Zabbix performance tuning : tune and optimize Zabbix to maximize performance / Luciano Alves ; foreword by Alexei Vladishev.

Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed July 20, 2015).

Includes index.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; Acknowledgements; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Evolution of Zabbix; Starting our journey; Choosing the right tool; The first wrong step with Zabbix; Getting started with Zabbix; Good practice; Simplifying Zabbix; Challenges in Zabbix; List of don'ts; Starting a Zabbix deployment without planning; Use of default templates; Use of default database settings; Beginning of the real challenge; Summary; Chapter 2: Zabbix and I -- Almost Heroes; After starting Zabbix -- the initial steps

The natural growthBeyond infrastructure; The Internet of Things wave; Everyone knows about Zabbix; Improvements in Zabbix; Talking about performance; Summary; Chapter 3: Tuning the Zabbix Server; Item types and performance issues; Zabbix data types and SQL fields; Active items -- a forgotten option; Triggers; Trends and history storage time; History tables; Trend tables; Caches and buffers; Can default templates be the villains?; DBSyncers -- the unknown bottleneck; Summary; Chapter 4: Tuning the MySQL Database; Comparisons between databases; The main configuration parameters

Innodb_buffer_pool_sizeinnodb_buffer_pool_instances; innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit; innodb_flush_method; innodb_log_file_size; innodb_io_capacity; tmpdir; Tuning for reading or writing; Summary; Chapter 5: Tuning the Frontend; The usual complaints; Differences between web servers; The main configuration parameters; Compression in Apache; Compression in lighttpd; Compression in Nginx; Testing compression; Other alternatives; Summary; Chapter 6: Adjusting the Storage; Choosing between shared and local storage; Configuring the storage for performance; Small, medium, or large environments

What do I need for my environment?Summary; Chapter 7: Tuning the Operating System; Linux distributions and Zabbix; The necessary adjustments in the Kernel; User-level FD limits; Kernel-level FD limits; Changing swap behavior; Changing IO schedulers; The network parameters; Summary; Chapter 8: Doing the Extra Work; Dividing the components; Specifying the hardware for each component; Partitioning tables; Summary; Chapter 9: Using the Zabbix Proxy; Zabbix proxy and Zabbix performance; The first steps with Zabbix proxy; The firewall settings; Hardware for the Zabbix proxy; Summary

Chapter 10: Monitoring the Health of ZabbixThe Zabbix queue; Server and proxy internal items; Database performance items; Summary; Chapter 11: The Next Challenge; Identifying sponsors of Zabbix; The demands in business areas; Developing dashboards; Zabbix reports; IT services or SLA reports; Summary; Index

This book is aimed at Zabbix administrators who want to learn how to improve the performance of the Zabbix system. Basic knowledge of Zabbix's components and features is assumed.

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