Glaber is a zabbix server fork (currently based on zabbix 6.0.4).

Key differences from zabbix: Better performance (x100 greater than zabbix)

Key similarities from zabbix:

• 100% compatibility with zabbix (except history)

This repo can be used as starting point to migrate from your current zabbix installation to glaber.

The main reasons for this may be:

• The performance of zabbix proxies is constantly not enough, you have to add new ones.
• Restarting the monitoring system takes a long time.
• You are faced with an architecturally unsolvable problem where increasing the performance of the zabbix server, zabbix proxy server, database tuning does not improve the performance of the monitoring system as a whole.

• CPU: 1 cpu like cpu xeon e5` performance enough.
• RAM: 8G RAM.
• DISK: SSD preferred. Depend on your zabbix setup. This setup is enough for zabbix setup with 20k nvps performance.

Linux operation system with internet access and software installed:

• docker >=20.10.22
• docker-compose >=1.29.2
• apache2-utils

• glaber server
• glaber nginx
• clickhouse as history storage backend
• mysql as the main database backend

• Feel free to ask for a solution according to your infrastructure
• As glaber and zabbix have backward compatibility you can try to replace one zabbix component with glaber component one by one (for example change zabbix proxy to glaber proxy)
• You can install glaber in parallel to zabbix and redirect all zabbix agents and zabbix proxy to the glaber server

Make a directory for glaber:

mkdir /opt/glaber

• Copy this repository to glaber directory:

  cd /opt/glaber
  git clone git@github.com:bakaut/glaber.git .

• Start glaber:

  ./glaber.sh start

This action create passwords for clickhouse ans mysql and docker-compose up all glaber components. This action needs sudo access.

• Zabbix web Admin password located in .zbxweb and displayed to stdout
• All passwords variables are updated in .env file

• Zabbix web. http://127.0.0.1 - Admin,<random generated>
• Mysql server. Db,User,Pass - zabbix,zabbix,<random generated>
• Clickhouse. Db,User,Pass - zabbix,defaultuser,<random generated>

All variables, their default values and their default behavior are described in .env file

./glaber.sh <action>

./glaber.sh build    - Build docker images
./glaber.sh start    - Build docker images and start glaber
./glaber.sh stop     - Stop glaber containers
./glaber.sh recreate - Completely remove glaber and start it again
./glaber.sh remove   - Completely remove glaber installation
./glaber.sh diag     - Collect glaber start logs and some base system info to the file

• Community support (feel free to make an issue or write to the telegram group https://t.me/glaber_group)

• Supported software version:

  • Only one last version. Currently 2.18.1 for glaber based on zabbix 5.0.4
    • glaber-server-mysql
    • glaber-nginx
    • clickhouse-server, docker image version 21.3.20
    • percona-mysql, docker image version 8.0.29-21-centos

• Variables:

  • Only a part of the main parameters has been moved to .env. If you need another, fill free to create an issue

These restrictions apply only to this repository, to the docker version of glaber, not to the glaber product in general.