Understanding your own environment is essential for choosing the most appropriate hardware and configuration. Some users think that their environment is large when it is actually small or medium. What defines an environment as small, medium, or large? The numbers of each of these—items and vps, hosts, users, and events—are important factors in the evaluation.

If our focus here is on performance, the most important information we need is directly related to the reading and writing rates we want to achieve in our environment. According to Zabbix SIA, a very big environment is an environment that has more than 10,000 monitored hosts and a small environment has up to 20 hosts. We have a good difference between sizes, but we must remember that the amount of hosts does not directly reflect the number of values per second of the environment.

Consider that we have 1,000 hosts, each host has 60 items, and each item is updated every 60 seconds. So, we will have...