Zabbix MariaDB support YES

[robertsilen]

Suggesting Zabbix be changed from NOT VERIFIED to YES, as

1. The requirements page (zabbix.com/documentation/7.0/en/manual/installation/requirements?hl=MariaDB) mentions MariaDB separately with comments about versions (10.5.00-11.4.X) and more.
2. The installations best practises page zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/installation/best_practices/access_control/mysql that was previously linked to from "NOT VERIFIED", does have MariaDB specific comments in it.

So Zabbix does meet the YES-critierias?

[federico-razzoli]

@robertsilen Does it show any MariaDB specific metrics? Like Aria page cache usage, or userstats tables, or Memory_used? If it does, I'm fine with changing it to YES. If not, I'd rather set it to MySQL, meaning that it supports MySQL and as a consequence it works with MariaDB.

[grooverdan]

Lets break zabbix functionality into two parts:

storage of metrics

Which is the above reference documents. These contain MariaDB specific instructions around roles putting MariaDB on par with MySQL for the functionality required to store events. As there's nothing specific required of MariaDB over MySQL, and little in the way of extra features that could be used, I suspect this is a YES.

agent gathering of MariaDB metrics

The 3 templates of MySQL - https://www.zabbix.com/integrations/mysql shows "Item prototypes for MariaDB discovery" around binlog metrics specific to MariaDB.

[federico-razzoli]

@grooverdan @robertsilen

Thanks! It's OK to set it to YES. Please add the link reported by @grooverdan for reference.

@robertsilen feel free to add your name to CONTRIBUTORS.md (if you wish).