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Welcome toZabbix Conference

2014The meeting of good friends, again!

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About me

Name: Alexei Vladishev

Email: alex@zabbix.com

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.