The Universal Open Source Enterprise Level Monitoring Solution

Zabbix 4.0 and beyondWhat we may expect in the future

Alexei Vladishev

Founder and CEO of Zabbix

Twitter: @avladishev

Email: alex@zabbix.com

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Zabbix is a universal open source enterprise level

monitoring solution

Zabbix Team

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3.0 LTS 3.2 3.4 4.0 LTS

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Where we are?

ReleasedItem pre-processing

Dependent items

Maps and dashboards

Remote commands by Proxies

Elastic Search

3.0 LTS 3.2 3.4 4.0 LTS

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Where we are?

Released Under development

4.0 LTS

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A few major improvements of Zabbix 4.0 and why they

are important

Making problems independent

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Problems and events

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Triggers{HOST.NAME} has just been restarted

Problems*No problem name*

3.x

Slow: problems and events name are calculated on the fly

Problems and events

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Triggers{HOST.NAME} has just been restarted

4.0

Fast: display as it is in “problems” and “events”

Problems Name: “Linux006 has just been restarted”

Better integration options

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Real-time export of history and events

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Zabbix Server

History file

ExportDir=/var/log/zabbix ExportFileSize=100M

JSON

Trends file

Events file

Better work flow

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Acknowledgements

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Message is mandatory No way to put message only No way just to close problem

3.xMonitoring -> Problems -> Ack

Advanced problem work flow

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Message is optional

Operations are optional: - ACK - Change severity (!) - Close problem

4.0Monitoring -> Problems -> Update

New ways of monitoring

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HTTP item type

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Some use cases• Monitoring content of WEB application

• Getting data out of APIs, which are based on JSON/XML

• Access to HTTP header fields

• Server: Apache/2.4.1 (Unix)

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Typical HTTP processing

HTTP check Pre-processing History

HTTP data processing

TEXT HTML JSON XML

BINARY

XPath JSONPath

Regex

Better interface

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UI getting simpler

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No Monitoring->Triggers anymore, use Monitoring->Problems

New widgets

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and more!

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We create an universal self-service monitoring

platform delivering business value

Self service

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Getting most business value out of collected data

Give access to everyone: finance, analytics, sales, support, developers, customers, etc

Requires best user experience

Security and flexible user roles are important

Extreme flexibility

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Collect any data

Pre-process and transform collected data in any way

Modules and webhooks for extending Zabbix

Choice of: OS, HW, database, programming languages

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More platforms

Official packages for more hardware and cloud platforms

Modularity

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3.x

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Independent modules

4.x3.x

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Single pane of glassCentral place to see and control monitoring of whole infrastructure

Central management of alerting

Event collection from various sources

Observing information from multiple Zabbix Servers

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Unified dashboard and

alerting

Events

Events

EventsEvents

EventsEvents

Root cause analysis

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Root cause analysis

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• It gives a clear answer to the question “What is the cause of the problem?”

• It provides information about impact and importance

• Reduces recovery time (MTTR)

Root cause analysis

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Trigger dependencies Event correlation

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Root cause analysis

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Trigger dependencies Event correlation

3.4 4.x

Automatic and manual relationship between problems Complex event processing (de-duplication, filtering, enrichment incl. AI & machine learning)

Enrichment

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‣ Server B is not available

Root cause analysisDatacenter: Tokyo1 Class: Availability

Enrichment

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‣ Server B is not available

Root cause analysisDatacenter: Tokyo1 Class: Availability

‣ Server B is not available

AI & ML, CMDB, Network topology,

service tree

Datacenter: Tokyo1 Class: Availability

Location: Rack4,32 Contact: Alexei

Service: Helpdesk HW: HP DL380

GEO: 12.459 34.34

External systems

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‣ Server B is not available

‣ Server C is not available

‣ Datacenter Tokyo1 is not available

‣ Network is not available to Tokyo1

‣ Server B is not available

‣ Server C is not available

‣ 197 more problems ….

Root cause analysisDatacenter: Tokyo1 Class: Availability

Datacenter: Tokyo1 Class: Availability

Datacenter: Tokyo1 Class: AvailabilityRelationship between problems

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‣ Server B is not available

‣ Server C is not available

‣ Datacenter Tokyo1 is not available

‣ Network is not available to Tokyo1

‣ Server B is not available

‣ Server C is not available

‣ 197 more problems ….

Root cause analysisDatacenter: Tokyo1 Class: Availability

Datacenter: Tokyo1 Class: Availability

Datacenter: Tokyo1 Class: Availability

‣ Datacenter Tokyo1 is not available (2 related problems)

‣ Server B is not available

‣ Server C is not available

Relationship between problems Correlation rules

Service as a first class citizen

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Disk space

Oracle Database

CPU Network

Transaction processing

Java Middleware API

Ticket selling system

WEB Server

Our services

VOIPHelpdesk

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Disk space

Oracle Database

CPU Network

Transaction processing

Java Middleware API

Ticket selling system

WEB Server

Our services

VOIPHelpdesk

Service: Oracle

System: Disk

Tag based linkageto problems

• Much easier maintenance: tag based linkage between problems and services

• Choice of service propagation rules (up, down)

• Visualisation: more widgets to display services (status, SLA)

• Alerting of service status changes

• Use service tree for problem correlation and impact analysis

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Services

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Metrics Problems

Value

Services

IT Infrastructure level More about technology

Business level About SLA and KPIs

More value for business

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Disk space

Oracle Database

CPU Network

Transaction processing

Java Middleware API

Ticket selling system

WEB Server

Our services

VOIPHelpdesk

IT InfrastructureBusiness

A few announcements

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New training programs

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ZCU ZCS ZCP ZCECertified User Certified Specialist Certified Professional Certified Expert

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Difficulty

new new

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The Universal Open Source Enterprise Level Monitoring Solution

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