How to Upgrade Zabbix to 7.0

Let's talk through Upgrade process from any major version to latest and greatest Zabbix 7.0. These steps will be applicable no matter of your operating system or database engine and will serve you well in all the future upgrade tasks.

Written Blog Post:

00:00 Introduction
02:20 Preparation steps before the upgrade
09:35 Backing up Zabbix configuration files
11:20 Upgrade PHP version for Zabbix 7.0
12:40 PostgreSQL Database Upgrade for Zabbix 7.0
18:35 Upgrading Zabbix components

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[Solarfall]

So much of the video is about updating postgre

What about Mysql? It's default DB on appliances

[hristijanstojanoski]

Can i upgrade zabbix from 5.4.12 to 7.0 LTS, or i need to go to 6.0, then 7.0?

[joelp]

Thank you for this point ! what do you recommend between mysql and postgresql for a zero installation on debian 12 ?

[GDumaresq]

Hi,
I installed version 7 when it was still in Beta. So i'm currently at version 7.0.0beta3.
How can i upgrade to the LTS (release) version ?

[welaish]

I must disagree with you, the process is different from version to version and it is complicated. I have been using Zabbix since version 4. and everytime i get into upgrade it gets into firefighting mode.

this time from 6.0 to 7.0. Repos are not complete for ubuntu 20.04 I had to upgrade to 22.04 to be able to install, then i ran into a database error [Z3005] query failed: [1118] Row size too large. The maximum row size for the used table type, not counting BLOBs, is 8126. This includes storage overhead, check the manual. You have to change some columns to TEXT or BLOBs [alter table `media_type` add `provider` integer default '0' not null].

without a known solution.

So sorry to say no it is not the same. for now, I will leave 6.0 as is to avoid the firefighting again.

[QudamaYare]

Hi, can I reboot the host server using the Zabbix script, please I need to add a script that will reboot the host server.

[vivahernando]

Where is the kubernetes documentation?

[SirCriptoBTC]

Actualizacion exitosa de Zabbix 6.0 a 7.0 corriendo sobre Oracle Linux 8 (Nginx + postgresql + phpfpm)