Welcome to Zabbix Conference 2016!

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Who am I?

Alexei Vladishev

Creator of Zabbix

CEO, Architect and Product Manager

Twitter: @avladishev

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Our sponsors

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Conference stats

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223 participants from 38 (+10) countries

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223 participants from 38 countries

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Top five countries1. ……. 16

2. France 13

3. Netherlands 11

4. Lithuania 10

5. Germany 9 * excluding Latvia

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Top five countries1. Russia 16

2. France 13

3. Netherlands 11

4. Lithuania 10

5. Germany 9 * excluding Latvia

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What’s happened in 2016

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Release of Zabbix 3.0 LTS

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Long Term Support (LTS) till 2021

Faster development, better support

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45 people in Riga, Tokyo and New York

Last but not least…

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Zabbix is a True Open Source software and will always be.

Let’s talk about Zabbix 3.2

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Quick reminder

Zabbix 3.2 is the next major release, non LTS, 6-7 months support period

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Event correlation

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Example of a local event correlation

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Log file monitoring

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… 10/Aug/2016:06:25:30 service Jira stopped 10/Aug/2016:06:25:32 service MySQL stopped 10/Aug/2016:06:26:11 service MySQL started 10/Aug/2016:06:26:22 service Redis stopped 10/Aug/2016:06:26:58 service Redis started 10/Aug/2016:06:27:31 service Jira started …

/var/log/services.log

How many items and triggers we need to monitor state of each service and have independent notification?

Zabbix 3.2:

One item and one trigger to monitor all services!

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How will it work?

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10/Aug/2016:06:25:30 service Jira stopped “Service Jira stopped” PROBLEM

10/Aug/2016:06:25:30 service Jira stopped “Service Jira stopped” PROBLEM 10/Aug/2016:06:27:32 service MySQL stopped “Service MySQL stopped” PROBLEM

How will it work?

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10/Aug/2016:06:25:30 service Jira stopped “Service Jira stopped” PROBLEM 10/Aug/2016:06:27:32 service MySQL stopped “Service MySQL stopped” RESOLVED 10/Aug/2016:06:28:11 service MySQL started

How will it work?

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10/Aug/2016:06:25:30 service Jira stopped “Service Jira stopped” PROBLEM 10/Aug/2016:06:27:32 service MySQL stopped “Service MySQL stopped” RESOLVED 10/Aug/2016:06:28:11 service MySQL started 10/Aug/2016:06:34:22 service Redis stopped “Service Redis stopped” PROBLEM

How will it work?

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10/Aug/2016:06:25:30 service Jira stopped “Service Jira stopped” PROBLEM 10/Aug/2016:06:27:32 service MySQL stopped “Service MySQL stopped” RESOLVED 10/Aug/2016:06:28:11 service MySQL started 10/Aug/2016:06:34:22 service Redis stopped “Service Redis stopped” RESOLVED 10/Aug/2016:06:37:58 service Redis started

How will it work?

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10/Aug/2016:06:25:30 service Jira stopped “Service Jira stopped” RESOLVED 10/Aug/2016:06:27:32 service MySQL stopped “Service MySQL stopped” RESOLVED 10/Aug/2016:06:28:11 service MySQL started 10/Aug/2016:06:34:22 service Redis stopped “Service Redis stopped” RESOLVED 10/Aug/2016:06:37:58 service Redis started 10/Aug/2016:06:55:31 service Jira started

How will it work?

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Tags give us ability to switch from host-to service-centric problem reporting

and notifications

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But it’s not limited only to services!

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Service: Oracle Service: {{ITEM.VALUE}.regsub(‘…’, ’\1 \2’)}

Datacenter: NY2 Datacenter: {$DATACENTER}

Area: Performance Area: Availability Area: Security

Environment: Staging Environment: Test

User impact: None User impact: Critical

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Different dimensions

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So many problems

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By environment: Production

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By datacenter: NY2

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By impact: Critical

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By impact: Critical AND in NY2

Problem view

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Filtering!

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Notifications

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Global correlation

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Correlation rules

Existing problems

New problem comes

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Correlation rules

Existing problems No correlation found

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Correlation rules

Existing problems Close older problems

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Correlation rules

Existing problems New problem will be closed immediately

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Problem tags and correlation is a solid foundation for further improvements

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Nested host groups

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Servers Servers/Physical Servers/VMs

Location/Africa Location/Europe Location/Japan Location/North America

Templates Templates/Official Templates/SNMP Templates/Services Templates/Vendors Templates/Vendors/HP

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Redesigned permissions

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Filtering

Manually close problems

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Trigger hysteresis? Easy!

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Viewable items, triggers, graphs created by LLD

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Items

Triggers

Better actions and escalations

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Web scenario export/import Function evaluation for NOTSUPPORTED items Coping with fast-growing log files Support of regex in count () and much more!

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Also…

For detailed list of new features see

Documentation of Zabbix 3.2

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Zabbix 3.2 is a result of active cooperation with our partners and

customers.

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Special thanks to S&T Slovakia s.r.o.

How to upgrade?

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Nothing special, except …

Some history tables are affected: history_log, history_text

It may take time to execute depending on size of log and text data stored in the database

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Where is Zabbix 3.2?

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Zabbix 3.2.0 is expected to be released very soon

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Enjoy the conference!

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Thanks for your support