As always the conference was opened with a speech by Alexei Vladishev, the creator of Zabbix, glancing over the accomplishments Zabbix made during the past year, mostly focusing on the features and improvements that await us all in the Zabbix 3.0 release. Zabbix Conference 2015

1. Welcome to Zabbix
Conference 2015!

2. Who am I?
Alexei Vladishev
Creator of Zabbix
CEO, Architect and Product Manager
Twitter: @avladishev

3. Our sponsors

4. Conference stats

5. 183 participants

6. from 28 countries

7. Top five countries
1. ?
2. Germany, Netherlands 12
3. France, Norway 9
4. Italy, Lithuania, Russia 7
5. Japan, UK 5
* excluding Latvia

8. Top five countries
1. Estonia 14
2. Germany, Netherlands 12
3. France, Norway 9
4. Italy, Lithuania, Russia 7
5. Japan, UK 5
* excluding Latvia

9. What’s happened
in 2015

10. More than 100
partners

11. Expansion to the USA
Europe: Riga
Japan: Tokyo
USA: New York City
Zabbix technology evangelist:
Vladimir Ulogov

12. share.zabbix.com
Share everything!
• Templates
• Modules
• HOWTOs

13. How does it work?
1. Login
2. Create description of your listing
3. Upload screenshots, template or add a link to
external resource (GitHub)
4. Done!

14. 3 new features of
Zabbix 3.0

15. Encryption and
authentication

16. Encryption and
authentication
Strong encryption and authentication for all
components based on TLS v1.2
Zabbix
server
AgentAgent
Zabbix
proxy
Agent
TLSTLSTLS
TLS
Zabbix
sender
Zabbix
get
TLS TLS

17. Easy upgrade to better
security
Step 1 Enable end-point to accept both encrypted
and plain text communications
ZABBIX
SERVER
ZABBIX
PROXY
TLS
Plain text

18. Easy upgrade to better
security
Step 2 Configure certificate or PSK based encryption
and authentication
ZABBIX
SERVER
ZABBIX
PROXY
TLS
Plain text
Certificate or PSK Certificate or PSK

19. Easy upgrade to better
security
Step 3 Verify that TLS works and reject plain text
connections
ZABBIX
SERVER
ZABBIX
PROXY
TLS
Plain text
Certificate or PSK Certificate or PSK
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

20. More on new features
today from Rihard & Pavel

21. Interface
Have a look at older versions

22. Zabbix 1.8

23. Zabbix 2.0

24. Zabbix 2.2

25. Zabbix 2.4

26. Very little progress
2009: Zabbix 1.8 2012: Zabbix 2.0
2013: Zabbix 2.2 2014: Zabbix 2.4

27. It’s time to fix it!
Zabbix 3.0

28. Zabbix 3.0: interface

29. Zabbix 3.0: interface

30. Zabbix 3.0: interface

31. Interface: under the hood
• MVC : separation of HTML generation and logic
• Ability to create your own pages
• Ability to extend existing pages

32. Problem detection

33. Simple threshold
0
2,5
5
7,5
10
10:00 10:05 10:10 10:15 10:20 10:25 10:30 10:35 10:40 10:45 10:50
{server:system.cpu.load.last()} > 5

34. Analyse history
0
2,5
5
7,5
10
10:00 10:05 10:10 10:15 10:20 10:25 10:30 10:35 10:40 10:45 10:50 10:55 11:00 11:05 11:10
{server:system.cpu.load.min(10m)} > 5

35. No problem != it’s fixed
0
2,5
5
7,5
10
10:00 10:05 10:10 10:15 10:20 10:25 10:30 10:35 10:40 10:45 10:50
{server:system.cpu.load.last()} > 5 … {server:system.cpu.load.last()} > 1

36. Anomaly detection
0
2,5
5
7,5
10
10:00 10:05 10:10 10:15 10:20 10:25 10:30 10:35 10:40 10:45 10:50 10:55 11:00 11:05 11:10
Compare with 7 days ago

37. Zabbix 3.0:
Problem & trend prediction!

38. When we hit a
threshold?

39. What’s metric
value in the future?

40. Where is Zabbix
3.0?

41. Zabbix 3.0alpha2
released

42. Why not beta? What’s
missing
1. Front-end improvements
2. Personalised maps, screens and slideshows
3. Bunch of other smaller features
4. Then -> Beta -> RC -> Stable release!

43. Good things are
worth waiting for.

44. Enjoy the
conference!