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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

Can default templates be the villains?


Without a doubt, default templates are the villains. Surprised?

So far, we have talked about the characteristics of items and triggers, and how small adjustments (collection times, retention time, data types, function triggers, and so on) can save a Zabbix deployment from failure.

How do Zabbix's standard templates come to us? Have you stopped to think whether they are designed with the best practices for a production environment in mind? Many Zabbix users start using the software without this in mind and end up compromising the success of Zabbix in their environments.

Here's what should we know, and most likely change, before starting to use Zabbix:

  • Default templates and items:

    • The update intervals are very short and do not consider the requirements of each environment

    • The retention times are standardized for all items (90 days for history and 365 days for trends), and it is certainly not necessary for the retention time for all items to be the same

    • Zabbix...

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