Debug logging

To troubleshoot issues when working with Zabbix API, collecting data from Zabbix agent, or sending data to Zabbix server or proxy, you can enable debug logging.

The zabbix_utils library uses Python's standard logging module.

To see detailed debug messages from the library:

Import Python's logging module in your script.
Configure the logging system to output messages in a readable format and set the logging level to DEBUG.

import logging
       from zabbix_utils import Getter
       
       logging.basicConfig(
           format=u'[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)s %(message)s',
           level=logging.DEBUG
       )
       
       agent = Getter(host='127.0.0.1', port=10050)
       resp = agent.get('system.uname')
       
       print(resp.value)

With debug logging enabled, detailed information about requests and responses is printed, for example:

[2023-10-01 12:00:01,587] DEBUG Content of the packet: b'ZBXD\x01\x0c\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00system.uname'
       [2023-10-01 12:00:01,722] DEBUG Zabbix response header: b'ZBXD\x01C\x00\x00\x00C\x00\x00\x00'
       [2023-10-01 12:00:01,723] DEBUG Zabbix response body: Linux test_server 5.15.0-3.60.5.1.el9uek.x86_64
       [2023-10-01 12:00:01,724] DEBUG Response from [127.0.0.1:10050]: Linux test_server 5.15.0-3.60.5.1.el9uek.x86_64
       Linux test_server 5.15.0-3.60.5.1.el9uek.x86_64

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Debug logging