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Zabbix Performance Tuning

You're reading from   Zabbix Performance Tuning Tune and optimize Zabbix to maximize performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783987641
Length 152 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luciano Alves Luciano Alves
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Zabbix Performance Tuning
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Evolution of Zabbix FREE CHAPTER 2. Zabbix and I – Almost Heroes 3. Tuning the Zabbix Server 4. Tuning the MySQL Database 5. Tuning the Frontend 6. Adjusting the Storage 7. Tuning the Operating System 8. Doing the Extra Work 9. Using the Zabbix Proxy 10. Monitoring the Health of Zabbix 11. The Next Challenge Index

Specifying the hardware for each component


Once we have an understanding of the need to separate the different Zabbix components in different hardware, we need to list what specifications are needed for each piece of hardware.

To make this decision, we must know the behavior of each component. Consider the following:

  • Zabbix server

    • This basically receives all of the environment data and forwards it to the Zabbix database.

    • It doesn't supply the data immediately. It keeps it in the Caches history and delivers it later with DBSyncers.

    • This has large amount of network connections because of the data gathering.

    • It performs many mathematical calculations involving, mainly, triggers.

    • It has very low disk usage.

  • Zabbix GUI

    • This basically displays, the data in the Zabbix database to users

    • It has reasonable disk usage (this can still keep the GUI files in a memory area)

  • Zabbix database

    • This basically receives data from the Zabbix server

    • It delivers data to the Zabbix GUI

    • It needs a lot of memory to cache/buffer...

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