12 What's new in Zabbix 5.4.7

Items

VMware hypervisor maintenance monitoring

The new vmware.hv.maintenance[] item returns '0' when the hypervisor is not in maintenance and '1' when the hypervisor is in maintenance.

VMware system health monitoring

The new vmware.hv.sensors.get[] item returns a JSON with various VMware hardware system health data.

Docker container statistics

The docker.container_stats [] item now also returns CPU usage in percentage as part of container resource usage statistics.

Hostname

The system.hostname[] item can now return only shorthost (part of the hostname before the first dot) and, optionally, transform the hostname into lowercase. See Zabbix agent items for details.

Templates

VMware VeloCloud monitoring

A template VMWare SD-WAN VeloCloud by HTTP is now available for out-of-the-box monitoring of VMWare SD-WAN VeloCloud via HTTP.

You can get this template:

• In Configuration → Templates in new installations;
• If you are upgrading from previous versions, you can download new templates from Zabbix Git repository or find them in the templates directory of the downloaded latest Zabbix version. Then, while in Configuration → Templates you can import them manually into Zabbix.