Howto create a deep link to show latest data for given hostname?

[Thomas1000]

Hi!
My company decided to user Grafana as the main display tool (please don't start a discussion about this).
No I want to use a Grafana data-link to display this host in Zabbix. In Grafana I can only access the hostname, which is something like "my.host123.mydomain.com". Zabbix knows this host, but so far I only managed to display a host in zabbix by host-ID, but Grafana seems not to deal with Zabbix-Host-IDs.

My experiments with

https://zabbix.myhost.de/zabbix.php?action=latest.view&filter_hosts=var-Group=All&var-Host=my.host123.mydomain.com

failed as zabbix shows just the Latest data from some other (the first known) host as a result.

Does anyone know how to create a deep link into the latest data from a given host with the hostname as a parameter?

Thanks in advance and greetings from Germany

Thomas

[Thomas1000]

Hello folks?!

Anybody out there? Is my question that exotic?!

https://zabbix.myhost.de/zabbix.php?action=latest.view&filter_hosts=my.host .123.mydomain.com

does not work - any ideas how I could create a deeplink to zabbix?

Thanks in advance

Thomas

[ISiroshtan]

I don't believe you can substitute host.id by hostname in latest.view. Similarly I don't believe grafana plugin to work with Zabbix exposes host.id.

But I can suggest alternative. Use "action=host.view" instead of "action=latest.view". True - it does not lead directly to latest data information, but it will be a host overview, having links to all of "latest data"/graphs/problems/dashboards". And it accepts hostname in url, as it does search by hostname and not opens data directly by host.id.

Thinking about it, I would argue the host overview option might end up better then just dropping user into latest data in quite a few cases

[Thomas1000]

Thank you for your answer and your time!

Based on your suggestion I tried:

https://zabbix.myzabbixhost.de/zabbix.php?action=host.view&filter_hosts=myhostname.de

But got just a display based on my last session on the Zabbix-Interface. Did I use the syntax you suggested, or is it another parameter-name instead of "filter_hosts" ?

Thanks in advance!

Thomas

[ISiroshtan]

Right, sorry, my bad
It seems it should be "&name=my-host". So something like this works on my setup:"https://myzabbix.company.com/zabbix.php?name=myhost-5&action=host.view"

Also in our setup we use visible name field on hosts, so the value supplied should be a visible name. If you don't use visible name in Zabbix - then the hostname should do the trick.

[Thomas1000]

Thanks a lot! That did the trick - so easy...

Now I can jump via link directly to the Hosts-Page, where the Name-Filter shows just the host I set via parameter in the URL - great!

Do you have an Idea how to display "latest data" like that? Here the Parameter Name sets the wrong filter. Using "host" or "hosts" instead of "name" as parameter-name doesn't work.

Any trick to accomplish that?!

Thanks in advance

Thomas

[ISiroshtan]

As I was mentioning in my original message, it's an alternative to what you try to achieve. I don't believe you can do same with latest data as it is select based on hostID, and Zabbix plugin for Grafana seemingly does not expose said information.