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We manage to achieve this goal by developing the Zabbix Agent 2 in GO.

This is true for both the internal development of new native Zabbix Agent 2 metrics and for custom Zabbix Agent 2 plugin development done by our community. The main goal of Zabbix Agent 2 is the ability to have a simple and flexible to extend the metric collection capabilities of the agent. Now that the key benefits of using a Zabbix agent are clear, let’s answer the question – why should I consider using Zabbix agent 2 instead of sticking with the classical agent? For example – You can collect metrics at a specific time or only during working hours.Ability to schedule checks and define flexible metric collection intervals.Control over the data collection interval.Let the Zabbix server poll the agent with passive checks.Push the metrics to the Zabbix server with active checks.Select the direction of the communication between the Zabbix server and the Zabbix agent.Provides native log monitoring capabilities.Natively supports the collection of a large set of OS-level metrics such as memory/CPU/storage/file statistics and much more.Available on Windows and Unix-like systems.Zabbix Agent is a daemon that collects your metrics.The full recording of the speech is available on the official Zabbix Youtube channel.įirst, let’s talk about the key benefits you gain with Zabbix agent and how it can add an additional layer of flexibility to your monitoring:

Let’s look at what new features Zabbix Agent 2 will receive in Zabbix 6.0 LTS. Zabbix Agent 2 has been developed to provide additional benefits to our users – From a larger set of supported metrics to metric collection logic improvements and simplified custom monitoring plugin development.