introduce yourself to the changes for this new version of Zabbix in the following section. 1 Notable improvements With so many changes it is impossible to pick 3 most notable ones - which is attempted below. might be very important to you. • Performance improvements • Full Unicode support • Bar reports • API technical preview 2 New features and improvements for the frontend Zabbix web frontend is the feature installations. Being most user-visible part, we will start by looking at many new features and improvements in Zabbix 1.8 for the web frontend. 2.1 Bar reports Zabbix already has easy to use simple graphs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 Frontend improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . content in the Introduction section. 1 Frontend improvements 1.1.1 Updated translations * French 1.2 Daemon improvements 1.3 Miscellaneous improvements Fixed issues with mysql user parameter configuration {HOSTNAME} deprecated 5.1.7 SNMP trap monitoring SNMP trap item documentation. 5.2 Frontend improvements 5.2.1 A new look Zabbix frontend has received a redesign. The login page, table view, configuration

1 New web interface Zabbix 3.0 comes with a completely new frontend design. Along with visual improvements, there are several other changes for working with the frontend: • For accessing the second-level prototype. Host trigger prototype cannot depend on a trigger from a template. 5.9.1 Performance improvements The processing of trigger prototypes has been optimized by reducing the number of SQL statements Discovered items are linked to the applications created based on application prototypes. 5.12 Graph improvements 5.12.1 Better zoom In previous versions the shortest period you could zoom into was one hour

existing widget using the Paste option in the widget menu. Managing large numbers of hosts Several improvements have been made to make it easier to work with large numbers of hosts and other elements. A consistent editing no longer takes place when configuring action operations. Problem acknowledgment Several improvements have been made to the problem update screen used for problem acknowledgment and other problem Manual SNMP cache clearing Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy now support an -R snmp_cache_reload runtime control option, which reloads the SNMP cache 16 and clears the SNMP properties (engine time, engine

flexible setup. 5 What’s new in Zabbix 4.0.0 Improved dashboards Dashboards have seen further improvements in the new version to make them more appealing visually, more versatile and flexible to the user default values set for all fields depending on the type of newly selected widget. Graph visual improvements in a widget 27 Graph display in widgets has been enhanced. A generated graph is now occupying Frontend top bar menu improvements A new Support button redirecting to Zabbix official support page is now added to Zabbix frontend top bar menu: Accessibility Several improvements have been made to Zabbix

the configuration file without restarting the agent. To do so, run the new userparameter_reload runtime control option, e. g.: zabbix_agentd -R userparameter_reload or zabbix_agent2 -R userparameter_reload pollers load. Runtime command transfer Zabbix server and proxy runtime commands are now sent via socket instead of Unix signals. This change allowed to improve user experience working with runtime control of node number. Runtime controls on BSD-based OS 15 Previously, Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy runtime control options were not supported on BSD-based systems. Changing the runtime command transfer

Zabbix server in foreground -R --runtime-control perform administrative functions 23 -h --help give this help -V --version display version number Note: Runtime control is not supported on OpenBSD -c /usr/local/etc/zabbix_server.conf shell> zabbix_server --help shell> zabbix_server -V Runtime control Runtime control options: Option Description Target config_cache_reload Reload configuration cache Example of using runtime control to reload the server configuration cache: shell> zabbix_server -c /usr/local/etc/zabbix_server.conf -R config_cache_reload Examples of using runtime control to gather

the support for newlines and tabs in trigger expressions has been added. 5.6 Web monitoring improvements Ability to specify custom headers It is now possible to specify custom headers for HTTP requests option has been renamed to Create new, to avoid confusion with the new option. 13 5.10 Frontend improvements 5.10.1 Unified date and time format Date and time format has been unified across Zabbix frontend element have gained a new Action column showing the name of the responsible action as well. Other improvements include: • renaming page titles in Administration → Audit: – ’Actions’ to ’Action log’ – ’Logs’

Zabbix server in foreground -R --runtime-control perform administrative functions -h --help give this help -V --version display version number Note: Runtime control is not supported on OpenBSD -c /usr/local/etc/zabbix_server.conf shell> zabbix_server --help shell> zabbix_server -V Runtime control Runtime control options: Option Description Target config_cache_reload Reload configuration cache Example of using runtime control to reload the server configuration cache: shell> zabbix_server -c /usr/local/etc/zabbix_server.conf -R config_cache_reload Example of using runtime control to trigger

discovery rules has been split from data gathering processes into its own processing. See: Daemon improvements. Expected format change in low-level discovery In order to support preprocessing of low-level duplicated, when marking the event. See more on tags. More intuitive dashboard editing Several improvements have been made to the way widgets behave in dashboard editing mode: • When a widget is made body only, headers only or in both. 16 Frontend This section introduces miscellaneous frontend improvements: Mass update Mass update for item prototypes It is now possible to also mass update item prototypes