The release of the new version of the open-source monitoring system "Zabbix 5.0 LTS" was recently announced, which comes with a large number of innovations , including significant improvements in monitoring security, support for single sign-on, support for compression of historical data using TimescaleDB, integration with message delivery systems and support services, and much more.
For those unfamiliar with this monitoring system, Zabbix consists of three basic components : a server to coordinate, generate test requests and collect statistics, agents to perform checks on the external host side, and an interface to organize system management.
The application code is licensed under GPLv2. To alleviate the load on the central server and create a distributed monitoring network, a series of proxy servers can be deployed to aggregate data on host group verification.
Data can be stored in MySQL, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, DB2, and Oracle . Without agents, the Zabbix server can receive data using protocols such as SNMP, IPMI, JMX, SSH/Telnet, and ODBC, and test the availability of web applications and virtualization systems.
What's new in Zabbix 5.0?
This new version highlights new monitoring solutions for monitoring Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Nginx, ClickHouse, Windows, Memcached, HAProxy, as well as SAML authorization support for single sign-on (SSO) solutions, security enhancements, and official support for the new modular agent for Linux and Windows platforms.
Zabbix 5.0 also includes a new, separate console utility for testing JavaScript scripts, useful for webhooks and preprocessing new checks for automatically detecting performance metrics in Windows, IPMI sensors, and JMX metrics.
As well as a more user-friendly interface with convenient navigation in the left-hand menu, which can be minimized or completely hidden to save screen space.
In addition, it highlights the ability to reliably store the data collected by the agent in the local file system, the ability to mask secret values ​​(passwords, access keys, etc.) of user macros in the Zabbix interface and when sending notifications.
On the new side, we can find webhook support via HTTP proxy, trigger support for comparison operations for text data, support for custom macros for host prototypes, support for Float64 data type, support for encrypted connections to MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, optimization of interface performance for millions of monitoring devices, support for custom macros for bulk editing and tag filtering for some dashboard widgets.
Also noteworthy is the ability to prohibit the execution of certain controls by the agent, support for whitelists and blacklists , the ability to create a list of encryption protocols used for TLS connections, and to switch to SHA256 to store user password hashes.
Other notable changes in this new version include:
- Historical data compression when using TimescaleDB
- Support for user modules to extend the functionality of the user interface
- New preprocessing operators to replace text and get the name of JSON properties when working with JSONPath
- Group messages in an email client by event
- Ability to use secret macros in username and password to access IPMI
- Setting all ODBC monitoring parameters at the individual metric level
- Ability to check template metrics and devices directly from the interface Ability to copy a chart from a widget as a PNG image
- Simple configuration and simplification of SNMP templates by moving SNMP parameters to the host interface level
- Ability to clear SNMPv3 status cache
- Increased the size of the metric key to 2048 characters, the size of the message when confirming a problem to 4096 characters
Download
If you are interested in installing this new version, you can obtain the installation package for your Linux distribution at the following link.