Zabbix Summit 2024 Agenda

Day 1: Oct 4, 2024 - MAIN STAGE

Riga (GMT+3)
30 m

Registration

10 m

Summit Opening

40 m

KEYNOTE

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Alexei Vladishev

CEO & Founder, ZABBIX, Latvia

Alexei is the author of Zabbix, an enterprise-class, open-source monitoring solution, and also the Founder and CEO of Zabbix LLC, the company that develops Zabbix.
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30 m

Enhancing Zabbix monitoring workflows with AI features

Discover how AI enhances Zabbix and dive into our AI-driven solutions that improve Zabbix functionalities.

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Tomas Hermanek

CEO & Founder, initMAX s.r.o., Czech Republic

Tomas is a dedicated fan of open-source solutions, especially Zabbix. He specializes in application servers, automation, and monitoring. For over five years, Tomas has been a Zabbix trainer, sharing his expertise and passion for the platform. He is also passionate about Zabbix visualization, particularly widgets, and is an enthusiast of AI in all meaningful applications.
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20 m

Zabbix Cloud Announcement

Learn about the latest Zabbix product news and announcements.

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Dmitrijs Lamberts

Head of Product, Zabbix, Latvia

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20 m

Browser Monitoring in Zabbix 7.0: Use Case Overview

With new browser monitoring, you can easily build a foundation to monitor any page, whether it's single page performance, measuring login speed, or retrieving page content for further processing.

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Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs

Technical Support Engineer, Trainer, Zabbix, Latvia

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20 m

Partner and Trainer Awards

60 m

Lunch

30 m

Zabbix Meets AI - Leverage Machine Learning for Detecting Anomalies

This speech will cover the implementation of advanced machine learning algorithms for correlating multiple metrics and reacting to unexpected real-life scenarios instead of analyzing individual metrics as they come.

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Wolfgang Alper

CEO, Zabbix Trainer, IntelliTrend GmbH, Germany

Wolfgang is the CEO of IntelliTrend GmbH, a German IT company specializing in network infrastructure, virtualization, and network monitoring. He came to the conclusion that companies of all sizes would need to monitor their IT infrastructure, so in 2004 he started implementing Zabbix in enterprise environments and has never looked back. As a Zabbix certified trainer, Wolfgang specializes in large scale deployments of Zabbix.
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30 m

DNS Monitoring in Zabbix 7.0

Zabbix 7.0 has introduced two new items for DNS monitoring - net.dns.get and net.dns.perf. The speech will cover the technical details and various implementation considerations with designing the new items.

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Artjoms Rimdjonoks

Software Developer, Zabbix, Latvia

Artjoms is a Zabbix 6.0 Certified Expert with 10+ years of experience as a C/C++ developer (5 years in Zabbix). He previously, worked in the financial markets sector in the UK, developing low-latency trading systems. He brings with him an MSc in Software and Systems Security and a GCHQ certification from the University of Oxford.
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30 m

Zabbix 7.0 Performance Tuning Best Practices

Each new Zabbix LTS release comes with multiple internal design changes and performance improvements. This speech will cover a variety of internal changes and improvements and talk about how your Zabbix 7.0 instance can be optimized for the best possible performance.

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Karlis Salins

Technical Support Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Karlis is a Zabbix Trainer and Technical Support Engineer with over 6 years of experience working with Zabbix. Before joining Zabbix, he worked as a DBA and System Administrator in the financial sector.
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30 m

Coffee break

20 m

Advanced Log Monitoring Techniques

Logs are one of the core data sources for monitoring. Extracting valuable information from logs might sometimes be challenging or hit some limitations when using default methods available at Zabbix. I will present techniques to expand your capabilities when setting up log monitoring.

Giedrius_Stasiulionis
Giedrius Stasiulionis

IT Solution Expert, AB SEB bankas, Lithuania

Giedrius has a strong passion for monitoring, automating mundane tasks, and programming (especially scripting).
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30 m

Anomaly Detection in Zabbix: Present and Future

In this presentation, we will talk about anomaly detection in general, review the methods that are available in Zabbix, and discuss both our current research and what is coming in the next versions.

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Aleksandrs Kaļimuļins

Lead Product Owner, Zabbix, Latvia

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20 m

Data Structure Design for Generating Automated Network Map Topology

We will introduce multiple approaches to automatically draw topologies using Zabbix data structure.By combining Zabbix and topology, it becomes possible to visualize the network structure and problems at the same time, getting a bird's-eye view of the entire system. We would also like to present the results of the visualization of the network at the IT exhibition "Interop Tokyo" held in Tokyo for the past five years.

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Takeshi Tanaka

Chief Engineer, NTT Com Engineering Corporation, Japan

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30 m

zabbix_utils API Library for Enterprise Use Cases

One of the great benefits of Zabbix is that you can easily extend its capabilities to improve your monitoring. Being officially released in February 2024, the zabbix_utils library makes it even easier for developers and Zabbix admins to monitor different targets by making use of Python scripts. The goal of this presentation is to bring to light the different ways in which zabbix_utils can be used and how they can collect data and send it to the Zabbix server or proxies.

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Victor Breda Credidio

Zabbix Trainer, Zabbix Latam, Brazil

With a degree in Computer Science and a postgraduate degree in Information Security, Victor has been working as a support engineer at Zabbix for the last 3 years.
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30 m

Coffee break

20 m

Zabbix in Mining: Benefits of Host Discovery and Automatic Creation of Maps and Hosts

Learn about the details of the host discovery process, its neighborhood and maps, and an overview of other Zabbix solutions used within Vale, one of the largest companies in Brazil.

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Frederico Torres

IT Analyst, Vale S.A., Brazil

With 30 years of experience in technology, Frederico is a specialist in satellite communication, systems administration, and development. He graduated from UFRJ, Estácio, and PUC-MG, and has been working in the Technology department at Vale for 12 years, where he led the implementation of Zabbix as the official monitoring tool.
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20 m

Toward Green Mobility : Visualizing Solar Power Simulations with Zabbix

The efficient use of green power is heavily promoted in Japan. To utilize green power effectively, it's necessary to monitor the amount of green power generated and consumed. We will discuss how green power utilization architecture integrates green energy monitoring with Zabbix to achieve distributed monitoring. Our study focuses on key aspects such as solar power energy distributed monitoring with solar panel energy prediction, distributed processing control according to the edge environment, and using Zabbix functions. We will also show a case study that demonstrates the application of the Zabbix dashboard for solar energy oversight.

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Mitsuhiro Ono

Team Leader, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan

Mitsuhiro has experience as both a researcher and an engineer, but is currently focused on edge control that leverages wide-area data synchronization mechanisms and green energy. He utilizes Zabbix as a distributed monitoring tool for this purpose.
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Toshihiro Akamatsu

Principal Engineer, SRA OSS K.K., Japan

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20 m

Automating Network Map Generation

Network maps can be extremely useful in visualizing your whole infrastructure and infrasatructure component states. During this speech I will present ways of automating network map generation - from discovering the network topology to automatic creation of maps in zabbix based on the collected information.

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Pascal De Jessey

Senior Consultant, Trainer, SOMONE, France

Pascal has more than 25 years of experience in monitoring solutions, both commercial and open-source. He is knowledgeable in multiple aspects of IT, including Linux, Windows, networking, monitoring, and SQL databases. He has been using Zabbix since 2016 and is a Zabbix Certified Trainer.
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15 m

Lightning Talk: The Road to Zabbix in 2024: Implementing and Migrating Monitoring

As an all-in-one monitoring solution, Zabbix can be used as a centralized tool for data collection, processing, alerting, visualization, reporting, and more. This presentation will cover the journey of replacing previous solutions with Zabbix - from deployment to consolidating multiple Zabbix instances to multiple integrations and automated solutions.

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Antti Hurme

Senior Solution Architect, Elisa Oyj, Finland

Antti works in the Elisa IT and Telco Services organization as a Senior Solution Architect, with a strong background in Datacenter operations. He has been working with Zabbix since version 2.0, has planned and deployed one large MSP installation, and is now the lead monitoring architect for his company's Zabbix deployment.
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10 m

Lightning Talk: Generating an Advanced Network Topology Overview for Zabbix Hosts

During my speech, I will present a custom solution for visualizing network connections between monitored hosts. The solution enables a more advanced overview and analysis of the endpoints and connections monitored by Zabbix.

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Linus Brimstedt

CTO, Ellos Group AB, Sweden

Linus has been working with ecommerce development, operations, and monitoring for 25 years, and has been a happy Zabbix user for 15 years.
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Lightning Talk: The Hard Questions of Windows Server Monitoring

This presentation will cover a set of tips and tricks for Windows monitoring based on my personal experience with Windows environments.

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Giors Geks

IT Manager, Central Financial and Contract Agency, Latvia

Giors has 15 years of experience in Zabbix monitoring, mostly Windows servers.
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Day 1: Oct 4, 2024 - BUSINESS TRACK

Riga (GMT+3)
30 m

The Evolution of the IT Monitoring Landscape

The presentation will focus on the latest trends in the global ICT monitoring market. During the speech we will also present the results of ICT monitoring survey which included the participation of over 100 global enterprise organizations.

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Luciano Alves

CEO, Zabbix Latam, Brazil

Luciano is one of the first official Zabbix-certified instructors and has trained professionals across multiple Latin American countries. As CEO of Zabbix's Latin American offices in Brazil and Mexico, he oversees the company's operations throughout the region.
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30 m

Case Study: Monitoring Public Transportation

This case study will cover public transport fleet monitoring in Flanders, Belgium. Learn how Zabbix-ready networking devices enable the monitoring and management of the bus and tram IToB (IT on board) health.

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Jacek Kondratowicz

Managing Director, ORing Industrial Networking, Poland

Jacek is a Managing Director overseeing business operations and development, key account management, and project leadership across Europe. An engineer with over 10 years of experience, he specializes in industrial communication, IoT, and control systems for applications in production automation, smart cities, public transportation, power substations, and renewable energy infrastructure. He also has extensive expertise in smart streetlight control systems and industry standards.
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30 m

Zabbix for MSPs

Having a flexible and scalable monitoring solution is extremely vital for MSP environments, where monitoring is performed on a wide variety of customer infrastructures. This presentation will cover how various Zabbix features, from authentication mechanisms to automatic remediation and visualization, make Zabbix the perfect monitoring solution for MSPs.

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Andre Morton

Founder & CEO, AGM Network Consultancy, United Kingdom

Andre started out studying Network Engineering at the University of Greenwich and then went on to undertake a Masters of Networks and Security at the University of Kent. During his Masters, he was the one-man IT Team for a Child Care agency spanning the UK, and then went on to work at three small IT / MSP companies.
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30 m

Business Impact of Root Cause Problem Detection

Alert storms and alert fatigue are common problems in the monitoring field. Learn how Zabbix solves these problems and reduces time to resolution with root cause detection features.

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Steve Destivelle

CEO, IZI-IT, France

Steve is a prominent Zabbix evangelist in France.
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When Two OpenSource Projects Meet

The nature of open-source products allows users to leverage a variety of benefits that are simply not present in proprietary software. One of these benefits is the ability to integrate multiple open-source project into your infrastructure with the help of project maintainers and community members. We will explore how Zabbix greatly benefits from the Zabbix Ansible community collection and how the open-source nature of both projects benefits the end-user.

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Evgeny Yurchenko

Founder and Tech Lead, BGmot, Canada

Evgeny is an "old hippo" who is passionate about monitoring and Zabbix.
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Day 2: Oct 5, 2024 - MAIN STAGE

Riga (GMT+3)
60 m

Workshop: Upgrading to Zabbix 7.0: Getting the Most out of the Latest Zabbix Release

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Kaspars Mednis

Chief Trainer, Zabbix, Latvia

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60 m

Workshop: Browser Monitoring in Zabbix 7.0: Use Cases and Examples

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Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs

Technical Support Engineer, Trainer, Zabbix

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30 m

Zabbix Cloud Live Demo

60 m

Lunch

20 m

New Approaches to Reduce Alert Noise with Zabbix and AIOps

Alert fatigue has long been a significant challenge for the DevOps community, often leading to decreased efficiency and increased stress among professionals. In this talk, we will explore innovative strategies leveraging Artificial Intelligence to mitigate alert noise, particularly within the Zabbix monitoring environment.

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Birol Yildiz

CEO and Co-founder, ilert GmbH, Germany

Birol is the Co-founder and CEO of ilert, adeptly steering the company with a rare combination of technical and product expertise. His experience includes a significant role as Chief Product Owner for Big Data products at REWE Digital. With a strong foundation in computer science, Birol bridges the gap between developer and product strategist, constantly striving to innovate and provide customer-centric solutions at ilert.
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20 m

What's up, home? goes Generative AI

How can you use Generative AI for analyzing metrics and events in Zabbix? As usual with his home monitoring experiments, Janne is going far beyond your typical corporate cases - and for free, with a locally run LLM, GPT4All.

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Janne Pikkarainen

Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Forcepoint, Finland

By day, Janne is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cybersecurity company, Forcepoint. By night, he monitors his home with Zabbix and does some weird experiments with it.
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20 m

Leveraging AI for Synthetic Web Monitoring

Unleashing the AI Power in two real scenarios for Zabbix. In the first scenario we will prepare steps for Synthetic Monitoring by analyzing target web page's HTML structure and intelligently identifying relevant elements based on your natural language instructions. The second scenario uses LLM Multimodal Models with Vision Capabilities for quick analysis of multiple graphs simultaneously, providing more contextual information and offering more comprehensive insights by analyzing multiple metrics over extended time periods.

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Nicola Mauri

Monitoring and Security Specialist, Zabbix Certified Professional and Trainer, Quadrata Service Group Srl, Italy

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Angelo Porta

Solution Architect - Zabbix Certified Professional, Quadrata Service Group Srl, Italy

Angelo is a Zabbix Solution Architect with 30+ years of experience at Olivetti, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, designing and implementing complex architectures for data availability, 3DC disaster recovery, and monitoring. He is also actively involved in environmental preservation in Italy.
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30 m

Developing a Custom Zabbix Reporting Solution

During my speech, I will demonstrate my custom solution utilizing the Zabbix API for generating Zabbix reports.

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Nick Corné

Linux DevOps Engineer, Telenet, Belgium

Nick is a certified Zabbix expert and Co-founder of Triple-C, which offers IT solutions for customers, including Zabbix monitoring.
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30 m

Monitoring MariaDB Clusters and MariaDB MaxScale with Zabbix

This talk is about how to monitor and manage MariaDB Server Clusters running with the MariaDB MaxScale database proxy. This is somewhat different from working with a single MariaDB Server, and this talk explains why. I will also show how MariaDB MaxScale, which also monitors the MariaDB Servers, comes into the picture. Managing failover, monitoring database traffic, and routing and load balancing are some other topics I will explore.

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Anders Karlsson

Principal Sales Engineer, MariaDB Corporation, Sweden

Anders is an experienced Database Sales Engineer and Consultant who has worked with multiple database systems and vendors for more than 40 years. He is now a Sales Engineer for MariaDB in EMEA, covering the Nordic region.
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15 m

Coffee break

20 m

Partner and Trainer Awards

20 m

Zabbix in our Security Operation Center

The power of the Zabbix API, combined with the APIs of the vendors we work with, have allowed us to create centralized dashbords for controlling the CyberSecurity posture of all our customers, regardless of the technologies used. Equally important, they have allowed us to start all the necessary "response" processes from Zabbix.

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Gabriele Minniti

CyberSecurity Expert & CEO, WhySecurity Srl, Italy

Gabriele has been working in IT since end of 1998 and for vendors since 2006. In 2014, he founded WhySecurity in Italy, a company focused on cybersecurity and digital trasformation. He has a strong technical knowledge of networking, infrastructures, and information security combined with business vision.
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Vincenzo Morrone

Software Engineer & Pentester, WhySecurity Srl, Italy

Vincenzo is a passionate Penetration Tester and Software Engineer based in Novara, Italy. With a strong foundation in frontend and backend application development, he specializes in cybersecurity operations and microservice architectures. His educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, and his professional journey has been enriched through hands-on experience in software engineering and penetration testing, where he continually strives to enhance his skills and contribute to the field of cybersecurity.
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20 m

Creating a Horizontally Scalable Zabbix Federated Observability Architecture using a Telemetry Bus

Consolidating multiple Zabbix instances can be beneficial for both scalability and organizational reasons. This presentation will discuss a custom horizontally scalable Zabbix federated observability architecture using a telemetry bus.

Vladimir_Ulogov
Vladimir Ulogov

Lead Architect, Amadeus, USA

Vladimir is a Lead Architect working on enterprise network and observability architectures.
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25 m

Advanced Data Collection with Built-In Zabbix JavaScript Features

JavaScript is an integral part of monitoring with Zabbix. We can use it in items and scripts to extend our Zabbix environment with custom scripting - without ever leaving the frontend. This speech will cover a case study for Alliander, a Dutch power grid supplier. During the speech, we will talk about utilizing Zabbix JavaScript features for advanced metric collection.

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Nathan Liefting

Zabbix Consultant and Trainer, Opensource ICT Solutions, Netherlands

As a full-time Zabbix consultant and trainer, Nathan gets the pleasure of working with Zabbix 40 hours a week, finding every little detail there is to know about the product. Together with Brian van Baekel he has written the Zabbix 5 and 6 cookbooks, with version 7 either coming or released by now.
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Edwin Muller

Consultant Telecom Slimme Meters, Alliander Telecom, Netherlands

With over two decades of experience in the energy industry, Edwin Muller is a seasoned professional with a keen eye for data-driven insights. His main knowledge spans wholesale and residential smart metering, where he has honed his expertise in monitoring and analyzing field assets. In the past decade, he has focused his efforts on mobile communication, staying ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving domain. Data is a true passion, and he thrives on leveraging cutting-edge tools to extract valuable insights from complex datasets. Recently, he has been utilizing the power of AWS Snowflake, PowerBI, and Zabbix to streamline data management, monitoring, and visualization processes.
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15 m

Zabbix Outside TCP/IP – Monitoring Pressure, Humidity, Electricity, and Everything Beyond IT

Zabbix provides the tools necessary to expand monitoring beyond the typical IT infrastructure. This presentation will cover multiple unique monitoring use cases and a custom hardware solution used for integrating Zabbix with a variety of non-IT components, such as industrial systems.

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Marcin Gosiewski

Co-owner, BV Grupa s.c., Poland

An IT professional and consultant, Marcin is the Founder of data storage-oriented company BiG Vent and a Co-owner of BV Grupa.
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30 m

Coffee break

20 m

Zabbix and Model Driven Telemetry

Model driven telemetry (MDT) enables data streaming from an endpoint to a receiver, allowing near real-time data collection and monitoring. This speech will show how Zabbix integrates with MDT while enumerating the key benefits of using such an approach.

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Roberto Suárez Soto

Team Lead System Administrator, Allenta Consulting, Spain

Roberto became interested in Linux around 1996 and started working as a Linux sysadmin in 2001. He led the sysadmin team at Allenta from 2005 to mid-2024, when he switched roles to become the lead of the Observability and Monitoring team. Though Roberto is now focused on Zabbix, he still feels that he is a sysadmin at heart.
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Lightning Talk: Creating an Open-Source Zabbix Book

This presentation is about how to approach writing a book in an open-source format - in this case, a book on Zabbix 7.0. It will cover conceptual and technical details on how to set up a book that is written in markdown and built automatically in static HTML.

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Patrik Uytterhoeven

IT Consultant and Zabbix Trainer, Open-Future, Belgium

Patrik has been a Zabbix trainer and IT consultant at open-future for 11 years.
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