Zabbix Housekeeper delete old entries without a lines limits and can block others requests for huge monitoring platforms.

Zabbix Manual Housekeeper can delete old entries by batch of X lines.

Tested for Zabbix 4.4.10

You will need Python 3.6+ or later. It is a good practice to create a dedicated virtualenv first. Even if it usually won't harm to install Python libraries directly on the system, better to contain dependencies in a virtual environment.

• Clone this repository
• Change directory

cd zabbix-manual-housekeeper

• Create a virtualenv

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

You may need to install the MySQL development headers and libraries.

• Install Python packages

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Fill the settings.py file with your informations about Zabbix database.

python3 manual_housekeeper.py --help
Usage: manual_housekeeper.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --node=NODE    SQL node
  --batch=BATCH  How many events to delete by request
  --limit=LIMIT  SQL request limit
  --month=MONTH  How many month to keep
  --only-trends  Delete only trends/trends_uint.

• If you think you've found a bug in the code or you have a question regarding the usage of this software, please reach out to us by opening an issue in this GitHub repository.
• Contributions to this project are welcome: if you want to add a feature or a fix a bug, please do so by opening a Pull Request in this GitHub repository. In case of feature contribution, we kindly ask you to open an issue to discuss it beforehand.

Copyright Outscale SAS

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