Creating a dashboard table with many sub-items from a single host
Hi.
I've got a Zabbix 7 instance where i'm pulling a lot of dependant items off a single XML request to a single host, and trying to find a way to present the results in a simple way to an operator.
Each instance (which we expect to grow over time) currently has 8 different sub items, each with the same name, so we've tagged each one with a "component:" information.
An example of what I'm trying to achieve is below, without creating thousands of individual "item value" items on the dashboard: in this case, all these apps are on the same host.
Because each of these apps are all on the same hosts, i can't seem to use the "top items" or "top hosts" dashboard items, and while the honeycomb solution may work, it's not quite neat.
Am i missing something? I want to develop a discovery item for this as well so that we don't have to hard code each instance into the config, so i'm trying to be a little "forward looking" as well.
I'm currently using multiple "top hosts" with the items individually selected (resulting in a transposed version of the above, with apps across the top and items down the side, but that's also janky)
Another option i have considered is pulling each app instance into their own host, fully dependant on the single XML query from the source host, but that also seems inefficient, and i don't know if it's possible to create hosts off discovery (it must be given VMware and other pollers types do this)
Any help gratefully appreciated.
I've got a Zabbix 7 instance where i'm pulling a lot of dependant items off a single XML request to a single host, and trying to find a way to present the results in a simple way to an operator.
Each instance (which we expect to grow over time) currently has 8 different sub items, each with the same name, so we've tagged each one with a "component:" information.
An example of what I'm trying to achieve is below, without creating thousands of individual "item value" items on the dashboard: in this case, all these apps are on the same host.
Because each of these apps are all on the same hosts, i can't seem to use the "top items" or "top hosts" dashboard items, and while the honeycomb solution may work, it's not quite neat.
Am i missing something? I want to develop a discovery item for this as well so that we don't have to hard code each instance into the config, so i'm trying to be a little "forward looking" as well.
I'm currently using multiple "top hosts" with the items individually selected (resulting in a transposed version of the above, with apps across the top and items down the side, but that's also janky)
Another option i have considered is pulling each app instance into their own host, fully dependant on the single XML query from the source host, but that also seems inefficient, and i don't know if it's possible to create hosts off discovery (it must be given VMware and other pollers types do this)
Any help gratefully appreciated.
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