What's new in Zabbix 7.2

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Log on to our webinar and find out what makes Zabbix 7.2 a must-have. You’ll learn about all the new visualization features and widgets and get an inside look at the updated monitoring features as well as the new use cases and scenarios they support.

New way to visualize, group, and order your data

Get a comprehensive overview of your metrics with the new Top items widget

Data overview widget has been converted to Top items widget
Using item patterns enables a fine-grained selection of items
Utilize bars, indicators, and sparklines to visualize your data
Define value thresholds to dynamically visualize the state of your items

New way to visualize, group, and order your data

Dashboard with Top items widget for container monitoring

NVIDIA GPU monitoring

Deploy Zabbix agent 2 and start monitoring your Nvidia GPUs

Supported on Linux and Windows environments
Automatically discover Nvidia GPUs
Monitor metrics like GPU utilization, power usage, temperature, and more

GPU resource usage displayed on a dashboard

NETCONF monitoring of network devices via SSH subsystem support

It is now possible to invoke remote commands by using SSH subsystems, which extends monitoring to subsystems such as NETCONF and SFTP

SSH items now support a subsystem parameter
Collect data using various subsystems such as SFTP or NETCONF
Improved monitoring of network devices limited to NETCONF subsystem

NETCONF monitoring of network devices via SSH subsystem support

Sparkline chart

Provide additional context for your data by visualizing it in sparkline charts

Get additional contextual information in existing Zabbix widgets
Supported by Top hosts, Top items, and Item value widgets

Sparkline charts displayed in addition to item values in the Top hosts widget

Display detailed host information on your dashboards

Use the Host card widget to display detailed information about your hosts, their status, and resources

Display host problem counts, interface status, inventory data, and more
Customize field visibility and order
Dynamically update the displayed host by linking the Host card widget to Host navigator widgets

Display detailed host information on your dashboards

Host card widget provides host-level information

Simplified automated Zabbix component deployment

With the ability to specify Zabbix configuration parameters in environment variables, deploying Zabbix components via automation workflows or containers is now easier than ever

Streamline your Zabbix component CI/CD workflows by passing environment variables to Zabbix configuration files
Simplify Zabbix container deployments by utilizing environment variables

Simplified automated Zabbix component deployment

Enrich alerts and improve configuration workflows

Improve your configuration workflows and enrich your alerts with new and updated built-in macros

Provide event Unix timestamps with new {*TIMESTAMP} macros
Refer individual function results in expression macros with {FUNCTION.VALUE} macros
Various other built-in macro improvements

Enrich alerts and improve configuration workflows

VMware monitoring improvements

Get the most out of Zabbix VMware monitoring features with the latest set of VMware data collection features

Simplify VMware monitoring workflows with a stand-alone VMware hypervisor template
Monitor virtual machine hypervisor maintenance status
Resolved issues with VMware event collection stability

New templates and integrations

Zabbix 7.2 comes pre-packaged with new templates for the most popular vendors:

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NVIDIA GPU

Juniper MX series

Huawei OceanStor V6 Dorado

Nutanix

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Additional changes and improvements

Added support for CP_SPIN CPU state on OpenBSD
Implemented new column configuration options in Top hosts widget and support for binary item display
Added support for LLD macro {#UNIT.SERVICETYPE} in systemd.unit.discovery for Zabbix agent 2
Updated maximum supported TimescaleDB version to 2.17
Updated maximum supported PostgreSQL version to 17
Added PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes SSH public key algorithm configuration option
Implemented a new filter in media type list view to filter out media types by their usage in action

Made items become unsupported when there are no pollers
Removed support of Oracle DB
Removed dependent item count limit
Added support of logarithmic Y-axis scaling in graphs
Increase max number of rows for some widgets, such as Top hosts
Enabled usage of the mediatype.get method for users with the User role with a limited field scope
Ability to assign override host (Widget, Dashboard) for graph widget data sets
Implemented automatic selection of the first element of a broadcast-capable widget