Measure HTTP Agent response time

[MitchC]

Zabbix 6.4.3 on Ubuntu 22.04 (mysql)

I've been successful at using the HTTP Agent to retrieve information in JSON and pull a value from the result.
How do I measure the response time of that HTTP request?
The only way that I've discovered to measure the response time is with a Web Scenario. I don't really want to have both of those items hitting the server.

[cyber]

http items do not record that time, so you need to have another item... Not necessarily web scenario... there are also web related items https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...onitoring-data
But then again.. those are not executed from server/proxy, so results are not completely comparable... If you use agent on server/proxy, it might be similar...

[Semiadmin]

You may try a script item with HttpRequest object instead of http agent. In JS you may get timestamps before and after http request and add difference to returned JSON as another key-value pair.

[MitchC]

Semiadmin That worked well, thanks.

I'm surprised that elapsed time is not available in the HTTP Agent - seems like a no-brainer to me.

[cyber]

Semiadmin That worked well, thanks.

I'm surprised that elapsed time is not available in the HTTP Agent - seems like a no-brainer to me.

I think original idea for http items has been getting the data, not measuring performance.. performance measurements are part of web scenarios and special items..
And no-brainer or not, it is against the 1 item, 1 value policy. It would turn http items into something else, where it creates multiple items or you need to have dependent items etc...