Zabbix Performance Tuning电子书

Zabbix Performance Tuning

Table of Contents

Zabbix Performance Tuning

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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

The beginning of the real challenge

Summary

2. Zabbix and I – Almost Heroes

After starting Zabbix – the initial steps

The natural growth

Beyond infrastructure

The Internet of Things wave

Everyone knows about Zabbix

Improvements in Zabbix

Talking about performance

Summary

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

4. Tuning the MySQL Database

Comparisons between databases

The main configuration parameters

innodb_buffer_pool_size

innodb_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

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

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

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

8. Doing the Extra Work

Dividing the components

Specifying the hardware for each component

Partitioning tables

Summary

9. Using the Zabbix Proxy

The Zabbix proxy and Zabbix performance

The first steps with the Zabbix proxy

The firewall settings

Hardware for the Zabbix proxy

Summary

10. Monitoring the Health of Zabbix

The Zabbix queue

Server and proxy internal items

Database performance items

Summary

11. The Next Challenge

Identifying the sponsors of Zabbix

The demands in business areas

Developing dashboards

Zabbix reports

IT services or SLA reports

Summary

Index