The current Long Term Support (LTS) version series of Zabbix is 6.0, released in February 2022. The previous LTS version was 5.0, released in May 2020. Many of us are upgrading the Zabbix installation from 5.0 to 6.0 series these days, here is one catch to be aware of. In 5.0, when viewing graphs of […]
Category: Monitoring
Tag Guidelines in Zabbix
This is a tag-specific summary from the official Zabbix guidelines documentation, based on the situation as of Zabbix 6.0 LTS. Note: “Please note that this model might become enforced in the future Zabbix releases. Templates that do not follow specified rules will need to be updated.“ Tag name and value format lowercase only allowed characters: […]
Moving Zabbix Database
In the series “why wouldn’t I put this out public instead of just saving it to my own notes”: Moving the Zabbix database to a new database server. Old server: Debian Linux 9, running MariaDB 10.1.48 New server: Debian Linux 11, running MariaDB 10.5.12 (from Debian packaging) Zabbix (5.0.19 LTS) frontend is running on Apache […]