Site or Proxy-level Web Dashboard or Data Export

[ncarl]

Hello,

Is there a way to have all item values dumped into a file as they pass through the Zabbix Proxy?

Background in case useful.

• We're monitoring ~30 sites, each with their own proxy, under a single Zabbix server.
  • Today, this is mainly used for alerting and not long-term metrics/analytics data.
• Each site's users like to have a local dashboard for metrics.
  • We're using Ganglia for this today but looking for replacements since it is barely developed anymore.
• We do have a separate longer-term metrics/analytics system that Ganglia feeds into today.
  • This system is near Zabbix Server, so we'd likely use the new data export functionality to just feed into that and depend on Zabbix to collect instead.
  • If we're able to do above, it'd be nice to not send the exported/processed metric data back to the sites with Zabbix Proxies, after processing. Would like to capture/display as it leaves the site if possible.

Any feedback or ideas on above is appreciated.

Thanks!
Nick

[PeterZielony]

hm.. rather not possible to use Zabbix web to display it.

sites are connected to the main server via some tunnel? Or is there a way to get data from those sites using the Zabbix API web service? If that's the case you could use Grafana deployed on sites that are connecting via API to Zabbix's web server and display live metrics this way.

But this requires sending data back. You can investigate tables in local proxies to see if you can get insight into values - this way you could tap into data from proxy but you will need to write or find something to consume values and display them locally ( also grafana with DB connector)

Look into a documentation of proxy variables here and related parameters:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/appendix/config/zabbix_proxy#proxybuffermode

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/appendix/config/zabbix_proxy#proxylocalbuffer

more hackery way is to deploy zabbix servers on each site separated from your Main Zabbix Server- that could monitor proxy DB for values but it will be harder to maintain... but doable and also will allow to collect historical data for that site