One of the Zabbix customers is a government-owned public limited company that builds, owns, maintains, and upgrades the railway network in a European country, makes its capacity available to railway operator companies, and handles train traffic control. As one of the largest companies in their field, the customer employs over…
In this blog post, I’ll guide you through building your own template to monitor the latest Zabbix releases directly from the Zabbix UI. Follow the simple walkthrough to know how. Introduction With the release of Zabbix 7.0, it is possible to see which Zabbix version you are running and what…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and data monitoring are working together to digitally transform relationships, businesses, and people. In telecommunications, predictive analysis based on data collection plays a crucial role in development. Starting with version 6.0 of Zabbix, users have benefited from updates in predictive functions and machine learning, which make it…
One of the new features in Zabbix 7.0 LTS is proxy load balancing. As the documentation says: Proxy load balancing allows monitoring hosts by a proxy group with automated distribution of hosts between proxies and high proxy availability. If one proxy from the proxy group goes offline, its hosts will…
Prometheus is the standard for metric monitoring in the cloud native space and beyond. To ensure interoperability, to protect users from suprises, and to enable more parallel innovation, the Prometheus project is introducing the Prometheus Conformance Program with the help of CNCF to certify component compliance and Prometheus compatibility. The…
Have you ever selected the top 10 time series for something, but instead of 10 you got 100? If yes, this one is for you. Let me walk you through what the underlying problem is and how I fixed it. Currently, the topk() query only makes sense as an instant…
We have always made hard promises around stability and breaking changes following the SemVer model. That will remain to be the case. As we want to be bolder in experimentation, we are planning to use feature flags more. Starting with v2.25.0, we have introduced a new section called disabled features…
The OpenTelemetry project is an Observability framework and toolkit designed to create and manage telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. It is gaining widespread adoption due to its consistent specification between signals and promise to reduce vendor lock-in which is something that we’re excited about. Looking back at…
Bartek Płotka has been a Prometheus Maintainer since 2019 and Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. Co-author of the CNCF Thanos project. CNCF Ambassador and tech lead for the CNCF TAG Observability. In his free time, he writes a book titled "Efficient Go" with O'Reilly. Opinions are my own! What…
PromCon Europe is the eighth conference fully dedicated to the Prometheus monitoring system Berlin, Germany – September 1, 2023 – The CNCF and the Prometheus team, released the two-day schedule for the single-track PromCon Europe 2023 conference happening in Berlin, Germany from September 28 to September 29, 2023. Attendees will…