What's new in Zabbix 6.2

Reduce unwanted noise by suppressing irrelevant Zabbix problems

Zabbix admins now have the ability to hide irrelevant problems by suppressing them:

• Suppress problems until a specific point in time
• Suppress problems indefinitely, until the suppression is manually removed
• The action operations related to the suppressed problems will be paused until the problems are unsuppressed
• Choose to hide or display suppressed problems in the Problems section

Keep your secrets secure in the CyberArk vault

In addition to the previously supported HashiCorp vault, Zabbix 6.2 adds official support for secret storage in CyberArk vault:

• Select between CyberArk and HashiCorp vault
• Encrypt connections to the CyberArk vault with vault certificates
• Secure your database credentials and user macros
• It is possible to configure and retrieve the Zabbix vault provider via Zabbix API

Official AWS EC2 template

Monitor your AWS EC2 instance and the attached AWS EBS volumes with the official Zabbix AWS EC2 template:

• Monitor AWS EC2 CPU, network, Disk, status and many other metrics
• Discover and monitor AWS EBS volumes
• Discover and monitor AWS EC2 alarms and react to alarm status changes

Synchronize Zabbix proxy configuration from Zabbix frontend

Zabbix proxy management has never been easier! Now configuration for your proxies can be instantly reloaded from Zabbix frontend:

• Zabbix proxy configuration can now be refreshed from the Administration - Proxies section
• Zabbix proxy configuration can be refreshed from the command line directly on Zabbix server
• Zabbix proxy configuration can be refreshed by using Zabbix API
• Central configuration refresh is supported by both active and passive proxies

More control over your discovered hosts

Hosts discovered from host prototypes now support manual editing of templates, tags and user macros:

• Manually link templates to hosts discovered from host prototypes
• Ability to create and modify user macros on hosts created from host prototypes
• Additional tags can now be created on hosts created from host prototypes
• API host methods have been extended to support manual linkage of templates to hosts created from host prototypes

Extended VMware monitoring

Hosts created by using the Zabbix VMware monitoring features can now be further modified:

• Manually assign additional templates to the discovered VMware hosts
• Create and modify user macros on the discovered VMware hosts
• Create additional tags on the discovered VMware hosts

VMware monitoring has been extended to support many new items and low-level discovery rules. This enables the monitoring of new metrics, such as:

• VMware alarm status
• Number and timestamp of VMware snapshots
• Hypervisor network interface metrics
• VMware vSphere Distributed Switch port metrics
• Datastore IOPS read/write metrics
• Datastore performance counters
• VMware guest state
• And many other items

The discovery of VMware hosts can now be filtered based on their power state.

Track your active checks

Zabbix active agent check status can now be observed when hovering over the Zabbix agent interface icon:

• Track the availability of your passive and active agent checks directly from Zabbix frontend
• Customizable Zabbix agent heartbeat period is available in the agent configuration file
• A new internal item is available for active agent check status monitoring
• The Zabbix active agent check status can also be retrieved by Zabbix API

Zabbix performance improvements and internal changes

Instead of periodically reloading the full Zabbix configuration data, Zabbix server now receives only the latest configuration changes:

• Configuration cache will support incremental updates
• The new configuration synchronization logic greatly improves performance on large Zabbix instances

The initial item check logic has been improved and newly created items now receive their first metrics within a minute after their creation, as opposed to being checked at a random point in time within the item's update interval:

• New items are now checked within a minute after their creation

The newly introduced user macro cache reduces the configuration cache locking and, therefore, improves overall Zabbix performance:

• New User Macro cache

Multiple changes to the Zabbix library structure:

• Improved Zabbix library structure
• Removed circular Zabbix library dependencies

Improved execute now usability and behavior

The Execute now button, used to immediately retrieve a metric, is now available from the Latest data section:

• Execute now button added to the Latest data section
• Items that do not support Execute now will be ignored, instead of displaying an error message
• A warning will be displayed if a user attempts to use the Execute now feature on an item that does not support it
• The Execute now permission has been added to the list of permissions available when customizing a Zabbix role

Separate host and template groups

In order to facilitate easier host and template filtering, templates are now grouped in template groups, instead of host groups:

• New Template groups section under the Configuration menu
• During the upgrade process existing templates will be moved to Template groups
• Importing templates and hosts from previous Zabbix versions are fully supported and appropriate groups will be created from the import file
• Role-based access permissions can be assigned for the Template groups section
• New Template group API methods can be used to create, modify and retrieve template groups

Support of multiple LDAP servers for user authentication

Multiple LDAP servers can now be defined and saved under Authentication - LDAP settings:

• Improved security and compliance with company policies where organizational units authenticate via different LDAP servers
• Seamlessly switch user authentication between LDAP servers after LDAP server migration or update

Additional templates and integrations

Zabbix 6.2 comes pre-packaged with many new templates for the most popular vendors:

• Envoy proxy
• HashiCorp Consul
• AWS EC2 Template
• Proxmox
• CockroachDB
• TrueNAS
• HPE MSA 2060 & 2040
• HPE Primera
• Improved S.M.A.R.T. monitoring template

Zabbix 6.2 introduces a webhook integration for the GLPI IT Asset Management solution. This webhook can be used to forward problems created in Zabbix to the GLPi Assistance section.