Zabbix 6.1 Release: Broader Sharing, Improved Performance, and Flexible Filtering

This latest release of Grafana Zabbix Data Source delivers two major benefits: broader sharing capabilities and improved stability and performance for a smoother monitoring experience.

Share Dashboards with Anyone

You can now share your Grafana Zabbix dashboards externally without requiring recipients to have access to your Grafana organization. This breaks down collaboration barriers, making it easier to share critical monitoring data with stakeholders, clients, or external teams.

Enhanced Stability and Performance

We’ve introduced improvements to ensure more reliable and efficient querying. New query guardrails provide proactive warnings when a query might exceed Zabbix API limits, helping you prevent performance degradation and unexpected resource usage. You have now more control by explicitly setting query timeouts in the configuration, preventing long-running queries from impacting your system.

Granular Filtering with Host Tags

A highly request new feature is Host Tags for granular filtering. You can now use Zabbix host tags directly in your Grafana Zabbix queries, enabling more granular, flexible data filtering and visualization than ever before, allowing you to focus on the exact data you need, faster.