Zabbix Roadmap

Zabbix 4.4

ETA: September, 2019

Out of the box monitoring
- New templates
  New set of templates will be created for monitoring of popular applications, cloud services and Kubernetes.
Better workflow
- Guidelines for template creators
  A comprehensive guide having recommendations and best practices for template creators will be created and supported by Zabbix. Let’s make all templates high quality and consistent!
- Versioning for templates
  That is probably most important functionality planned in Zabbix 4.4. It will enable clear workflow for template management, it will also simplify daily maintenance of Zabbix systems very much.
- Much more simple JSON/Yaml templates
  Structure of templates will be greatly simplified to have absolute minimum of mandatory attributes and use.
- Test metrics from UI
  Ability to test a host or template metric straight from UI will greatly simplify creation of new metrics.
Smart problem and anomaly detection
- Baseline monitoring
  New algorithms for data processing will allow automatic problem and anomaly detection based on analysis of historical data. No manual setting of thresholds is needed anymore!
Extreme flexibility
- New syntax for trigger expressions
  ZBXNEXT-35, 3441, 3446 It would enable unlimited capabilities for problem detection and aggregation. Same syntax will be used also for calculated and aggregated metrics as well as for visualization capabilities of the UI.
- Merge calculated and aggregated items
  ZBXNEXT-292, 1521, 1829, 1911, 2463, 3441, 3444, 3904 Aggregated and calculated items are very close by their nature, so this step is quite logical.
Enhanced visualization
- Enhanced graphs
  Existing functionality will be extended to support new types of graphs: stacked, bar graphs.
- Aggregation functions for graphs
  Graphs will support ability to apply various functions for data aggregation and ability to select Top N metrics.
- Replace screens with dashboards
  It is time to merge functionality of screens with dashboards and make them much easier to use and access.
- Vector graphs everywhere
  Replace existing PNG graphs with vector based graphics.
- New dashboard widgets
  Geographical maps, better visualization of problems and metric data and more.
- Support of annotations
  ZBXNEXT-117 Users will be able to add annotations to dashboard graphs.
Plugins
- Webhooks for actions
  Great for integration with 3rd party notification channels.
- ZBXNEXT-3496 Ability to extend context and top level menus
  Another way of extending Zabbix UI and context menus without touching Zabbix code.
Minor improvements
- Various improvements
  Other minor enhancements and improvements.

Zabbix 5.0 LTS

ETA: March, 2020

Advanced event correlation
- ZBXNEXT-46, 1891 Host and proxy level dependencies.
  It says it all.
Security and integrity
- ZBXNEXT-2815 API audit records for all operations
  All API operations will be reflected in the audit records with easy access.
Scalability, Redundancy, HA and DM
- Cover most of use cases related to scalability, HA and DM
Minor improvements
- Various improvements
  Other minor enhancements and improvements.

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Zabbix Roadmap

Zabbix 4.4

ETA: September, 2019

Out of the box monitoring

Better workflow

Smart problem and anomaly detection

Extreme flexibility

Enhanced visualization

Plugins

Minor improvements

Zabbix 5.0 LTS

ETA: March, 2020

Advanced event correlation

Security and integrity

Scalability, Redundancy, HA and DM

Minor improvements

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