Zabbix Summit 2022 Agenda

Zabbix Summit 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.

Day 1: October 7, 2022

Riga (GMT+3)
09:00

Registration

10:15

KEYNOTE: Re-thinking Zabbix

Alexei Vladishev
Alexei Vladishev

CEO, Zabbix, Latvia

Alexei is the author of Zabbix, an enterprise class open source monitoring solution, and also the founder of Zabbix LLC, the company developing Zabbix.
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11:00

Getting ahead of the game with Zabbix services

Anton Jefremov
Anton Jefremov

Zabbix Sales Managers, Zabbix, Latvia

Yuri Tarasenko
Yuri Tarasenko

Zabbix Sales Managers, Zabbix, Latvia

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11:20

Discovering and managing hosts with improved Zabbix host prototypes

With the release of Zabbix 6.2, the flexibility of hosts discovered from host prototypes has been greatly improved. Learn how the host prototype improvements can be implemented in your existing host discovery workflows and how you can avoid a lot of menial work by automatically creating hosts based on host prototypes.

Kaspars Mednis
Kaspars Mednis

Chief Trainer, Zabbix, Latvia

Kaspars has more than 15 years of experience as a Network Administrator and more than 10 years of experience in Zabbix. He is highly knowledgeable about networking, SQL based databases (MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle), Windows and Linux server administration. Previously worked in banking sector, administering and monitoring bank network infrastructure.
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11:45

Coffee break

12:15

Zabbix in China

During the cooperation between Zabbix and Grandage, we constantly explore the needs of domestic users and the market, then share the typical use cases to show how Zabbix supports the top companies, etc,.

Cindy Lu
Cindy Lu

CSO, Grandage, China

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12:40

Leveraging Zabbix trend functions for network monitoring anomaly detection and enhanced visibility

Paulo Deolindo
Paulo Deolindo

Zabbix Trainer, Unirede Inteligência em TI, Brazil

Professional with more than 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure management with a focus on data visualization and cybersecurity and more than 10 years of experience with Zabbix. Previously, he worked at a company in the financial technology sector and is currently Zabbix Trainer and Data Protection Officer at Unirede.
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13:05

Enterprise scale VMware monitoring with Zabbix

A journey through monitoring an Enterprise customer with Zabbix VMWare integration from pre-5.0 to the last 6.2 Zabbix versions. All the steps from the simple VMWare monitoring that we have seen on Zabbix 5.0 to all the new features and simplifications that you can find on the latest Zabbix version. No more dual hosts and all the power of Zabbix Agent2 monitoring with VMWare metrics in a single Host view.

Dimitri Bellini
Dimitri Bellini

CEO, Quadrata Service Group s.r.l., Italy, UAE

Open Source and Zabbix evangelist from 2009, Quadrata CEO
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13:30

Enable Netflow Monitoring on Zabbix 6.0 with H5-Flow integration

Frederic Guillois
Frederic Guillois

CEO, H5 Network, France

Frederic joined H5 audits as an Associate to Manage Sales development and recruit commercial partners in France and internationally. In 2009, he became Sales and Marketing Director for all H5 Appliances solutions range. Since end of 2015, he acts as CEO. H5 growth strategy is focused on improving and developing the monitoring market, developing indirect sales through partners (integrators, distributors) across EMEA.
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13:55

Lunch

14:55

Zabbix dashboards: A single pane of glass for MSP environments

Properly visualizing the collected data and the state of your infrastructure can add many new layers of observability to your monitored environments. Join us and see how Zabbix visualization features can be used to provide a single pane of glass overview ideal for monitoring MSP client infrastructures.

Karlis Salins
Karlis Salins

Technical Support Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Karlis is a Zabbix trainer and Technical Support Engineer. Before joining Zabbix, worked as a DBA and System Administrator in financial sector. Has 4+ years of experience working with Zabbix monitoring software.
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15:20

Extending Zabbix

Vladimir Levijev
Vladimir Levijev

Senior C Developer, Zabbix, Latvia

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15:45

Zabbix and Ansible, complement each other like wine and cheese

Andrew Nelson
Andrew Nelson

Site Reliability Engineer, USA

Passionate about the B2B Technology industry for 15 years. Extensive knowledge of the B2B AV/VC marketplace along with wide ranging strategic relationships within various verticals. Specialties: Global Account Management, New Business Development, AV Systems Integration , IT Convergence , Video conferencing & Unified Communication , Managed Services , Man Management.
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16:10

Because I am API

Steve Destivelle
Steve Destivelle

Zabbix Trainer & Expert, IZI-IT, France

Steve is an open-source technology consultant, specialized in Zabbix. He is Zabbix Certified Expert and Trainer. He has founded his own company IZI-IT to support enterprises in their efforts of ensuring healthy IT environments and preventing service outages, as well as training projects. Steve is an active Zabbix evangelist who speaks at conferences, organizes meetups in France and also is Certified Zabbix Partner.
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16:35

Coffee break

17:00

Monitor MySQL with Zabbix: Understanding the metrics

Vittorio Cioe
Vittorio Cioe

Principal Solution Engineer, Oracle-MySQL, Poland

Databases and Open Source technology enthusiast. Spent almost ten years working for world-leading technology companies, focusing on many aspects of a technology business, like infrastructure and security aspects of the application layer, but also middleware and web performance. Lastly, his long-standing passion for open-source technology and databases led him to Oracle, working with MySQL, the leading open source database on the market, helping leading customers across Eastern Europe to successfully shape their projects. During his time at MySQL, he has also been presenting at many events around Europe, like OpenSource Day Warsaw, OpenSource Day Lisbon, DevTalks Bucharest, Highload++ Moscow, DevOps Days Kazan, and others.
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17:35

Keeping things structured within Zabbix

Setting up Zabbix is easy. Building templates? Sure. custom checks? why not. Let's have fun! After a few months of fun, you realize your Zabbix instance is a mess. All different kinds of tags names. Inconsistent tag values. Inconsistent item names, update intervals, triggers, host. Now what?! In this presentation, official Zabbix consultant and trainer Nathan Liefting from Opensource ICT Solutions will give you insight into how you can prevent such situations and maintain consistency throughout your Zabbix journey.

Nathan Liefting
Nathan Liefting

Zabbix consultant / trainer, Opensource ICT, Netherlands

My first introduction into Zabbix was back in 2016 when we had to upgrade an existing installation from version 2 to 3. I was working as a Network Engineer at the time and was immediately sold on Zabbix it’s usefulness for network monitoring. Since then I have always worked with Zabbix and in 2020 I went on to become a full-time Zabbix consultant and trainer. Writing books, blog posts and helping out the Zabbix community in various places.
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18:00

Closing

Day 2: October 8, 2022

08:45

Workshops

10:00

Morning Coffee

10:30

KEYNOTE: Zabbix business news

Sergey Sorokin
Sergey Sorokin

Director of Business Development, Zabbix, Latvia

Sergey is pushing the boundaries for Zabbix development all over the world. Responsible for global partner network development, for cooperation and joint projects with software and hardware vendors.
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10:50

What's up home - monitoring your IoT devices with Zabbix

By day, I am a technical monitoring lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix and do some weird experiments with it.

Janne Pikkarainen
Janne Pikkarainen

Senior Systems Engineer, Forcepoint, Finland

A very experienced sysadmin/systems engineer grown from basement scale to planet scale. Nowadays I'm part of Forcepoint LLC, doing my part as a Senior Systems Engineer at the global IT division. Not too much running, more thinking. I appreciate that. I am also a certified GIAC GCIH. At Forcepoint I have been a monitoring technical lead since 2016. Around March 2022 I also started to monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana for fun, doing weird experiments with both, and this escalated quickly to the point that I am now a blogger on official Zabbix blog.
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11:20

5 Real world examples for Zabbix integrations and extensions

Zabbix is a powerful tool when it comes to network monitoring. In real world projects, This power is often combined with third-party systems or extended with custom modules. This talk will present examples of frontend and backend extensions and integrations in Big Data applications that are used in practice at Deutsche Telekom and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, among others.

Wolfgang Alper
Wolfgang Alper

CEO, IntelliTrend GmbH, Germany

Wolfgang Alper is the CEO of IntelliTrend GmbH, a German IT-Service company specialized in network infrastructure, virtualization and network monitoring. With IntelliTrend GmbH, he had the idea that not only big companies like carriers would need a monitoring of their IT-Infrastucture, but also the smaller ones. So in 2004, he started implementing Zabbix in enterprise environments and has not regretted this decision once. As a Zabbix certified trainer, Wolfgang is specialised in large scale deployments of Zabbix.
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11:55

Coffee Break

12:35

Importance of business service monitoring based on real examples

Collecting, aggregating, and analyzing metrics is just the first step in providing reliable business service state overviews. In this speech, we will explore real-life use cases covering the design and implementation of Zabbix business service monitoring features.

Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs
Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs

Technical Support Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Aleksandrs has more than 10 years of experience in IT, providing support on the vast list of services, starting with basic technical support while deploying and administering web hosting services and moving to support of streaming technology equipment, data, optical systems, and network communication systems.Eventually, the wish of providing high-quality support in a constantly evolving environment of Zabbix led to the path of a Support Engineer for Zabbix customers, which was followed by Zabbix Certified Specialist, Professional and Expert certifications, to allow sharing experience and knowledge of Zabbix all around the globe.
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13:00

Enhancing Zabbix frontend with your own widget modules

You can extend existing functionality in Zabbix with simple UI modules without the need to change the source code of Zabbix. We show you some of our examples of how powerful modules can be, including widgets, popups, new menus, overriding CSS styles, etc...

Tomas Hermanek
Tomas Hermanek

CEO, Initmax, Czech Republic

Tomas works at initMAX s.r.o. and he is a big fan of opensource, that includes Zabbix monitoring solution. He specializes in application servers, automation and monitoring. Over the past ten years, he has been involved in the implementation of several large-scale projects having immense positive impact on customer IT environment.
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13:25

Deep dive into Zabbix Web Modules

The presentation aims to explain how the Zabbix Web Modules subsystem is implemented in Zabbix Web UI code hoping that this understanding will make it easier for everybody to write nice and powerful new modules.

Evgeny Yurchenko
Evgeny Yurchenko

Co-founder, Tech Lead, BGmot, Canada

Married to Zabbix and automation. Old hippo with tons of experience in different areas of IT.
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13:55

Lunch

14:55

Culture change to use Zabbix in Kubernetes

In this presentation I will share my experience working with Zabbix in Containers, using Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Robert Silva
Robert Silva

Tech Lead, JLCP, Brazil

+10 years of experience in IT, always working with a strategic focus, translating business demands into technological solutions. Specialist in Containers and Observability. I currently work as a Tech Lead at JLCP. Responsible for the execution of projects in Monitoring and Digital Transformation.
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15:25

Install and operate Zabbix in Kubernetes and OpenShift

Christian Anton
Christian Anton

Head of Cloud Native Infrastructure & Services, secadm GmbH - part of the MCL Group, Germany

Christian Anton has over 10 years of experience with IT Monitoring, network technologies and Open Source Software. He has also been delivering product trainings for more than 5 years, and has worked as a consultant and pre-sales engineer at several mid-sized and large customers. Since early 2017, Christian Anton delivers Zabbix trainings in German, English and Spanish.
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15:55

Keeping hundreds of Windows Zabbix agents in sync across different customers

As a Managed Services Provider (MSP) we are responsible for dozens of customers, with hundreds of Windows Servers. Therefore, we introduced mechanisms, to automatically deploy, configure, and sync Windows Zabbix agents across all these isolated environments. In this process, we leverage a tool set consisting of Azure DevOps, Git, PowerShell, and a publicly available Zabbix agent auto-updater, to provide all our customer's servers with the latest Zabbix agent configuration possible.

Marco Hofmann
Marco Hofmann

IT-System Engineer, Anaxco, Germany

Marco Hofmann is an IT-Systems Engineer with 15+ years worth of experience. He works at the german Managed Services Provider ANAXCO GmbH. His priority is the configuration and maintenance of the company’s central Zabbix environment, which is a key component in the fulfillment of the customers' maintenance contracts. He also focuses on designing and configuring Citrix RDSH environments, fully automated with PowerShell.
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16:25

Coffee Break

16:40

Using Zabbix to monitor our OpenNebula private cloud infrastructure

The Flemish Department of Environment and Spatial Planning (https://omgeving.vlaanderen.be) takes care of policy-making for spatial planning, environmental and building permits, impact assessments, and environmental regulation enforcement. In 2016 the organization decided to migrate its private cloud infrastructure from VMware to an open source solution, adopting OpenNebula as the new cloud management platform, and Ceph as the underlying object storage system. Nowadays, this infrastructure supports the work of a team of more than 50 developers, the management of a HA dual datacenter setup with two availability zones per datacenter, and the automation of the life cycle of over 2200 virtual machines—including more than 500 deployments per week. In this presentation, we will explain the key role that Zabbix plays in our core data centers as the open source monitoring tool of choice for our corporate private cloud.

Geert Willems
Geert Willems

System Engineer, Flemish Government, Belgium

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17:05

Bug off: Hunting Zabbix vulnerabilities

Alexey Mitrofanov
Alexey Mitrofanov

Cybersecurity lead, Zabbix, Latvia

Alexey has more than 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and has been working at Zabbix since 2021. Alexey is highly knowledgeable about security architecture, incident response, vulnerability management, and secure software development. Previously worked in oil, banking, and telco sectors in different security positions.
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17:30

Lightning talks. Better protect your Zabbix API

Wolfgang Alper
Wolfgang Alper

CEO, IntelliTrend GmbH, Germany

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17:35

Lightning talks. Zabbix Girls

Nivea Francys
Nivea Francys

Technical support engineer, Zabbix, Brazil

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17:40

Lightning talks. From zero to monitoring hero: My journey with Zabbix.

Laura Schilder
Laura Schilder

Zabbix consultant, Opensource ICT, Netherlands

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17:45

Lightning talks. Zabbix Translations

Marina Generalova
Marina Generalova

Technical documentation writer, Zabbix, Latvia

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Riga (GMT+3)
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