Available in:

• 6.0.0beta2 (master) 9e46817c475

Released ZBXNEXT-6958 in:

• pre-6.0.0beta2 d69651bc4e

Documentation updated:

• Guidelines -> Plugins
• Items
• What's new in Zabbix 6.0.0

Dear esneiders and wiper,

Plugin Guidelines say:

External Zabbix agent 2 plugins are supported since Zabbix 6.0.0. Such plugins are kept in a separate repository, but use a shared with Zabbix agent 2 package.

...but then also say:

Several external plugins are available in Zabbix source code and can be used as examples.

...where highlighted link points to main Zabbix repository.

What's new claims:

Now, with the addition of the external plugin loader, plugins don't have to be integrated into the agent 2 directly and can be added as separate external add-ons, thus making the creation process of additional plugins for gathering new monitoring metrics easier.

Management of externally loaded plugins is indeed easier, but I don't see how creation/development of external plugins is any easier. As I understand, developer still has to have Zabbix source code tree to build plugin, that "shared Zabbix agent 2 package" is not available on https://pkg.go.dev. Or is it?

To be honest, I expected this feature to be implemented properly, with example plugins hosted as separate repositories in Zabbix organization on GitHub (perhaps, even as template repositories).

This is the first step providing the technical implementation of external plugins. The rest is still under investigation/development.