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Zabbix Tuning

The document discusses optimizing Zabbix performance through three main steps: 1) Identifying and fixing common problems like using default templates and database settings. 2) Tuning Zabbix parameters such as server configuration, number of processes, and housekeeper settings. 3) Doing extra work like using proxies to distribute load, partitioning tables to optimize storage, and running components on separate hardware. The overall goal is to understand Zabbix's internal metrics, optimize its configuration and database, and scale it effectively for high volumes of monitoring data.

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Zabbix Tuning

The document discusses optimizing Zabbix performance through three main steps: 1) Identifying and fixing common problems like using default templates and database settings. 2) Tuning Zabbix parameters such as server configuration, number of processes, and housekeeper settings. 3) Doing extra work like using proxies to distribute load, partitioning tables to optimize storage, and running components on separate hardware. The overall goal is to understand Zabbix's internal metrics, optimize its configuration and database, and scale it effectively for high volumes of monitoring data.

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ABC of Zabbix Performance Tuning

Getting most out of your hardware

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What is all about

Overview of Zabbix Performance Step 1. Identify & fix common problems Step 2. Tuning of Zabbix Parameters Step 3. Do extra work
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Overview
What's Zabbix performance?

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Basic data flow


GUI
Alerter Escalator Poller

DATA

History syncer

Poller

DATA
Trapper

DATA
History syncer

Database
Conf syncer

Conf syncer

OTHER

Trapper

DATA

Zabbix Server

No proxies, not a distributed setup

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Metrics of Zabbix performance


Number of values processed per second (NVPS) A rough estimate of NVPS is visible in Zabbix
Dashboard

NVPS

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Performance delivered by Zabbix

Hardware: Quad Core CPU, 6GB, RAID10 BBWC Budget: around 2K EUR

Zabbix is able to deliver 1 million of values per


minute or around 15.000 of values per second

In real life performance would be worse. Why?!


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Factors making performance lower


Type of items, value types, SNMPv3, number of
triggers and what the triggers are

Housekeeper settings and thus size of the database Number of front-end users Complexity of triggers
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Slow v.s. Fast


What Database size Trigger expressions Data collection Slow Large min(),max(),avg() Polling (SNMP, Agent-less, Passive agent) Text, string Fast Fits into memory last(), nodata() Trapping (active agents) Numeric

Data types

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Performance VS number of hosts


60 items per host, update frequency once per minute Number of hosts Performance (values per second) 10 10 100 100 1000 1000 600 items per host, update frequency once per minute Number of hosts 10 100 1000 Performance (values per second) 100 1000 10000
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Zabbix Queue has too many delayed items


Administration->Queue

Visible symptoms of bad performance

Frequent gaps in graphs, no data for some of the


items

False positives for triggers having nodata() function Unresponsive front-end

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Nice looking Queue

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Identify & fix common problems


STEP 1

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Different views on performance


I just added 5 hosts and Zabbix died :-( Zabbix is so slooooow, I have only 48 hosts :-(
however:

Zabbix Milestone achieved - 1000 hosts and


growing :-)

Our status update: 3771 hosts, 314698 items, 163266


triggers, 2707 vps :-) :-) - Happy! :-( - Unhappy!

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Common problems of initial setup


Use of default templates Make your own smarter templates Default database settings Tune database for the best performance Not optimal configuration of Zabbix Server Tune Zabbix Server configuration Housekeeper Use of older releases Always use the latest one!

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How do I know database performance is bad?


Zabbix Server configuration file, zabbix_server.conf:

LogSlowQueries=1000

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Tune Zabbix Configuration


STEP 2

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Get internal stats


Real number of VPS zabbix[wcache, values, all] zabbix[queue,1m] number of items delayed for more
than 1 minute

Zabbix Server components Alerter, Configuration syncer, DB watchdog,


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discoverer, escalator, history syncer, http poller, housekeeper, icmp pinger, ipmi poller, poller, trapper

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Get internal stats

Before Zabbix 1.8.5 no way to see clearly how well Zabbix components work!

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Get internal stats


Now we have a very nice way of monitoring internal
performance

Percentage of time a component is in BUSY state zabbix[process,<type>,<mode>,<state>] <type> - trapper, discoverer, escalator, alerter, etc <mode> - avg, count, min, max <state> - busy, idle
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How it looks like

A graph indicating a problem

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Tune number of processes


Zabbix Server configuration file, zabbix_server.conf:

StartPollers=80 StartPingers=10 StartPollersUnreachable=80 StartIPMIPollers=10 StartTrappers=20 StartDBSyncers=8


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Do extra work
STEP 3

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Use Proxies
Alerter Escalator Trapper

DATA

Proxy
Trapper

Pollers

DATA

History syncer

DATA
Trapper

History syncer

Proxy
Trapper

Pollers

DATA

Conf syncer

Conf syncer

OTHER

DATA

Zabbix Server

Proxies do data collection

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Table partitioning
It is a way to split large tables into smaller partitions. Make sense for historical tables: history_*, trends*, events Benefits Easy to remove older data Much better performance
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No table partitioning

Zabbix Server & GUI

History

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With table partitioning


Partition 2011_09

Zabbix Server & GUI

Partition 2011_08

Partition 2011_07

Partition 2011_06

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Hey, I tried everything! Performance is still not good.


Run all Zabbix components on separate hardware!

Zabbix Server Fast CPU 2GB of RAM

Database Fast CPU 16GB of RAM Fast storage

Zabbix GUI Fast CPU 4GB of RAM

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Summary
Make sure you did everything

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Check list
Zabbix internal statistics is monitored! Otherwise you don't know anything about Zabbix
health

Zabbix configuration is tuned Database performance is tuned Housekeeper is not used, you use table partitions
DisableHousekeeper=1

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Additional reading
MySQL & PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Guides Table partitioning for Zabbix MySQL: zabbixzone.com http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/non PostgreSQL: english/ru/partitioning_in_postgresql Zabbix Internal Checks http://blog.zabbix.com/monitoring-how-busy-zabbix-processes-are http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/config/items#in ternal_checks
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