As always, Zabbix Conference is a 2-day event full of exciting talks, tricky topics, community solutions, use cases from a wide range of companies and workshops run by the Zabbix Team.
Explore the agenda in full, with all the videos and presentations!
| 08:50 |
Registration for Conference Delegates |
| 10:00 |
Opening Speech |
| 10:40 |
CASE STUDY: How Zabbix is used at SASSteven will talk about adaptations and techniques used to manage a Zabbix deployment in a highly customizable software as a service environment, and sharing tips on PostgreSQL to Oracle DB conversion. 
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| 11:20 |
CASE STUDY: Using Zabbix in a Devops environmentA case study showing how Zabbix can deliver monitoring of 60+ web applications across 50+ servers running in a devops environment, where changes happen fast and no one can have control of everything. When developers don't want to spend time configurating a monitoring system, and operations don't have time to learn all the details around systems using the IT infrastructure, they have to talk to each other to find out how to get a system that does the dirty work for them. Devops environments can deliver results in an efficient way, but they depend on a high level of automation to reach the goals. Monitoring is only one of the aspects they have to work with and Zabbix can help to achieve the expected result. 
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| 11:40 |
Coffee Break |
| 12:10 |
What's New in Zabbix 3.4 |
| 12:50 |
Ansible, the missing pieceAgent configuration is a common problem faced by most organizations needing finer grained monitoring. In this talk, Andrew will discuss how Ansible and Ansible Tower can be leveraged to seamlessly maintain agent configurations and be leveraged for trigger related automated orchestration.
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| 13:20 |
Zabbix on the large clusterVladimir will present his journey towards implementing Zabbix on a large-scale cross-datacenter cluster. The presentation will cover splitting Zabbix components into docker containers as well as preparing and launching them on MESOS cluster, using Mesosphere. The talk will include details on how to cover "last mile" redundant connection using Octopus Load Ballancer and how to create a pool of self-ballanced Proxies accommodated to handle spikes of the load. 
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| 13:40 |
Lunch |
| 14:50 |
Orange Slovensko and the story of Zabbix implementationGabriel Farkas will tell the story on how cooperation with Zabbix allowed for a new functionality. Why we decided to go for Open Source and talk about the lessons learned on the way. 
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| 15:10 |
Zabbix for the Enterprise: Gardner Denver Case StudyDive into how IT Managed Solutions has implemented Zabbix for Gardner Denver, a leading global provider of flow control technology, application expertise and support services. This discussion will explore the deployment, integration, templating, ad-ons and ideas for future expansion and additional features. 
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| 15:30 |
Zabbix Agent emulator for AS/400Key points of the presentation:
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| 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:30 |
CASE STUDY: Intesa Sanpaolo Bank monitors 7k servers with ZabbixIntesa Sanpaolo Bank is now using Zabbix to monitoring Virtual and physical Operating Systems. The current environment is based on HP-UX and Linux (RedHat Enterprise) hosts. In this presentation, Quadrata will talk about Zabbix implementation at Intesa Sanpaolo Bank and new special Auto-registration model to automate the templating of the hosts. 
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| 16:50 |
CASE STUDY: Road to a fully automated Zabbix deployment at LNEPatrik will talk about how Open-Future migrated from one Zabbix server to another achieving an automated monitoring solution with 850 hosts, 67000 items and 26000 triggers, for now. The migration is still in process as they are also migrating from a vlanned network to a flat structure and from VMware to OpenNebula. Patrik will also discussed how they solved the problem of web monitoring and application status monitoring by creating endpoints monitored by their LLD script. 
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| 17:10 |
The importance of being ...REDAs Oscar Wilde once said, if you want to monitor your AWS cloud, you must have the power of the red Z by your side. With their speech, Andrea and Enrico will show you a real life case scenario on how they implemented their resilient, fully automated, fully integrated with Zabbix, AWS monitoring plugin, using a key AWS scalable component. 
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| 08:30 |
Zabbix Workshops / Zabbix Exam
EXAMZabbix Conference will also offer a fantastic opportunity to become Zabbix 3.0 Certified, as we will provide you with a chance to pass Zabbix 3.0 exam right at the venue!
If you currently hold any of the following certificates, you are welcome to apply for the exam: |
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| 10:00 |
The Concierge ParadigmThe Concierge Paradigm idea was born over time but initially came from challenges we had by working out how to operate scalable and enterprise-grade application containers. This meant monitoring, logging, deploying, scaling, load-balancing and service discovery. We needed to do this both on-premise and in AWS. We were running some docker tasks in ECS and a Kubernetes and CoreOS cluster on-premise but we hadn't chosen these by researching different options, they were pretty much the first options we came across. We'd felt the difficulties of our decision, so started to look out to the wider community at other options. This is the story of what we discovered. How we made our application monitoring more efficient and accurate; how we radically simplified the infrastructure needed for running containers and how we utilised Zabbix as an container scheduler. 
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| 10:40 |
From LLD to SuperDiscoveryIlya is going to tell about Badoo solution that they created in the project based on Zabbix and LLD. Badoo has a small group of monitoring specialists and a lot of developers (PHP mostly), huge production environment with big amount of application and business metrics. In order to create fast and flexible monitoring for critical components, they came up to the idea of involving developers into that process.
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| 11:10 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:40 |
Zabbix Support: Overcoming challenges together |
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| 12:00 |
Zabbix monitoring Jabber BotChatOps has been picking up the pace in the last few years and some of you might be already using it in your organization. At Danube Cloud, they have built a bot that connects to the Zabbix API; this allows you to perform Zabbix operations via a chat window. Ludolph is an open source project, which can be effortlessly integrated with your Zabbix server. The bot is easily extendable, so you can write plugins if you need additional functionality. This talk aims to show you how Ludolph ChatOps can be leveraged by your operations team to work and cooperate more efficiently. 
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| 12:20 |
Upgrading Zabbix for a better sleepZabbix is a great helper at this division of Nokia, and this talk will go through the process of upgrading a quite complicated Zabbix environment, as well as various approaches to monitoring that have been found especially useful. We will look at processes that ensure monitoring developed alongside the product development, team engagement workflows, monitoring for a more robust monitoring system, approaches to mobile notifications including Prowl and Pushover (and why not Pagerduty) and discover how exactly did Zabbix 1.8 die. 
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| 12:40 |
User Experience: Migration from 2.4 to 3.2 in a big environmentXavier will give you feedback about zabbix 3.2 migration on Galera database in large banking environment. Preparation work was important to only have 5 minutes of unavailability during the migration. Furthermore, it was necessary to know the limits of the new architecture by having test loads and be sure that the new architecture will absorb load peaks 
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| 13:00 |
Lunch |
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Exploring the depths of Zabbix integrationCloud data center management is not only about orchestration, but also about keeping an eye on what's going on in your datacenter. Imagine you deploy and destroy hundreds of servers, virtual machines, and containers every day. How do you monitor everything at such a scale? One solution is to integrate Zabbix into your software and services by leveraging the Zabbix API. Such integration opens a whole new world of possibilities for what can be done with Zabbix. In this talk, Daniel will demonstrate how Danube Cloud automates the configuration of Zabbix, and how to use the Zabbix API in order to take full advantage of the Zabbix monitoring system. 
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| 14:30 |
Monitoring and incident management using Zabbix and ServiceNowBy combining Zabbix and ServiceNow, TV 2 has created an integration that leverages the strength of both systems. Morten and Michael will take you through the what, why and how of combining Zabbix monitoring and alerting with IT Service Management using ServiceNow. Finally they will give you a sneak peek of new features they have planned for the integration. 
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| 14:50 |
CASE STUDY: Using Zabbix in an IoT architectureThe act of monitoring is a systematic data collection about events, measures and timing aimed to control systems status. We will show that, with the right gateways, Zabbix can have a central role in an IoT architecture. The presentation will show an implementation of a simple IoT architecture where Zabbix is at the hearth of a scenario of data collections coming from several sensors, gathered by a gateway capable of connecting with wireless and wired device using open communications protocols. 
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| 15:20 |
Coffee Break |
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| 15:50 |
Zabbix: Research to FunctionJames will discuss and explain the process of implementing Zabbix within a global IT infrastructure. Looking at the reasoning behind Zabbix, how it was implemented, what it is being used for, and how it is benefiting a large global IT system. NHK International is a global company with locations around the world. For the start of the Zabbix project we are monitoring devices in 4 states within the USA, 1 location in Mexico, 1 location in Germany, and 1 location in Japan. This is the trial/demo to show the other locations around the world the advantage of using Zabbix for IT monitoring. On the current monitoring environment it is about 200 servers and about 75 network devices. 
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| 16:10 |
Prediction Experience and New ModelZabbix has implemented the prediction functionality in version 3.0 and became one of the top 5 world leaders in monitoring solutions. This short talk is about experience in using Zabbix prediction metrics at various IT companies – Genesys (USA), RingCentral (USA), ComePay (Russia), Distillery (USA), Syncplicity (USA). The challenges and examples of the forecasting precision are provided for two particular metrics – free disk space and available memory. New forecasting model for cyclic and periodical workload metrics is presented as well. Co-authors of the presentation: Dmitry Shchemelinin, Ph.D., Sr. Director of Operations, RingCentral (USA). Kristina Kucherova, Database Administrator, Distillery (Russia). 
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| 16:30 |
Lightning Talks
5-minute inspiration!Share one great idea, tell a story, be creative and inspire - through a short 5-minute presentation.
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| 16:50 |
Closing Speech |
