10 Template changes

This page lists all changes to the stock templates that are shipped with Zabbix.

Upgrading to the latest Zabbix version will not automatically upgrade the templates used. It is suggested to modify the templates in existing installations by downloading the latest templates from the Zabbix Git repository and importing them manually into Zabbix.

If templates with the same names already exist, the Delete missing options should be checked when importing to achieve a clean import. This way, the old items that are no longer in the updated template will be removed (note that it will mean losing history of these old items).

Changes in 7.0.0

New templates

• Website by Browser template has been added for monitoring complex websites and web applications.

Updated templates

• Zabbix server health, Remote Zabbix server health, Zabbix proxy health, and Remote Zabbix proxy health templates have been updated according to the changes in network discovery. The item/trigger for monitoring the discoverer process (now removed) have been replaced by items/triggers to measure the process utilization of discovery manager and discovery worker respectively. A new internal item has been added for monitoring the discovery queue.
• MongoDB node by Zabbix agent 2 template item type of mongodb.version has been changed from Dependent item to Zabbix agent.
• Oracle by Zabbix agent 2 template item type of oracle.version has been changed from Dependent item to Zabbix agent.
• All templates containing dashboard widgets have been updated according to the Communication framework for widgets feature. Template dashboard widget elements have been updated to reflect widget field changes in template dashboards.
• Azure by HTTP template has been updated according to the changes to the Plain text widget. The template dashboard widget name and fields elements have been updated to reflect the replacement of the Plain text widget with the Item history widget.

Changes in 7.0.1

New templates

• Azure VM Scale Set by HTTP, a supplement to the Azure by HTTP template set.
• Jira Data Center by JMX, a template for monitoring Jira Data Center health.

Updated templates

The templates Zabbix server health, Remote Zabbix server health, Zabbix proxy health, and Remote Zabbix proxy health have been updated for improved visual representation by transferring item data visualizations from graphs to dashboard widgets and regrouping the displayed metrics.

Changes in 7.0.2

New templates

• AWS Lambda by HTTP, a template for monitoring AWS Lambda metrics.

Changes in 7.0.4

New templates

• GitHub repository by HTTP, a template for monitoring GitHub repositories.
• Microsoft 365 reports by HTTP, a template for monitoring Microsoft 365 services.

Updated templates

The templates within the VMware and VMware FQDN template sets have been updated and supplemented with several improvements including the following:

• new LLD rules "VMware overall health discovery" and "VMware alarm discovery", as well as new dashboards for all VMware templates;
• new items about network statistics - as part of the VMware Hypervisor template;
• new items for getting information about snapshots and triggers for free disk space, as well as an update for the trigger “VM has been restarted” - as part of the VMware Guest template.

Changes in 7.0.5

New templates

• Huawei OceanStor V6 by SNMP, a template for monitoring SAN Huawei OceanStor V6.

Updated templates

• In all APC templates, the discovery rule for external defective battery packs has been supplemented with a filter to avoid creating unsupported items.
• In the templates MSSQL by Zabbix agent 2 and MSSQL by ODBC, a timeout has been added and certain item keys have been adjusted to increase monitoring stability.

Changes in 7.0.6

New templates

• Nutanix Prism Element by HTTP, a template set that also includes the templates Nutanix Cluster Prism Element by HTTP and Nutanix Host Prism Element by HTTP.

In addition, a number of active agent templates have been added for LAMP stack monitoring:

• Apache by Zabbix agent active
• MySQL by Zabbix agent active
• MySQL by Zabbix agent 2 active
• Nginx by Zabbix agent active
• PHP-FPM by Zabbix agent active
• PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent active
• PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 active

Updated templates

• The template VMware Hypervisor within the VMware and VMware FQDN template sets has been updated with the option to be used as a standalone template.
• Proxmox VE by HTTP has been updated with new items and trigger prototypes for disk space usage in LXC containers.
• In the template MSSQL by ODBC, the performance counter query has been updated to improve data retrieval. Both MSSQL by ODBC and MSSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template documentation has been reviewed and updated.

Changes in 7.0.7

Updated templates

• All templates have been updated to reintroduce trigger name prefixes that were removed in Zabbix 7.0.0.