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5 Zabbix sender protocol
Overview
Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy use a JSON-based communication protocol for receiving data from Zabbix sender. Data can be received with the help of a trapper item, or an HTTP agent item with trapping enabled.
Request and response messages must begin with header and data length.
Zabbix sender request
{
"request": "sender data",
"data": [
{
"host": "<hostname>",
"key": "trap",
"value": "test value"
}
]
}Zabbix server response
Zabbix sender request with a timestamp
Alternatively, Zabbix sender can send a request with a timestamp and nanoseconds.
{
"request": "sender data",
"data": [
{
"host": "<hostname>",
"key": "trap",
"value": "test value",
"clock": 1516710794,
"ns": 592397170
},
{
"host": "<hostname>",
"key": "trap",
"value": "test value",
"clock": 1516710795,
"ns": 192399456
}
],
"clock": 1516712029,
"ns": 873386094
}