Zabbix 7.0 LTS: The New Release – No License Costs but more Features

Key Features of Zabbix

• Metrics

  • Versatile Data Sources: Monitoring of network devices, cloud services, containers, virtual machines, operating systems, log files, databases, applications, IoT sensors, and websites.

  • Flexible Data Collection: Support for various protocols and interfaces, including HTTP/HTTPS monitoring and external API integration.

  • Agent-based and Agentless Monitoring: Monitoring without the need to install an agent on each target device.

• Problem Detection

  Tagging of Issues

  Classification and intelligent alerting through tagging of detected problems.
  

• Alerting and Notifications

  • Diverse Alerting Options
    Integration with systems such as VictorOps, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, and SIGNL4, as well as support for email, SMS, and various communication platforms like Slack, MS Teams, and Telegram.
  • Customizable Notifications
    Ability to create escalation scenarios and automated recovery processes.

• Data Visualization

  Zabbix offers extensive options for displaying monitoring data, including charts, heatmaps, and customizable dashboards. Integration with tools like Grafana allows Zabbix data to be presented in even more detailed and interactive visualizations, enhancing analysis and decision-making.

• Security

  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Support for TOTP and Duo Universal Prompt to enhance security.
  • Encryption: Support for TLS for secure communication between Zabbix components, with optional configuration.
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) with SAML: Integration with SAML for secure and centralized authentication, enabling seamless and secure user management.
  • User Roles and Groups: Allows granular assignment of rights and permissions to control access to monitoring data and functions.

• Deployment and Scalability

  • Flexible Deployment
    Support for on-premises and cloud installations, automatic agent deployment, and easy upgrades.

  • Unlimited Scalability
    Support for distributed monitoring, load balancing, and high availability through the use of Zabbix proxies.

• Integration and Automation

  • Advanced Integrations
    Support for numerous software and hardware vendors, ITSM integrations, and cloud services.
  • Automation
    Automatic detection and integration of new devices into the monitoring system through BNC's Managed Automation Services (MAS).

• Business Monitoring

  • SLA Monitoring
    Monitoring and management of Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure service quality.

  • Root Cause Analysis
    Correlation and investigation of issues to identify the underlying cause.

Zabbix 7.0 LTS Highlights

Zabbix LLC introduces its latest LTS version, Zabbix 7.0, designed for enhanced performance and expanded scalability for enterprises. This release includes a range of new features and improvements, such as synthetic end-user web monitoring, high availability and load balancing for Zabbix proxies, significant enhancements in performance and scalability, native support for multi-factor authentication (MFA), new data visualization options, and more.

• Synthetic End-User Web Monitoring

  • Monitor websites and applications using flexible, multi-step browser-based scenarios.
  • Capture screenshots, collect and visualize performance and availability metrics, and receive alerts for detected issues.

• High Availability and Load Balancing for Zabbix Proxy

  Easy Scaling of the Zabbix Environment:
  Ensure 100% availability with automatic proxy load balancing and high availability features.

• Faster and More Efficient Zabbix Proxies

  Support for fully in-memory data storage for collected metrics. Users can choose between disk, memory, and hybrid proxy modes, making it ideal for embedded hardware. Performance improvements of 10 to 100 times are expected, depending on the hardware used.

• Enhanced Data Collection Speed and Scalability

  Asynchronous poller processes replace synchronous ones, significantly improving the speed and scalability of metric queries. Up to 1,000 concurrent queries per poller process can be supported.

• Centralized Control of Data Collection Timeouts

  Enhanced Support for Metrics and Custom Checks: Centralized control of timeout settings, now fully configurable through the Zabbix GUI or Zabbix API, improves support for metrics and custom checks.

• New Data Visualization Capabilities

  Introduction of new dashboard widgets, including Honeycomb, Gauge, Pie Chart, Top Triggers, and navigation aids for items and hosts, providing a more comprehensive overview of monitored metrics and infrastructure.

• Dynamic Dashboard Widget Navigation

  New Communication Framework for Dashboard Widgets: Enables widgets to act as data sources for other widgets and allows dynamic information updates.

• Enterprise-Level Multi-Factor Authentication Support

  Native MFA Support: Includes time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) and Duo Universal Prompt authentication for enhanced security and flexibility in user authentication.

• New Templates and Integrations

  Zabbix 7.0 LTS comes pre-installed with a range of new templates for popular vendors and cloud platforms.