Zabbix 4.2 has been released and it brings an impressive array of new features and improvements. Some of these are:
- Built-in support of Prometheus data collection
- Efficient high-frequency monitoring
- Validation of collected data and error handling
- Preprocessing data with JavaScript
- Test preprocessing rules from UI
- Test media type from Web UI
- Support of TimescaleDB
- Simplified tag management
- More flexible auto-registration
- Support for HTML emails
- Animations and easy external services access on network maps
- Extracting data from HTTP headers (like authentication tokens)
- Non-destructive resizing and reordering of dashboard widgets
- … and a lot more
If you were waiting for a good reason to upgrade – this is it!
