Rihards Olups has worked in the IT sector for more than 15 years, and in 2009 he joined Zabbix. He has had a chance to work with various systems, and most of that time has been spent with open source solutions. Exposure to Zabbix, one of the leading open source enterprise class monitoring solutions, was with the first public releases back in 2001, which has allowed to gain practical knowledge on the subject. Zabbix Conference 2015

1. 3.0

2. Sorry
ZBXNEXT-473

3. 3.0
...but instead

4. 3.0
Cleanup
Maintenance
Collect, process
Frontend usability
LLD
Bigstuff

5. Cleanup

6. Cleanup
TCP support for DNS items
net.dns.record[10.11.12.13,zabbix.com,,,,tcp]

7. Cleanup
Some API love
{
"usrgrpid": "7",
"name": "Zabbix administrators",
"rights": [
{
"permission": "3",
"id": "2"
}
]
}

8. Cleanup
Some LLD love

9. Cleanup
XML versioning
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<zabbix_export>
<version>2.0</version>
<date>2013-11-12T16:13:38Z</date>
<groups>
<group>
<name>Templates</name>
</group>
</groups>
<templates>
<template>
<template>Template App Zabbix Proxy</template>

10. Cleanup
Get ready for the future
2001:0db8:0000:0042:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
+

11. Cleanup
General frontend cleanup
MVC
More POST instead of GET
Less SID

12. Cleanup
Inventorise the inventory
Default host inventory mode
Changing it via discovery actions

13. Maintenance

14. Maintenance
Add and overadd
● Easier modifications
● Survive the upgrades

15. Maintenance
Execute
$ zabbix_server
--runtime-control
housekeeper_execute

16. Collect, process

17. Collect, process
Memory monitoring
proc.mem[,,,,<memtype>]
– VmSize?
– VmRSS?
– VmData

18. Collect, process
Logfile monitoring
Better performance
More reliable

19. Collect, process
Per-process CPU usage
proc.cpu.util
[<name>,<user>,<type>,<cmdline>,<mode>,<zone>]

20. Collect, process
Crontab
m0-59 - every minute
h9-17/2 - every 2 hours starting with 9:00
m0,30 or m/30 - hourly at hh:00 and hh:30
m/5 - every five minutes

21. Collect, process
Percentile
percentile(1h,,95)
– In triggers
– In calculated items

22. Frontend usability

23. NEW DESIGN

24. Frontend usability
Filter the top 100
Host/host group
Severity
Specific time period

25. Frontend usability
Improved dashboard

26. Frontend usability
Resolve to what?

27. Frontend usability
Sooo functional

28. Frontend usability
Better event acknowledging

29. Frontend usability
Happier users
Maps, screens, slideshows:
– Users can create them
– And share them

30. Frontend usability
Smaller things
More macros in trigger URL (HOST.IP, usermacros)
Alertscript parameter passing
Basic password policy
Less & better translatable strings

31. LLD

32. LLD
SNMP
discovery[{#MACRO1}, oid1, {#MACRO2}, oid2, …]
Discover ifDescr & ifAlias

33. LLD
Windows
LLDiscover Windows services

34. LLD
Where macros can be used
Units
IPMI sensor
Applications
Interface_{#IFNAME}

35. LLD
Databases
ODBC - db.odbc.discovery
+---------+-------+
| host | count |
+---------+-------+
| Japan 1 | 5 |
| Japan 2 | 12 |
| Latvia | 3 |
+---------+-------+

36. LLD
Context
/ – 10%
/home – 20%
{$<MACRO>:<context>}
{$FSFREE} = 10
{$FSFREE:/home} = 20

37. Bigstuff

38. Bigstuff
Should not be spoken

39. Bigstuff

40. Bigstuff
Trendy
forecast()
– In specified time, what the value will be?
timeleft()
– How much time left until the specified threshold
reached?

41. SMTP
Alertscript (sendEmail)
Relaying MTA

42. Easier SMTP

43. Map this
Item "Free memory" on "Server":
application "qwerty" does not exist.

44. Follow, follow
Zabbix manual, "What's new" page
IRC