How to Globally add hostname into the subject-line of trigger emails

[kmfreder]

Really enjoying learning about Zabbix. Love the tool.

I have seen where you can add {HOST.NAME} to a trigger name individually, which then displays the hostname in the email subject line of trigger emails. Is there a way to globally add the hostname to trigger email's subject line for all triggers?

Thanks!

Ken

[gert.derouck]

Hi, i don't think you can do this globally.
You can add it to the trigger action though.

You can add following as 'Default Subject':
{HOST.NAME} {EVENT.NAME}

[kmfreder]

Awesome. the Default Subject was exactly what we were looking for! Thanks!!

[it.tech]

I ran into this thread looking for the advice on how to add a hostname into the subject of an email alert and got confused. Can someone explain how exactly add it to the trigger action.
I see two tabs here, one is Action and second is Operations. In the Action tab I can only add hosts, groups and other items that don't have anything to do with "Default Subject"
Under Operations I have the actual email alert configured to send to specific users but again, nothing where I would add the default subject.
Please advise!

[kmfreder]

Go to Configuration>Actions>Trigger actions and then click on the operations tab. Once there, under the operations step, click the "Edit" link.

On the next screen titled "Operation details", you can edit the custom message to include {HOST.NAME} {EVENT.NAME} or {EVENT.NAME} {HOST.NAME} as below.




Hope that helps!

[it.tech]

Ok, thanks a lot, I figured it eventually and configured almost exactly as advised.
The first alert comes as expected, i.e. I see the hostname in the subject, but when it is resolved, it is not there anymore.
Here's my subject in the first alert: OBR firewall High ICMP ping loss
Here's the second: Resolved in 1m 0s: Unavailable by ICMP ping

[kmfreder]

To get the Hostname in the subject line of the Recovery Operation. From the Operations page as below, click on EDIT in the Recovery operations section.

Then add the hostname parameter there as well. Sorry I should have mentioned that the first time around. "Resolved: {EVENT.RECOVERY.NAME}{HOST.NAME}"

[it.tech]

I did it and for some reason the recovery email alert doesn't conttain the hostname in the sjubject
Her's how it looks

[kmfreder]

Hmmm. This configuration is working in my 5.4 installation. Maybe someone else has some ideas on how to troubleshoot. Sorry I can't be of further help here but I am not sure where to go from here if that didn't work.

[it.tech]

I added a space in line of subject between two variables, like this Resolved: {EVENT.RECOVERY.NAME} {HOST.NAME}
Will see if it had any affects

[bitmeup]

For those looking for another solution in 2022 (for zabbix 6.0-6.2), you can just add {HOST.NAME} to the Media Type you are using (e.g Configuration > Media Types > Email (HTML) > Message Templates > Edit each one)

[JTSmith]

My thanks to those who posted their solutions. Paying this forward by updating for 2023 (version ~6.4).

1. Navigate to Alerts > Media types
2. Click the target profile (e.g. Gmail)
3. Open the Message template tab
4. For each Message type:
   1. Click Edit
   2. Add the text {HOST.NAME} to the Subject field, e.g. "[{HOST.NAME}] Problem: {EVENT.NAME}"
   3. Click Update to close the editor
5. Click Update to save changes