Within our monitoring platform, we integrate many open-source tools along with our own technology, and one of the most import is Zabbix. Therefore, we are always aware of the updates of the tool to take advantage of all the new features it has. In this case, Zabbix has updated to version 5.0, which incorporates important changes and many improvements both in functionality and aesthetics, in this article we will tell you all.
Official support for Agent 2
Already incorporated in version 4.4, Zabbix people continue with its development, offering from now on, official support for the newest agent. For the time being, they will continue to offer support for both the old and the new agent. Although it is expected that in the future the last version rewritten in GO will replace the previous one.
Among the improvements included in this new agent for version 5.0. Without a doubt, we emphasize the addition of the possibility of adding a data buffer. This will allow to keep on saving data in the same way that a proxy would do it in case of losing the connection with the main server. That is, even if the server is down, the agents could keep on collecting data and keep them in the disk, until it is recovered and they could be sent all together.
Notifications
A very important part of any monitoring platform, are the alerts. Having the data, is very useful, but if we can find out in real time about any problem, without having to be watching the graphs 24 hours a day, it will be much better.
Normally, they are done through email, but with the explosion of messaging applications, it is usually more useful to send the alerts to a shared group that you can consult more comfortably from your phone.
Zabbix 5 adds support for the most popular messaging applications such as Telegram, Slack, Discord or Microsoft Teams.