Combining multiple items in one plain text widget

[GrandAdmiralThrawn]

Hello,

I'm a first time user of Zabbix with next to zero experience. I have just set it up to monitor a single host (so far). Version is 4.4.5. Today, I tried to add two items into one text widget, but this somehow doesn't seem to work. Currently, I use them separately, one widget for one item. Like this:



As you can see, they're displaying the name of the system's host processor and the system's uptime. Both items/widgets are showing data properly. The uptime is provided by the Zabbix agent and is an unsigned numeric value. The CPU descriptor is provided by an external check I wrote (just

/sbin/sysctl -n hw.model

on FreeBSD UNIX), and is of the text data type. I'd like to combine them to use up less screen space, and I thought it would work like this:



But that does not seem to work; I couldn't get the widget to display both items (one per line), no matter what I tried, it would just show one of them, and repeat its output:



I switched the Items location to "Top" and made the widget much larger. In that view, the "System descriptor" column was just empty. Can I not combine items of different data types into one plain text widget? Or am I doing something else wrong here?

Your help would be appreciated!

Thanks.

[tcweb]

Did you ever find a solution for this? I have the same question.

[solution]

Use the widget Top Hosts

zabbix . com /documentation/6.4/en/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/dashboards/widgets/top_hosts

Wellington

[tcweb]

Indeed, the Top Hosts widget will do what I need. Thank you.