Installation and first steps

Web interface installation

Quickstart guides

Basic configuration

Login and configuring user

Receiving problem notification

Apache web server monitoring

Linux server monitoring

MySQL server monitoring

Installation: additional guides

Installation from containers

Installation from sources

Notes on installation from packages

Windows agent installation from MSI

Building Zabbix agent 2 on Windows

Building Zabbix agent on Windows

macOS agent installation from PKG

Building Zabbix agent on macOS

Upgrade from containers

Upgrade from packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Upgrade from sources

Upgrade notes for Zabbix 8.0

Template changes

Upgrade notes for Zabbix 8.0.x

What's new in Zabbix 8.0

What's new in Zabbix 8.0.x

Zabbix appliance

Server

High availability

Configuration parameters: Zabbix server

Proxy

Server-proxy data exchange protocol

Configuration parameters: Zabbix proxy

Agent

Passive and active check protocols

Configuration parameters: Zabbix agent

Configuration parameters: Zabbix agent (Windows)

Agent 2

Configuration parameters: Zabbix Java gateway

Setup from Debian/Ubuntu packages

Setup from RHEL packages

Setup from sources

Sender

Zabbix sender protocol

Get

JS

Configuration parameters: Zabbix web service

Hosts and host groups

Configuring a host

Configuring a host group

Items

Creating an item

Item key format

Custom intervals

Item value preprocessing

Preprocessing testing

Preprocessing details

Preprocessing examples

JSONPath functionality

Escaping special characters from LLD macro values in JSONPath

JavaScript preprocessing

Additional JavaScript objects

Browser item JavaScript objects

CSV to JSON preprocessing

History and trends

User parameters

Extending Zabbix agents

Windows performance counters

Queue

Restricting agent checks

Problem detection with triggers

Trigger examples

Configuring a trigger

Trigger expression and functions

Aggregate functions

Foreach functions

Bitwise functions

Date and time functions

History functions

Trend functions

Mathematical functions

Operator functions

Predictive functions

Predictive trigger functions

String functions

Best practices for triggers

Trigger dependencies

Trigger severity

Graphs

Configuring a network map

Host group elements

Link indicators

Templates and template groups

Configuring a template

Configuring a template group

Linking/unlinking

Nesting

Templates out of the box

Zabbix agent template operation

Zabbix agent 2 template operation

HTTP template operation

IPMI template operation

JMX template operation

ODBC template operation

Standardized templates for network devices

VMware template operation

Notifications upon events

Email

Automated Gmail/Office365 media types

SMS

Custom alert scripts

Webhook

Webhook script examples

Actions

Sending message

Remote commands

Additional operations

Using macros in messages

Recovery operations

Update operations

Receiving notification on unsupported items

Macros

Macro functions

User macros with context

Secret user macros

Low-level discovery macros

Expression macros

Users and user groups

Configuring a user

Storage of secrets

CyberArk configuration

HashiCorp configuration

Scheduled reports

Export to files

Streaming to external systems

Configuration export/import

Template groups

Hosts

Regular expressions

Events and resolution

Event correlation

Trigger-based event correlation

Global event correlation

Problem acknowledgment and suppression

Manual closing of problems

Maintenance periods

Tagging

Network discovery

Configuring a network discovery rule

Active agent autoregistration

Low-level discovery

Item prototypes

Trigger prototypes

Graph prototypes

Host prototypes

Discovery prototypes

Notes on low-level discovery

Discovery rule examples

Custom LLD rules

Web monitoring items

Real-life scenario

Virtual machine monitoring

VMware monitoring item keys

Virtual machine discovery key fields

JSON examples for VMware items

VMware monitoring setup example

Service monitoring

SLA

Distributed monitoring

Proxies

Synchronization of monitoring configuration

Proxy load balancing and high availability

Using certificates

Using pre-shared keys

Troubleshooting

Connection type or permission problems

Certificate problems

Menu

Frontend sections

Dashboard widgets

Dashboard widget parameters

Clock

Discovery status

Favorite graphs

Gauge

Geomap

Graph

Graph (classic)

Graph prototype

Host availability

Map

Map navigation tree

Problems by severity

System information

Trigger overview

URL

Cause and symptom problems

Hosts

Graphs

Host dashboards

Maps

SLA

Hosts

Reports

System information

Scheduled reports

Availability report

Top 100 triggers

Data collection

Alerts

Actions

Scripts

Users

Users

HTTP

LDAP

SAML

MFA

General

Proxies

Macros

Queue

Global notifications

Sound in browsers

Frontend maintenance mode

Page parameters

Creating your own theme

Cookies used by Zabbix

Resetting password

Time period and host selectors

API

Method reference

apiinfo.version

Action

Alert

Audit log object

Authentication object

authentication.get

authentication.update

Autoregistration

Autoregistration object

autoregistration.get

autoregistration.update

configuration.export

configuration.import

configuration.importcompare

Connector object

connector.create

connector.delete

connector.update

Correlation object

correlation.create

correlation.delete

correlation.get

correlation.update

Dashboard object

dashboard.create

dashboard.delete

dashboard.update

Dashboard widget fields

2 Clock

3 Discovery status

4 Favorite graphs

5 Favorite maps

6 Gauge

8 Graph

9 Graph (classic)

10 Graph prototype

12 Host availability

14 Host navigator

16 Item history

17 Item navigator

19 Map

20 Map navigation tree

22 Problem hosts

24 Problems by severity

25 Scatter plot

27 System information

30 Top triggers

31 Trigger overview

32 URL

33 Web monitoring

Discovered host

Discovered host object

Discovered service

Discovered service object

Discovery check

Discovery check object

Discovery rule object

Event

event.acknowledge

Graph

Graph item object

Graph prototype

Graph prototype object

graphprototype.create

graphprototype.delete

graphprototype.get

graphprototype.update

High availability node

High availability node object

History

Host

host.massremove

Host group object

hostgroup.create

hostgroup.delete

hostgroup.massadd

hostgroup.massremove

hostgroup.propagate

hostgroup.update

Host interface object

hostinterface.create

hostinterface.delete

hostinterface.get

hostinterface.massadd

hostinterface.massremove

hostinterface.update

Host prototype object

hostprototype.create

hostprototype.delete

hostprototype.get

hostprototype.update

Housekeeping object

housekeeping.get

housekeeping.update

Icon map object

Image

Item

Item prototype object

itemprototype.create

itemprototype.delete

itemprototype.get

itemprototype.update

LLD rule object

discoveryrule.create

discoveryrule.delete

discoveryrule.get

discoveryrule.update

LLD rule prototype

LLD rule prototype object

discoveryruleprototype.create

discoveryruleprototype.delete

discoveryruleprototype.get

discoveryruleprototype.update

MFA

mfa.get

Maintenance object

maintenance.create

maintenance.delete

maintenance.get

maintenance.update

Map

map.get

Media type object

mediatype.create

mediatype.delete

mediatype.update

Module

Problem

Proxy

Proxy group object

proxygroup.create

proxygroup.delete

proxygroup.update

Regular expression

Regular expression object

Report

Role

SLA

sla.get

Script

script.getscriptsbyevents

script.getscriptsbyhosts

Service

Settings object

settings.update

Task

Template object

template.create

template.delete

template.massadd

template.massremove

template.update

Template dashboard

Template dashboard object

templatedashboard.create

templatedashboard.delete

templatedashboard.get

templatedashboard.update

Template group object

templategroup.create

templategroup.delete

templategroup.get

templategroup.massadd

templategroup.massremove

templategroup.propagate

templategroup.update

Token

Trend

Trigger

Trigger prototype

Trigger prototype object

triggerprototype.create

triggerprototype.delete

triggerprototype.get

triggerprototype.update

User

user.checkAuthentication

User directory object

userdirectory.create

userdirectory.delete

userdirectory.get

userdirectory.test

userdirectory.update

User group object

usergroup.create

usergroup.delete

usergroup.update

User macro object

usermacro.create

usermacro.createglobal

usermacro.delete

usermacro.deleteglobal

usermacro.update

usermacro.updateglobal

Value map object

valuemap.create

valuemap.delete

valuemap.update

Web scenario object

httptest.create

httptest.delete

httptest.update

Appendix 1. Reference commentary

Appendix 2. Changes from 7.4 to 8.0

Appendix 3. Changes in 8.0

Security best practices

Securing MySQL/MariaDB

Securing PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB

Loadable modules

Frontend modules

Installation and setup

Database creation

Repairing Zabbix database character set and collation

Database upgrade to primary keys

Preparing auditlog table for partitioning

Secure connection to the database

MySQL encryption configuration

PostgreSQL encryption configuration

Secure connection to the frontend

TimescaleDB setup

Elasticsearch setup

ClickHouse setup

Distribution-specific notes on setting up Nginx for Zabbix

Running agent as root

Zabbix agent on Microsoft Windows

SAML setup with Microsoft Entra ID

SAML setup with Okta

SAML setup with OneLogin

Setting up scheduled reports

Additional frontend languages

Google Chrome TLS certificate trust

Process configuration

Environment variables

Items

vm.memory.size parameters

Minimum permission level for Windows agent items

Encoding of returned values

Large file support

Sensor

Notes on memtype parameter in proc.mem items

Notes on selecting processes in proc.mem and proc.num items

Implementation details of net.tcp.service and net.udp.service checks

proc.get parameters

Unreachable/unavailable host interface settings

Remote monitoring of Zabbix stats

Configuring Kerberos with Zabbix

modbus.get parameters

Creating custom performance counter names for VMware

Return values for system.sw.packages.get

Return values for net.dns.get

Return values for net.if.get

Return values for vfs.dev.get

Notes on system.cpu.util items on Windows

Large JSON value support

Supported functions

Macros

Macros supported by location

User macros supported by location

Time period syntax

Command execution

Version compatibility

Zabbix sender dynamic link library for Windows

Service monitoring upgrade

Escaping examples

Quick reference guides

Monitor Linux with Zabbix agent

Monitor Windows with Zabbix agent

Monitor Apache via HTTP

Monitor MySQL with Zabbix agent 2

Monitor VMware with Zabbix

Monitor network traffic with Zabbix

Monitor network traffic using active checks

Monitor websites with Browser items

Monitor website certificates with Zabbix agent 2 (passive)

Monitor a network switch or router with Zabbix

Monitor Windows event log using active checks

Deploy Zabbix in the cloud

Node configuration

Key differences of Zabbix Cloud

Developer center

Zabbix manpages

zabbix_web_service

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