What’s New in Zabbix 6.0? Enhanced Monitoring, HA, AI & Cloud Features Explained

01 BMS Business Service Monitoring

Zabbix 6.0 redesigns the Services page, allowing monitoring of over 100,000 business services per instance, flexible status‑calculation logic, custom access permissions, export/import of service trees, and new service actions for alert handling.

02 Advanced SLA Calculation Logic

The new SLA engine supports weight assignment, conditional state changes based on the number or percentage of problematic sub‑services, and custom SLA reports.

03 Root‑Cause Analysis for Business Services

Root‑cause analysis lists potential issues that could degrade SLA directly in the Services UI, via alerts, or through the Zabbix API.

04 Out‑of‑the‑Box HA Cluster for Zabbix Server

Native HA configuration lets you add standby nodes, monitor cluster status in real time, and run Zabbix Server without external tools.

05 Machine‑Learning‑Based Anomaly Detection

New trend functions

baselinewma

,

baselinedev

and

trendstl

compute baselines and detect deviations, with configurable deviation algorithms and seasonality.

06 Kubernetes Monitoring

Multiple new templates enable automatic discovery of nodes and pods, agent‑less data collection, and monitoring of core components such as kube‑controller‑manager, kube‑proxy, kube‑apiserver, kube‑scheduler, and kubelet.

07 Enhanced Audit Log

The redesigned audit log records detailed actions on the frontend, API, and server—including object creation, LLD discovery, API commands, login/logout events—while maintaining high performance.

08 New Visualization Widgets

New widgets include geographic maps, data tables with top‑N/ bottom‑N functions, single‑item displays, enhanced vector graphics, and SLA widgets showing current service SLA.

09 Performance Optimizations

Faster template linking

Improved Zabbix proxy performance and memory usage

Primary‑key‑based history tables for better server/frontend speed and reduced storage

10 Modular Zabbix Agent 2 with New Items

New items retrieve file ownership/permissions, host metadata, count TCP/UDP sockets, and extend existing items (e.g.,

vfs.fs.discovery

,

vfs.fs.get

,

vfs.file.size

). Plugins can be loaded without recompiling.

11 Native TLS/SSL Certificate Monitoring

New Agent 2 items allow verification of SSL/TLS certificates and retrieval of detailed certificate information.

12 Usability Improvements

Direct host and item creation from the Monitoring view, removal of the Overview page, automatic item type selection, and macro expression updates for topology and graph names.

13 Custom Password Complexity

Admins can set minimum length, character requirements, and block common passwords to harden login security.

14 Custom Branding

Replace the default Zabbix logo and help URLs with your company’s branding without violating the license.

15 New Templates & Integrations

Official templates for F5 BIG‑IP, Cisco ASAv, HPE ProLiant, Cloudflare, InfluxDB, Travis CI, Dell PowerEdge, plus a GitHub webhook integration for issue creation.

16 Other New Features & Optimizations

New aggregation functions

count

and

item_count

Improved

system.swap

behavior without swap space

Monotonic history functions for detecting trends

Prometheus label‑matching operators

!=

and

!~

Enhanced component navigation and filter conversion

Configurable

ListenBacklog

for TCP queue limits

Documentation readability improvements

UTF‑8 mb4 support for MySQL, extra HTTP methods for webhooks, CLI timeout settings, and numerous bug fixes