In this chapter, you realized that it is possible to target the components of Zabbix (the Zabbix server, GUI, and database) on different pieces of hardware. With this, we can explore the hardware and operating system settings for the best performance of each component. We also saw that there are actions that can support the performance items that are external to Zabbix (partitioning). It also became clear that the greatest hardware consumer is the Zabbix database, and it is this component that must be given the best hardware. Then we saw that the Zabbix server and GUI can coexist on the same hardware without many performance issues, while the Zabbix database acts alone on some other hardware.

In the next chapter, we will talk about the power of the Zabbix proxy and the usage of this component. We will lay emphasis on how the Zabbix proxy helps the server's performance.