Same question again, and again, and again - Number of items discovered???

[Noobz]

Does anyone have a simple built in way of creating an item or trigger based on the number of items discovered?
I can do this with a script, I can do this via SQL - I don't want to, and shouldn't have to.

Hate to come across this way but this is frustrating as it has been a request for years

[dimir]

Yes, many are waiting for

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-927

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-1420

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-3514 (a workaround on how to get the number of discovered items is mentioned here)

[Noobz]

Yes, many are waiting for

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-927

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-1420

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-3514 (a workaround on how to get the number of discovered items is mentioned here)

Thank you, yes, it has been years with nothing done - it seems amazing that there are SQL statements which already do this yet it is a herculean task to implement in the front end?

Anyway, I've solved this with a pretty simple workaround contained within Zabbix front end anyway.

[Noobz]

I don't know why this doesn't have a solution which is more easily found.

All that is required is to create an item using a discovery OID (not an item prototype and not a discovery rule), then use javascript preprocessing, create an array from the returned string, split on the comma, then divide the array length by 2.

It takes maybe 10 seconds.

[dimir]

The problem comes when you have a lot of discovered items. Take, thousands. Displaying them all on a single graph with different color sounds stupid. Displaying partly - not so useful. But nevertheless I'm not saying this shouldn't be made at least for part of users.

Could be something like, display if less than X items as a graph, otherwise just raw values.

[Noobz]

The problem comes when you have a lot of discovered items. Take, thousands. Displaying them all on a single graph with different color sounds stupid. Displaying partly - not so useful. But nevertheless I'm not saying this shouldn't be made at least for part of users.

Could be something like, display if less than X items as a graph, otherwise just raw values.

I think we're talking about different things, I just want to know how many items were discovered, nothing to do with graphing.

[dimir]

I see. Well, usually if we implement something we try to make a feature complete. Graphs for discovered items are often asked so I brought it here. :-)