API history.get

[stevenwright_tsys]

Hi,
I have been tasked with getting metric data from Zabbix and pushing it into Graphite. From the documentation it seems that the API call I want is history.get(). The return for history.get() is:

"result": [
{
"itemid": "24242",
"clock": "1406211422",
"value": "72.1399",
"ns": "620647725"
},

I'd really like to be able to have the query return the item name as well. Right now the only way I see to do this is to do the history.get() query and then iterate the results and make another query to get the item name. This is very inefficient.

Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you.

Zabbix version 2.2.5 running on Redhat.

[stevenwright_tsys]

This how I ended up solving it:

49 q = json.dumps({
50 "jsonrpc":"2.0",
51 "method":"host.get",
52 "params": {
53 "output":["host","items"],
54 "sortfield": "name",
55 "selectItems":["itemid","name","key_","lastvalue","lastclock"]
56 },
57 "auth":"023a5244e624098836d8ca88554265d0",
58 "id": 1
59 })