made in Japan. We sell it in Japan only.
ZS-5220 ZP-1220 (new product)
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Largest known Zabbix deployments
Breaking the records
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What is Zabbix performance
VPS - number of values (checks) per second
VPS
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The largest deployments
2000+ Proxies
15K+ VPS 100GB+ → of history collected per day
100K+ of hosts
5M+ of items
1M+ of triggers
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Overview of Zabbix 2.4
What's new
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Unified date & time format
ISO 8601 standard of YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
Everywhere in the GUI except graphs
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Ad-hoc multi-item graphs
Step 1: select items you'd like to display
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Step 2: see the graph
Normal ↔ Stacked
Ad-hoc multi-item graphs
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New macros, broader scope
• User macros {$MACRO} in notifications and commands
• {HOST/PROXY.DESCRIPTION} in notifications and commands also for map labels
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Optional SNMP bulk
Bulk is optional now.
Sad truth:Not all devices respect standards
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Flexible filters for LLD
Multiple filters
User-defined expression
Extreme flexibility!
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Flexible action conditions
User-defined formula
Extreme flexibility!
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Better syntax for triggers
• | , # and & renamed to or, <> and and
• New operators <=, >=, not
• Unified syntax with LLD filters and actions
These changes are not backward compatible!
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Unsupported items
Now we have a clear message:
Invalid second parameter
Cannot obtain file information: /etc/passwd2 does not exist
Timeout while processing item
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More efficient protocols
• No pretty formatting for JSON protocol
• 20-30% less network traffic, faster processing
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API improvements
• Performance is much better for some API calls
• output=refer is not supported anymore
But: no performance improvements for template related operations yet, coming in Zabbix 3.0
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Enhanced Trigger filter
Current problems only / By application / By inventory field
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Clear separation of operations in the front-end
New object
Existing object
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Advanced WEB monitoring
• Custom headers: SOAP, JSON RPC, etc
• Number of retries
• SSL related options: verify host, verify peer, certificate file
• Retrieve only HTTP headers
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Runtime control of log level
• Troubleshooting, remote support
• No restart needed: better availability
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Node based DM was removed
• It didn't guarantee consistency of configuration data
• It didn't scale well enough
• Existing DM will be migrated to standalone
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And more!
• Graphs prototypes in screens
• Automatic discovery of CPUs
• Increased size of host-related fields
• Additional option for XML import
Read Release Notes for a complete list of changes.
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Zabbix 2.4May, 2014
Zabbix 2.6November, 2014
Zabbix 3.0 LTSMay, 2015
Original plan
What's next?
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Zabbix 2.4May, 2014
Zabbix 2.6November, 2014
Zabbix 3.0 LTSMay, 2015
Zabbix 2.4September, 2014
Zabbix 2.6November, 2014x Zabbix 3.0 LTS
May, 2015
Original plan
Adjusted plan
What's next?
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Shall I upgrade to 2.4?
• Limited support time for Zabbix 2.4 (not LTS!)
• Depends if you need new functionality and ready to upgrade
• Estimated upgrade down-time: 30 seconds up-to → 5 minutes depending on size of configuration data
• No historical tables affected
• Node based DM will be automatically converted to standalone setup
• It will take time
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Enjoy the Conference!Thank you.