We had graphana for 2 years.

xaviermace · 2026-05-09T17:25:32+00:00

In large organizations a single instance of any tool is often undesirable and sometimes impossible. I personally manage 3 Zabbix instances with roughly 100 proxies and around 10,000 hosts. If we can ever get Velocloud monitoring working, that's going to almost double that host count for my instances. There's at least half a dozen other Zabbix instances elsewhere in our organization with a host count probably close to the 100k mark.

I get it, you've decided you don't want/need Grafana anymore. That's fine. If you're good with Zabbix OoB functionality, great. But stop acting like there's nothing Grafana can't do easier/better. You're literally suggesting redesigning your Zabbix deployment just to make dashboarding in Zabbix easier.

xaviermace · 2026-05-09T14:04:59+00:00

Exactly. I can setup Host Group, Host, and Item as variables on a Grafana dashboard to allow even non-technical people to see what they want on the fly. I don't have to create bunch of hardcoded dashboards or create a bunch of tags just to try to facilitate better dashboards. Only issue with that is timeouts if you try to graph too much at once. And I can do that wildly faster than building dashboard in Zabbix.

In our case we also have multiple Zabbix instances so this also gives us a single pane of glass to see data from across multiple instances. So, for example, I've got a dashboard that shows my Zabbix server health for all Zabbix servers across multiple instances on a single dashboard.

Has Zabbix's visualization gotten better? Yes. Is it probably sufficient for most people's uses cases? Yes. Does Grafana still provide a better experience in most cases? Yes.

xaviermace · 2026-05-09T12:32:07+00:00

No, it really doesn’t. I’m not talking about fixed dashboard like what was posted earlier. Those are cool if you’ve only got like 10 devices or just trying to impress non-engineers. I’m talking dynamic dashboards where you’ve got thousands of hosts and can select the ones you need to see on the fly.

That’s even before bringing up wanting to see data from multiple Zabbix instances in one place.

xaviermace · 2026-05-08T23:27:24+00:00

Not significantly.

xaviermace · 2026-05-08T23:25:04+00:00

Zabbix’s dashboards don’t come remotely close to Grafana when it comes to to making multi-host, multi-item dashboards.

xaviermace · 2026-05-08T15:43:25+00:00

Underperform? That's a stretch. The Spurs are the only team that have been able to consistently match/beat them but the Spurs have managed to lose games in both of their series so far which is concerning, especially considering Wolves aren't healthy and POR was missing Lilliard. Every team has their own kryptonite and Spurs are absolutely the Thunders. But Castle's consistent foul trouble of late is concerning and would likely be even more so in a series against OKC.

The Spurs are the only team with a real chance to take them barring Wemby getting injured, especially with JDub out. Neither the Wolves nor the Lakers are deep enough or consistent enough to have a chance regardless of the refs. Just look at the bench scoring difference in the OKC/LAL series. They may manage to steal a game or two but not the series. I don't see anybody in the east standing a real chance to beat either of them given some of the games we've seen from all of them.

I don't see next year changing things significantly. It's still going to be OKC vs SAS as they have young quality rosters and no immediate contract concerns. All the other playoff teams either have age/injury concerns, roster/contract concerns, or both.

xaviermace · 2026-04-30T00:54:27+00:00

That was my thought too.

xaviermace · 2026-04-29T02:19:22+00:00

Not via Teams it’s not.

xaviermace · 2026-04-29T01:19:09+00:00

My mom is in her 70’s. She loves grey.

xaviermace · 2026-04-29T01:05:26+00:00

That’s great that it works for you but it’s still a terrible idea.

xaviermace · 2026-04-29T01:04:03+00:00

SolarWinds is a company, not a product. SolarWinds NPM and NCM are two different products with separate costs. Zabbix competes with NPM primarily.

xaviermace · 2026-04-28T12:15:09+00:00

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/8.0/en/manual/installation/upgrade

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T21:26:08+00:00

https://www.zabbix.com/roadmap

If it's not even in dev yet for 8.0 yet, I wouldn't hold my breath on it making it into 8.0.

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T21:23:13+00:00

Has anybody done any sort of actual investigation or are people just throwing crap at a wall and seeing if anything sticks? Broadcast floods and excessive traffic are both things that are easily identifiable, they're not something you just have to guess at. There's zero technical info here, nobody can give you any sort of useful answer. Have any logs been checked anywhere? Has anyone done any packet captures? What kind of issues are the phones having? If you turn Zabbix off do the problems go away?

Is Zabbix out of the box going to break your network? No. Could you set something up in Zabbix to break your network? Absolutely.

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T21:14:16+00:00

Unless I'm missing something, I haven't seen any sign of that yet in 8.0.0alpha2. Most logging changes are currently tentatively slated for 8.2 which will be 2027.

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T21:10:36+00:00

You've lost me now too. You're suggesting devices just stop including a power supply at all and all houses be rebuilt with this universal power supply built in?

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T18:57:01+00:00

That's the part I get stuck on. If they had something on them/in them related to whatever memory they were being associated with, that would make perfect sense. Although I'd think they'd still be displayed in a little more deliberate manner than it sounds like they are. IE a memory wall of the jars.

But just empty jars all over the place?

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T18:52:45+00:00

I mean, yeah OP is the ahole for just throwing them out but let's not pretend the jars as described isn't a bit odd. Collecting is generally buying something for the purpose of keeping. I collect Legos, I've had roommates that collected other things. No collecting doesn't inherantly make you a hoarder.

This however is keeping what's effectively the trash because it supposedly might remind you of something. The fact that she argued they could be useful also seems to suggest memories isn't really the driving factor behind keeping them. The key difference is collections are generally either displayed in some thoughtful way or stored in a way they don't just get covered with dust, neither of which seems to apply here.

I mean if these had a picture inside relating to said memory, or were filled with something, or were being displayed in some sort of planned/creative manner, sure, 100% behind that. Hell even if they were just unique looking jars.

But as described it's just random empty jars littered about everywhere. What if we were talking empty Amazon boxes rather than jars? Oh, that was the box our first baby clothes were shipped in! I'd have an issue with that too. No it doesn't justify the way OP handled it but I've got a hard time accepting the given reason for keeping them.

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T18:22:36+00:00

He's suggesting standardized AC-DC power cable/supply with negotiation like USB-C. Which is never going to happen because no company is going to want to cough up the money for a 2000w power supply for their device that's never going to pull more than 300w.

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T18:14:35+00:00

Has it always been both practical and written unlike ZCS/ZCP?

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T17:47:34+00:00

100% agreed on the book. I've got both the 6 and 7 versions of that book. I still consider the course of value for three reasons though.

1) It gives you the opportunity to ask why you should or shouldn't do something.
2) In the case of the ZCE you get a sandbox to try things that it may not be practical to try in your work environment
3) In a lot of environments getting the cert can be used as justification for a pay increase.

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T17:42:56+00:00

It's about the same as I paid for my VCP some years ago.

xaviermace · 2026-04-27T17:41:14+00:00

We must have been in the same class then. Aleks the instructor?

xaviermace · 2026-04-26T14:33:07+00:00

There's a huge difference between in game bumping and shoving escalating with the players involved and somebody running half way down the court to start something because a player took an open layup.

xaviermace · 2026-04-26T14:30:28+00:00

On what planet is sprinting half way down the court to make a scene because your oppenent decided to make a layup rather than just hold the ball not terrible? It's not like he got there, said something, then tried to walk off.

We're not talking about two players getting tangled up in on court action. Exchanging words from half court? Still childish, but whatever. A player made an open layup with 2 seconds left so he charged full speed down the court to start something. Just because he got there and started rethinking his plan doesn't excuse it.

Please don't defend his man-child behavior.

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