Zabbix Agent NVPS Challenge

Zabbix community Agent NVPS (new values per second) challenge - who will achieve the highest Zabbix agent NVPS score.

TL;DR:

Use your server with preinstalled Docker + with the most powerful CPU(s) and execute this command:

export USER_ID="<your public user identification>"
sudo curl -s \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/monitoringartist/zabbix-agent-nvps-challenge/master/script.sh \
| sudo -E bash

Your results are submitted automatically and are available in the Public Google Sheet.

Current record holder is Monitoring Artist (66217.308253 NVPS):

$ docker exec -t dockbix-agent-xxl-nvps-challenge zabbix_agent_bench -host 127.0.0.1  -key stress.ping[] -timelimit 10 -threads 9
Testing 1 keys with 9 threads (press Ctrl-C to cancel)...
stress.ping[] : 662181  0       0

=== Totals ===

Total values processed:         662181
Total unsupported values:       0
Total transport errors:         0
Total key list iterations:      662181

Finished! Processed 662181 values across 9 threads in 10.000119568s (66217.308253 NVPS) 

Rules

• use original Zabbix agent source codes/packages
• use stress.ping[] item provided by a zabbix-agent-stress-test module
• use zabbix_agent_bench for benchmarking
• use localhost/127.0.0.1 network interface
• use 10 seconds timelimit
• try to experiment with StartAgents and -threads settings to achieve the highest NVPS score

The easy solution is to use Docker and dockbix-agent-xxl container:

docker run \
  --name=dockbix-agent-xxl-nvps-challenge \
  --privileged \
  -v /:/rootfs \
  -v /var/run:/var/run \
  -e "ZA_Server=0.0.0.0/0" \
  -e "ZA_StartAgents=100" \
  -d monitoringartist/dockbix-agent-xxl-limited:latest

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" | uniq -c | sed 's/model name.*:/x/g'
date
docker exec -t dockbix-agent-xxl-nvps-challenge zabbix_agent_bench -host 127.0.0.1 \
 -key stress.ping[] -timelimit 10 -threads 128
docker rm -f dockbix-agent-xxl-nvps-challenge

Public Google Form to submit your results manually.

Performance table

Selected tested servers and achieved Zabbix agent NVPS score:

NVPS	Server description
~66k	72 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00GHz; AWS EC2 c5.18xlarge
~56k	36 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2666 v3 @ 2.90GHz; AWS EC2 c4.8xlarge
~44k	64 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz; AWS EC2 m4.16xlarge
~8k	4 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz

Public Google Sheet with all results.

Author

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