Monitoring data from a REST API

[martin.lester]

I will start by saying I am a Zabbix noob. Getting things monitored with Zabbix agents was so easy I thought I'd try and be clever...

I have a system with a bunch of data that is accessible via a REST API. I have created 2 scripts that call the API and get data. The first returns a list of items that I have counters for:

key:get-items.sh

{
    "data": [
    {
        "{#NAME}": "TEST1"
    }, 
    {
        "{#NAME}": "TEST2"
    }]
}

The second script uses the {#NAME} as a parameter to the REST API to get the counters for that specific item. So the data for TEST1 is:

key: get-counters.sh[{#NAME}]

{
    "data": [
    {
        "{#COUNTER_TYPE}": "STARTUP_FAIL",
        "{#COUNTER_CURRENT}": 1,
        "{#COUNTER_MAX}": 3
    },
    {
        "{#COUNTER_TYPE}": "SHUTDOWN_FAIL",
        "{#COUNTER_CURRENT}": 3,
        "{#COUNTER_MAX}": 10
    }]
}

What I was initially hoping to do was create a bunch of "hosts" and add each of the counters to those hosts as items, then create triggers, graphs, etc.

From what I've read that didn't seem possible so I created a host and added a discovery rule to it which called the first script and as a filter used {#NAME}. Then added an item that passed the {#NAME} to the second script which I collected the data as text. This works, in so much as it does show the data was collected, i.e. there are 2 discovered items and the content of those items is the JSON from the second script but this is little help as I can't work out how to get from there to TEST1.SHUTDOWN_FAIL.COUNTER_CURRENT=3.

What I am getting to is this is not the right approach and I am missing something, but I don't what.

I did find this but it wasn't enough help for me: https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthr...evel+discovery

Incidentally I am not attached to anything I have done with Zabbix or the scripts I have written. If the answer is throw it away and do it like this, I'll be happy because at least I'll know what this is!