Help needed regarding Zabbix monitoring
Hi,
We've been using Zabbix for a long time, since 2.2.x. We've recently upgraded our instance to Zabbix 5.
With this upgrade I've also spent some time looking at triggers. We have a few triggers that've been around for years in some instances, because they were relatively unimportant.
In terms of cleaning up our install and removing some long existing errors I am cleaning up these notifications.
Once that has also been around for longer is 'More than 100 items having missing data for more than 10 minutes'
I am having trouble figuring out what to do here. I've tried querying against the database to figure out which these 100+ items are so I can resolve it, but this is turning out to be a more cumbersome task than I anticipated.
For example, the first item with missing data I've ran into is one of our webchecks, regarding the icmppingloss item key.
When I tried to run it manually it does not recognise an item key of icmppingloss.
Furthermore, if I look in Zabbix I can actually see both data for this item and a graph for it as well (although it's 0% most of the time).
This makes me wonder, how to properly fight this issue? Is there a list I can generate from some source that actually tells me which items have data missing, so I can fix the issues?
I'm also wondering why it's not turning up anywhere else, surely if an item has data missing, this must indicate an issue between the Zabbix server and the Zabbix agent?
And if not, why does the Zabbix server monitor look at this value? If an item has no data and it should not have, then in my eyes Zabbix should not report it as a warning/error.
I would appreciate it if somebody could point me in the right direction so I can reduce our list of active triggers to 0... :-)
Extra information:
zabbix_server (Zabbix) 5.0.1
Revision c2a0b03480 25 May 2020, compilation time: May 28 2020 07:00:00
Kind regards,
Wesley Vestjens
We've been using Zabbix for a long time, since 2.2.x. We've recently upgraded our instance to Zabbix 5.
With this upgrade I've also spent some time looking at triggers. We have a few triggers that've been around for years in some instances, because they were relatively unimportant.
In terms of cleaning up our install and removing some long existing errors I am cleaning up these notifications.
Once that has also been around for longer is 'More than 100 items having missing data for more than 10 minutes'
I am having trouble figuring out what to do here. I've tried querying against the database to figure out which these 100+ items are so I can resolve it, but this is turning out to be a more cumbersome task than I anticipated.
For example, the first item with missing data I've ran into is one of our webchecks, regarding the icmppingloss item key.
When I tried to run it manually it does not recognise an item key of icmppingloss.
Furthermore, if I look in Zabbix I can actually see both data for this item and a graph for it as well (although it's 0% most of the time).
This makes me wonder, how to properly fight this issue? Is there a list I can generate from some source that actually tells me which items have data missing, so I can fix the issues?
I'm also wondering why it's not turning up anywhere else, surely if an item has data missing, this must indicate an issue between the Zabbix server and the Zabbix agent?
And if not, why does the Zabbix server monitor look at this value? If an item has no data and it should not have, then in my eyes Zabbix should not report it as a warning/error.
I would appreciate it if somebody could point me in the right direction so I can reduce our list of active triggers to 0... :-)
Extra information:
zabbix_server (Zabbix) 5.0.1
Revision c2a0b03480 25 May 2020, compilation time: May 28 2020 07:00:00
Kind regards,
Wesley Vestjens
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