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Zabbix Performance Tuning

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783987641

Length 152 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Zabbix

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Luciano Alves

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

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

Comparisons between databases

To understand why MySQL is the most widely used database within Zabbix and why Zabbix SIA tends to use MySQL (for main development and ready-to-use appliances) instead of other RDBMS, you need to know some details about the supported databases and the main characteristics directly related to Zabbix.

According to the Zabbix manual at https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.4/manual/appendix/performance_tuning, Zabbix SIA has good support for MySQL.

This topic does not offer a comparison to determine which the best database is, but a comparison to understand which database has the best behavior with the Zabbix platform. The difference in approach is important so that you can have an assessment free of any bias, positive or negative, regarding any of the databases supported by Zabbix.

We know that the Zabbix server and the Zabbix proxy natively support five databases:

Oracle
- 10g or later
- Commercial license
IBM DB2
- 9.7 or later
- Commercial license
PostgreSQL
- 8.1 or later
- BSD...

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Authors (1)

Luciano Alves

Luciano Alves

Luciano Alves is Brazilian. He lives in the city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil. He has been a Zabbix evangelist since 2007. Since 1994, he has been working to support the ICT infrastructure using his expertise in targeting and monitoring platforms. Luciano has had Zabbix professional certifications since 2008, and in 2012, he became one of the first official instructors outside of Zabbix SIA. He has trained over 200 professionals from different countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Chile, Spain, and Colombia) to work with the Zabbix monitoring platform. He is the founder of Unirede Solues Corporativas, one of the main global partners of Zabbix SIA and currently the only premium partner in all of the Americas. Luciano is also a speaker at open source events, always talking about Zabbix. Besides this, he is a moderator of the official Zabbix forums in Portuguese and Spanish, and has worked on the translation of the official documentation into Portuguese.

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