Zabbix 6.2 will once again improve the user experience for new and experienced users, mainly through a series of UI/UX optimizations, new monitoring items and configuration options, and performance optimizations for medium and large-scale environment deployments.
Get a quick look at the most noteworthy new features in Zabbix 6.2!
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Reduce unnecessary noise by suppressing irrelevant Zabbix problems
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Store confidential information in CyberArk vault for safety
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AWS EC 2 Official Template
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Sync Zabbix proxy configuration from Zabbix frontend
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More control over discovered hosts
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Extend VMware monitoring
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track active checks
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Zabbix performance optimizations and internal changes
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Optimize the usability and behavior of execute now
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Separate host and template groups
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Supports multiple LDAP servers for user authentication
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More templates and integrations
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Other new features and optimizations
01 Reduce unnecessary noise by suppressing irrelevant Zabbix problems
Zabbix administrators can now hide irrelevant issues by suppressing them:
- Suppress problems until a specific point in time
- Suppress issues indefinitely until manually removed
- Action actions associated with suppressed issues will be suspended until the issue is unsuppressed
- Choose to hide or show suppressed issues in the Problems page
02Store confidential information in CyberArk vault to ensure security
In addition to the previously supported HashiCorp vault, Zabbix 6.2 also officially supports storing confidential information in the CyberArk vault:
- Choose between CyberArk and HashiCorp vaults
- Encrypt connection to CyberArk vault using vault certificate
- Securing database certificates and user macros
- Zabbix vault providers can be configured and retrieved via Zabbix API
03 AWS EC2 Official Template
Use the official Zabbix AWS EC2 template to monitor AWS EC2 instances and attached AWS EBS volumes:
- Monitor AWS EC2 CPU, network, disk, status and many other metrics
- Discover and monitor AWS EBS volumes
- Discover and monitor AWS EC2 alerts and react to alert status changes
04 Synchronize Zabbix proxy configuration from Zabbix frontend
Zabbix proxy management has never been easier! Now the proxy configuration can be reloaded immediately from the Zabbix frontend:
- Zabbix proxy configuration can now be refreshed from the Administration - Proxies page
- Zabbix proxy configuration can be refreshed directly from the command line on the Zabbix server
- Zabbix proxy configuration can be refreshed using Zabbix API
- Both active proxy and passive proxy support centralized configuration refresh
05 More control over discovered hosts
Hosts discovered from host archetypes now support manual editing of templates, tags and user macros:
- Manually link the template to the host discovered from the host archetype
- Ability to create and modify user macros on hosts created from host prototypes
- Additional tags can now be created on hosts created from host archetypes
- The API host method has been extended to support manual linking between templates and hosts created by host prototypes
06 Extend VMware monitoring
Hosts created with Zabbix VMware monitoring can now be further modified:
- Manually assign additional templates to discovered VMware hosts
- Create and modify user macros on discovered VMware hosts
- Create additional labels on discovered VMware hosts
VMware monitoring has been extended to support many new items and low-level auto-discovery rules. This enables monitoring of new metrics such as:
- VMware Alert Status
- Number and timestamp of VMware snapshots
- Hyperviso Network Interface Metrics
- VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Port Metrics
- Datastore IOPS read/write metrics
- Datastore performance counters
- VMware guest status
- and many more monitoring items
VMware hosts can now be filtered based on their power state.
07 Track active checks
Zabbix active agent check status can now be observed when hovering over the Zabbix agent interface icon:
- Track availability of passive and active agent checks directly from the Zabbix frontend
- A customizable Zabbix agent heartbeat period is provided in the agent configuration file
- New internal monitoring items are available for active agent check status monitoring
- Zabbix API can also retrieve Zabbix active agent check status
08 Zabbix performance optimization and internal changes
Zabbix server now only receives the latest configuration changes, instead of periodically reloading the full Zabbix configuration data:
- The configuration cache will support incremental updates
- New configuration synchronization logic greatly improves performance on large Zabbix instances
The initial item checking logic has been optimized so that newly created items receive their first metrics within one minute of creation, instead of checking at random points in the item update interval:
- New items are checked within one minute of creation
The newly introduced user macro cache reduces configuration cache locking and therefore improves overall Zabbix performance:
- Create a new user macro cache
Multiple changes to Zabbix library structure:
- Optimize Zabbix library structure
- Remove circular Zabbix library dependencies
09 Optimize the usability and behavior of execute now
The execute now button, previously used to retrieve metrics immediately, is now available from the Latest data page:
- Execute now button added to Latest data page
- Items that do not support immediate execution are ignored without an error message
- A warning will be displayed if the user attempts to use the function on an item that does not support the immediate execution function
- "Execute Now" permission has been added to the list of permissions available when customizing Zabbix roles
10 separate host groups and template groups
To simplify host and template filtering, templates are now grouped in template groups instead of host groups:
- New Template Group page under the Configuration menu
- During the upgrade process, existing templates will be moved to the template group
- Full support for importing templates and hosts from previous Zabbix versions and will create appropriate groups from the import file
- Template group pages can be assigned role-based access
- New Template Group API methods for creating, modifying and retrieving template groups
11 Supports multiple LDAP servers for user authentication
Multiple LDAP servers can now be defined and saved in Authentication - LDAP settings:
- Optimize security and comply with company policy, where organizational units are authenticated through different LDAP servers
- Seamlessly switch user authentication between LDAP servers after migration or update of LDAP servers
12 more templates and integrations
Zabbix 6.2 offers many new templates for the most popular vendors:
- Envoy proxy
- HashiCorp Consul
- AWS EC2 Template
- Proxmox
- CockroachDB
- TrueNAS
- HPE MSA 2060 & 2040
- HPE First
- Optimized SMART Monitoring Template
Zabbix 6.2 introduces webhook integration for the GLPI IT asset management solution. This webhook can be used to forward questions created in Zabbix to the GLPi help page.
13 Other new features and optimizations
More improvements (parts):
- Digital Clock Dashboard Widget
- Stacked chart options for dashboard vector graphics
- The Global View default dashboard has been redesigned
- Support {INVENTORY.*} macros for script type items and manual scripts
- New Windows Registry Monitoring Item
- New items for monitoring and discovering OS processes and process parameters on Windows, Linux and BSD operating systems
- Removed support for Zabbix database MD5 hashes
- Added "Documentation" button to all Zabbix sections
- The "Documentation" button opens the relevant Zabbix documentation page
- Optimized Zabbix frontend protection against XSS attacks