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Zabbix Performance Tuning

By : Luciano Alves

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Zabbix Performance Tuning

4.5 (8)

By: Luciano Alves

Overview of this book

This book is aimed at Zabbix administrators who want to learn how to improve the performance of the Zabbix system. Basic knowledge of Zabbix's components and features is assumed.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Evolution of Zabbix

1. Evolution of Zabbix

Starting our journey

Choosing the right tool

The first wrong step with Zabbix

Getting started with Zabbix

Good practice

Simplifying Zabbix

Challenges in Zabbix

List of don'ts

The beginning of the real challenge

Summary

2. Zabbix and I – Almost Heroes

2. Zabbix and I – Almost Heroes

After starting Zabbix – the initial steps

The natural growth

Beyond infrastructure

The Internet of Things wave

Everyone knows about Zabbix

Improvements in Zabbix

Talking about performance

Summary

3. Tuning the Zabbix Server

3. Tuning the Zabbix Server

Item types and performance issues

Active items – a forgotten option

Triggers

Trends and history storage time

Caches and buffers

Can default templates be the villains?

DBSyncers – the unknown bottleneck

Summary

4. Tuning the MySQL Database

4. Tuning the MySQL Database

Comparisons between databases

Tuning for reading or writing

Summary

5. Tuning the Frontend

5. Tuning the Frontend

The usual complaints

Differences between web servers

The main configuration parameters

Testing compression

Other alternatives

Summary

6. Adjusting the Storage

6. Adjusting the Storage

Choosing between shared and local storage

Configuring the storage for performance

Small, medium, or large environments?

What do I need for my environment?

Summary

7. Tuning the Operating System

7. Tuning the Operating System

Linux distributions and Zabbix

The necessary adjustments in the Kernel

Summary

8. Doing the Extra Work

8. Doing the Extra Work

Dividing the components

Specifying the hardware for each component

Partitioning tables

Summary

9. Using the Zabbix Proxy

9. Using the Zabbix Proxy

The Zabbix proxy and Zabbix performance

The first steps with the Zabbix proxy

The firewall settings

Hardware for the Zabbix proxy

Summary

10. Monitoring the Health of Zabbix

10. Monitoring the Health of Zabbix

The Zabbix queue

Server and proxy internal items

Database performance items

Summary

11. The Next Challenge

11. The Next Challenge

Identifying the sponsors of Zabbix

The demands in business areas

Developing dashboards

Zabbix reports

IT services or SLA reports

Summary

Index

Index

Chapter 3. Tuning the Zabbix Server

Zabbix is the "all-seeing eye" that gathers data from our environment. The main concept and function of Zabbix is data gathering in the far corner. With this understanding, we need to take care of some basic things to help Zabbix achieve its target.

In the previous chapter, we talked about a scenario where Zabbix plays an important role in any environment. Now we need to think about the possible ways to configure Zabbix so that it can achieve the best performance in our environment.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

Item types and performance issues
Active items—a forgotten option
Triggers matter a lot
Trends and history storage time
Is the housekeeper a problem?
Caches and buffers
Can default templates be the villains?
DBSyncers—the unknown bottleneck

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