Zabbix Summit 2020 Agenda

Zabbix Summit is a 1-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.

October 30

Zabbix Japan

Kodai Terashima
Kodai Terashima

CEO, Zabbix Japan, Japan

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Minimizing Monitoring Downtime - How to Build Zabbix HA Cluster

Toshihiro will present how to realize continuous monitoring service with Zabbix and HA cluster software.

Toshihiro Akamatsu
Toshihiro Akamatsu

Chief Engineer, SRA OSS, Inc. Japan, Japan

As s Zabbix Certified Professional, Toshihiro Akamatsu is in charge of technical support and construction work for various OSS middleware companies focused on Zabbix.
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Zabbix in China

China has become one of the largest user areas of Zabbix and one of the biggest long-term opportunities for Zabbix, Rong will share with us the development of Zabbix in China. During the cooperation between Zabbix and Grandage, we constantly explore the needs of domestic users and the market, then share the feedback of domestic users to Zabbix. He is going to explain how to obtain the fastest solution, professional advice and technical support in the process of using Zabbix. On the other side, we provide enterprise customers with 7*24 comprehensive guarantee, Moreover, Rong will share the development and upgrade of Zabbix partner system, etc,.

Yaoru Rong
Yaoru Rong

CTO, Grandage, China

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Open Source Report Component based on Zabbix——ZbxTable

Zbxtable is an open-source report component based on Zabbix and developed by Zhang Shihong, which enables to export of the report of monitoring historical data, and analysis and export of alarm messages. It expands the function of GraphTree and is a powerful supplement to platform statistics and alarm data statistics. In this speech, Zhang will explain the function of ZbxTable in detail, including exporting the detailed data and trend data of monitoring indicators in a specific time period to xlsx, exporting the warning messages of Zabbix in a specific time period to xlsx, analyzing the alarm messages in a specific period of time, TOP10 of alerting, and exporting the inspection report according to the host group, making better use of Zabbix.

Zhang Shihong
Zhang Shihong

Expert from China Community and 4-time Zabbix China Conference speaker(2017-2020), experience with Zabbix for 6 years, author of cactifans, go language enthusiast and DevOps practitioner.
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Monitoring evolution for cloud native environments

China Mobile Online Service is responsible for the world's largest call centre, serving 910 million users in China. The current unified monitoring and alarm platform has 7 million monitoring indicators, generating 1.98 million alarms every day and processing 55 billion logs every day. In traditional enterprises, how to build a large-scale monitoring system and how to ensure the stability of the system? How to upgrade the capability of monitoring and alarm in the company's overall cloud-native transformation? Let me share the construction process in detail.

Wang Manxue
Wang Manxue

Technical Manager, China Mobile Online Service, China

Wang Manxue is working as a Technical Manager in China Mobile Online Service. She is responsible for the stability improvement of the world's largest call platform and the construction of the operation and maintenance platform.
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Coffee break 45 min

The Roadmap to Zabbix 6.0.

Alexei Vladishev
Alexei Vladishev

Founder and 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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What's New in Zabbix 5.2

This speech will cover multiple technical topics and give a hands-on introduction to the new release and benefit from the latest features.

Edgars Melveris
Edgars Melveris

Technical Support Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Edgars has more than 10 years of experience as a System Administrator and 7 years of experience working with Zabbix monitoring solution. He is knowledgeable in administering Linux and networking. Edgars is Zabbix Technical Support Engineer and Certified Trainer.
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Let me Subscribe - Zabbix Masters IoT Topics

The talk will cover IoT and the particular role of the MQTT protocol in home automation, etc., and the Modbus protocol. There will be some details/intro about MQTT and the purpose of a Message Broker. As well as, the MQTT support in Zabbix Agent 2 and Zabbix MQTT Support 5.2.

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 monitoring of their IT-Infrastructure, 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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User Roles for the Enterprise

The speech will cover new features to improve the monitoring team daily work around the globe. How to set user roles for different team members, add language settings, and per-user timezones.

Artūrs Lontons
Artūrs Lontons

Technical Support Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Arturs is an IT engineer by education and trade. As a certified IT project manager, over the years he has obtained vast experience in both IT support, design of business processes and as a part of multiple IT support teams in many different fields, from retail to aviation. Arturs started working in Zabbix as a support engineer and quickly found his passion for teaching the Zabbix community about different monitoring approaches, best troubleshooting methods and providing other insights into the internal mechanisms of the product. As a Zabbix Certified Trainer, Arturs now has the opportunity to share his knowledge with the community and Zabbix customers all over the globe.
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Coffee Break 10 min

Zabbix - Let's Get Down to Business

Alexander Sergunin
Alexander Sergunin

Head of Sales, Zabbix, Latvia

Having joined the company back in 2012, Alex navigated the sales and account management for a good while. Using that experience he will guide you through the customer experience in Zabbix.
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Lift and Shift your Zabbix to Oracle Cloud with MySQL Database Service

Do you love your Zabbix monitoring but you are tired of administering the infrastructure on your own? Would you prefer to gain time to focus on real monitoring activities rather than costly platform upgrades? Learn how you can easily lift and shift your MySQL-based Zabbix installation stack to Oracle Cloud. You will learn how to lift and shift both your application layer, leveraging the Zabbix image from Oracle Cloud Marketplace, and your database layer, leveraging MySQL Database Service, the newest managed offering in Oracle Cloud-based on MySQL Enterprise offer.

Vittorio Cioe
Vittorio Cioe

Sr.Presales Consultant, 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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Take Advantage of Zabbix Services Online

Sergejs Sorokins
Sergejs Sorokins

Business Development Director, Zabbix, Latvia

With a background in business administration and extensive experience in the financial sector, Sergey works for Zabbix for over 8 years now. Sergey is responsible for global partner network development, for cooperation and joint projects with software and hardware vendors, and some key customer projects.
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Keep All Secrets Encrypted and Secure

Find out all about new security functions featured in the latest Zabbix release.

 Kaspars  Mednis
Kaspars Mednis

Senior 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 the banking sector, administering and monitoring bank network infrastructure. Kaspars is a Zabbix Support Engineer and Certified Trainer.
Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs
Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs

Technical Support Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Aleksandrs has more than 10 years experience in IT, providing support on a vast list of services, starting from 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. All while using Zabbix!
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Lunch

Managing Complexity in Zabbix Installations with Splunk

In this talk Christian will explain how a big data analytics engine can be used to optimize large and complex Zabbix installations: keeping track of the amount and kind of problems over time, top alert producers and much more. He will also show how to optimize and analyze vital Zabbix runtime parameters, such as „unsupported items“, repeatedly happening host availability issues, misconfigured agents and Zabbix Queue entries. We employ Splunk to help our customers operate Zabbix in an optimal way.

Christian Anton
Christian Anton

Head of Monitoring & Automation, Secadm GmbH, Germany

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Zabbix + H5 Network Performance Intelligence

Integration of H5 Network and Application performance intelligence with Zabbix. Presentation of H5 Network added value to Zabbix users using H5 Appliance and H5 Flow: Comprehensive monitored metrics for in-depth monitoring, troubleshooting and traffic engineering for data, voice and flow. Network and traffic Intelligence for private and cloud networks. Dynamic and cyclic packet capture.

Frédéric Guillois
Frédéric Guillois

H5 Network President, 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 the 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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Zabbix Migration in a Mid-Sized Bank Environment

A real CheckMK/libreNMS to Zabbix migration for a mid-sized Italian bank (1700 branches, many thousands servers and switches). The customer needed a very robust architecture and many ancillary services around the Zabbix engine for managing a robust and error-free configuration.

Angelo Porta
Angelo Porta

Architect, Quadrata, Italy

Angelo has 30+ years experience working at Olivetti, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard in complex architecture for data availability, 3DC disaster recovery and DC monitoring.
Dimitri Bellini
Dimitri Bellini

System Integrator, Quadrata, Italy

Quadrata provides a wide range of IT-related services to small and medium-size businesses in Italy. From very simple to very complex problems, Quadrata delivers reliable and cost-effective solutions to satisfy every customer need. With over 15 years of experience in IT sector, Quadrata offers a vast range.
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Integrating Zabbix Into Your IT Ecosystem - A to Z

Maybe you are thinking towards mixing the value of your CMDB data into Zabbix. Or you want to monitor real user experience. And fancy some cool dashboards. What does it take to deeply integrate Zabbix within your IT ecosystem and your daily ops? What should be leveraging that juicy data - and how to do it, step by step. At the start, Eric has to provide a lot of explanation to his customers on what should be expected of current integrations with helpdesk systems like service now or Jira, and what they should do about the additional functionality they usually request. What he wants to do here is to explain (from the integrator point of view) the design choices, timeframe and development diary he had to go through when choosing to integrate Zabbix with H5 audit (network analytics, NPM), and Zabbix with iTOP (ITSM and CMDB), and the use cases for it.

Eric Doan
Eric Doan

CTO, AXEL IT, France

Eric has 20 years working in the monitoring field and 10 years of Zabbix. AXEL IT is delivering and promoting Zabbix in France as one of Zabbix premium partners.
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Aranet: A Wireless IoT Sensor Platform

Wherever you need to measure anything – temperature, air quality, light, or any other physical parameter – Aranet’s main mission is to deliver these measurements simply, easily and above all – wirelessly. In this presentation, Toms will introduce how their technology works and he will show some examples from saving time and money in the food retail industry to minimizing risks of COVID19 spread indoors.

Toms Reksna
Toms Reksna

Marketing and Business Development Director, Aranet, Latvia

With an educational background in both physics and business, Toms has been working in SAF Tehnika for a combined time of almost 5 years. Bringing technical and business knowledge together with my focus over the last 3 years has been to develop SAF Tehnika’s wireless IoT brand Aranet in international retail, building management, horticulture, and other industrial markets.
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Coffee break 10 min

Real-time Streaming of Zabbix Metrics to Big Data Platforms

This is the complete story of streaming Zabbix metrics to Big Data platform in Cloneye platform. We will discuss the rationale behind the project, the challenges we faced and the solutions we found with all implementation details.

Levent  Karakaş
Levent Karakaş

Software Development Manager, CLONERA, Turkey

Levent has 20+ years of experience in software development. He is a Zabbix Certified Expert who is actively working on projects around Zabbix.
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Zabbix in Brazil

Luciano Alves
Luciano Alves

CEO, Zabbix Latam, Brazil

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Simple Way to Monitoring Modern Applications

In this presentation Daniel will show you a simple way to monitoring any application from inside out, using a simple Zabbix component. We are able to get deep metrics from our application and centralize thresholds on Zabbix Server.

Daniel Nasiloski
Daniel Nasiloski

Technical Engineer, Zabbix Latam, Brazil

Daniel is a Technical Engineer at Zabbix Latam, 8 years of experience in working with Zabbix, node-js, react-js developer.
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Zabbix as an IOT data Processing and Notification Powerhouse

Zabbix has an architecture and a set of capabilities that are a perfect fit for IOT telemetry data processing. In this presentation, Luis will come up with the reasons behind that statement using real live scenarios with all types of transport mechanisms.

Luis	de la Torre
Luis de la Torre

Presales Director, Imagunet, Colombia

Luis has been leading solutions architect and presales teams for the last 10 years focusing on building reliable solutions for Telecommunications, Finance, Logistics and Manufacturing industries. For the past 3 years, he is focusing on making Zabbix the default choice for monitoring in Colombia and the rest of Latin America.
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Advanced Automated Data Collection in Zabbix Using Only Frontend Features

The purpose of the presentation will be to present the new features of the Zabbix version 5.0 that makes it possible to extract data from any application and organize it only using frontend zabbix features. We will present a real scenario of Zabbix data extraction of covid-19 in the world through an external API where we will provide all the information, alerts and notifications

Vih Murmann
Vih Murmann

Unirede, Brazil

Professional with fifteen years of experience in the area of ​​information technology, specialist in free software solutions, over that time developed projects for medium and large customers all over Brazil and abroad. Has extensive experience in software for control, monitoring, management of computer networks and operating systems. For more than ten years, has been providing various training courses, including Linux, PfSense®, Zabbix, Freebsd, Samba 4, Zimbra and ProxMox, among others. Zabbix Certified Trainer.
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Just Integrate It

Alexander will talk about the new Zabbix scope of work Integrations. What has been accomplished since the inception of the integration team. And finally how community involvement makes integrations better.

Aleksandrs Larionovs
Aleksandrs Larionovs

Head of Integration team, Zabbix, Latvia

Integration Team manager in Zabbix; Love for opensource is what first got me into Zabbix, but it’s the people and culture which have kept me hooked ever since. As an Integration team manager for Zabbix, I love collaborating with the community and ensure that the development processes are running. I am really passionate about working out how best to help my team to find new and valuable ways to create integrations and combine Zabbix and community together. While working in Zabbix I find it incredibly rewarding to work with the wider industry to ensure monitoring to work its magic and help change lives for the better.
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Coffee Break 10 min

Supercharge Zabbix with Powerful Insights

A new set of trigger functions for long term analysis of trend data will allow Zabbix to analyze historical data and generate alerts on detected anomalies.

Aleksandrs  Kalimulins
Aleksandrs Kalimulins

C Developer, Zabbix, Latvia

Alex is a developer at Zabbix with more than 20 years of software engineering experience. Before joining Zabbix in 2018, he worked in the financial sector with a focus on real-time processing systems.
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Getting More by Doing Less - Zabbix Usability Improvements

Making Zabbix interface even friendlier, configuration changes - easier and finding answers faster with new Zabbix usability improvements.

 Aleksandrs  Petrovs-Gavrilovs
Aleksandrs Petrovs-Gavrilovs

Technical Support Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Aleksandrs has more than 10 years experience in IT, providing support on a vast list of services, starting from 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. All while using Zabbix! Eventually, the wish of providing high-quality support in a constantly evolving environment of Zabbix led Aleksandrs on the path of becoming a Technical Support Engineer for Zabbix customers, which was followed by Zabbix Expert and Trainer certifications, allowing to share experience and knowledge of Zabbix all around the globe.
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Scaling Zabbix With Containers

The goal of the presentation is to show and explain how a new approach with Zabbix in High Availability works. Robert will talk about challenges when implementing Zabbix using Docker Swarm with CI / CD. The technologies like Containers, Docker Swarm, Gitlab, CI/CD were used.

Robert Silva
Robert Silva

Team Leader, JLCP Treinamentos e Serviços em TI, Brazil

Zabbix Expert and Zabbix Trainer with more than 9 years of experience in IT, working with networking, server administration, virtualization, containers and monitoring; Last years with a focus in Zabbix and automating using Python for delivering custom solutions. Robert was a speaker on Zabbix Conference LatAm and Zabbix Meetups in Brazil.
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Coffee Break 10 min

Zabbix & Security - Making Zabbix Much Better

Luiz will talk about one of Zabbix missteps and how to solve it in a simple way.

Luiz	Sales
Luiz Sales

CEO, ServiceMonit, Brazil

Luiz is a longtime Zabbix user, Technology Enthusiast, Lover of the impossible.
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The Roadmap to Zabbix 6.0.

Alexei Vladishev
Alexei Vladishev

Founder and 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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SAF Products Integration into Zabbix

Top of the line point-to-point microwave equipment manufacturer SAF Tehnika has decided to partner with Zabbix to provide NMS capabilities to its end customers. SAF Tehnika appreciates Zabbix’s customizability, scalability, ease of templates design, and integration of SAF products. Tatjana will provide SAF Tehnika and its products overview, reasons for SAF Tehnika and Zabbix partnership, and share SAF Tehnika's experience in integrating its products into Zabbix.

Tatjana Dunce
Tatjana Dunce

Technical Services Director, SAF North America, The USA

Tatjana is an experienced telecommunications engineer, who is developing SAF Services business and leads the team that handles technical support, training, and pre-configuration services in SAF North America. In her prior role as a Senior Support Engineer at SAF, she travelled throughout North America supporting SAF’s customers and had the opportunity to develop and deliver several certification courses of SAF products. Tatjana has been working for SAF Tehnika for 10 years in different roles.
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What's New in Zabbix 5.2

Edgars Melveris
Edgars Melveris

Technical Support Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Edgars has more than 10 years of experience as a System Administrator and 7 years of experience working with Zabbix monitoring solution. He is knowledgeable in administering Linux and networking. Edgars is Zabbix Technical Support Engineer and Certified Trainer.
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Zabbix - Let's Get Down to Business

Alexander Sergunin
Alexander Sergunin

Head of Sales, Zabbix, Latvia

Having joined the company back in 2012, Alex navigated the sales and account management for a good while. Using that experience he will guide you through the customer experience in Zabbix.
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Coffee Break 10 min

Data Solution for Solar Energy Application

Morningstar, the World's Leading Supplier of Solar Controllers for remote solar power systems, has partnered with Zabbix to provide pre-configured integration of their data-enabled solar power products with the Zabbix network monitoring solution. Now, both power system data and network performance metrics integrate seamlessly to allow remote solar systems to be monitored and managed from a single software platform on the premise or in the cloud, using solutions from Zabbix. In this presentation, we'll give an overview of Morningstar's diverse product line and the industry applications they support. We'll also see how the Zabbix network monitor can be used to manage and log time-series data using SNMP and MODBUS protocols for powerful and scalable system oversight and trend analysis.

Brad Berwald
Brad Berwald

Head of Product Management Team, Morningstar,Inc, The USA

As head of the Product Management team at Morningstar, Brad brings over 18 years of technical sales experience in the RE power electronics industry to Morningstar Corporation. His expertise in Global Account Management, Technical Marketing & Training, as well as product development, has enabled him to grow and take on many new challenges at Morningstar. In his current role, Brad is helping Morningstar grow its product portfolio to meet the evolving needs of the remote power industry. Brad holds a BSEE and an MBA from Alfred University. His contributions have assisted Morningstar Corporation in becoming the world’s leader in solar charge controllers and inverters.
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Bringing Zabbix to Kubernetes, the Zabbix Operator

This talk will cover the ins and outs of the Zabbix Kubernetes Operator and how to extend its configuration using tools like Ansible and Python.

Tyler French
Tyler French

Technical Lead of Automations, Converge TP, The USA

Tyler is an 8-year veteran of the Managed Services field who has been running Zabbix in production for 4 of those years. He works with various open-source projects on a daily basis building services at scale.
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User Roles for the Enterprise

Artūrs Lontons
Artūrs Lontons

Technical Support Engineer, Zabbix, Latvia

Arturs is an IT engineer by education and trade. As a certified IT project manager, over the years he has obtained vast experience in both IT support, design of business processes and as a part of multiple IT support teams in many different fields, from retail to aviation. Arturs started working in Zabbix as a support engineer and quickly found his passion for teaching the Zabbix community about different monitoring approaches, best troubleshooting methods and providing other insights into the internal mechanisms of the product. As a Zabbix Certified Trainer, Arturs now has the opportunity to share his knowledge with the community and Zabbix customers all over the globe.
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