Remote Web Monitoring

[anrstone]

I'm sorry I've not posted much lately but where I've got to is as follows:

1) I can now capture all the data about a page and additionally an array of data about the page assets e.g.:

Content Type: e.g: text/html; charset=utf-8
Response Code: e.g: 200
Namelookup Time: e.g: 0.0097
Connect Time: e.g: 0.0166
Pretransfer Time: e.g: 0.0175
Starttransfer Time: e.g: 0.0800
Total Time: e.g: 1.2406
Redirect Time: e.g: 0.0000
Size Download: e.g: 274335
Actual Speed of Download: e.g: 221133
Total Number Assets: e.g: 276

This data is available for every asset along with a fair few other bits as well

2) That data is now all posted up to Zabbix. I have created a pseduo array type to pass details of the assets that make up a page

3) I have the PHP to create the graph as per my previous post though the styling in PHP needs some work to match the graph I posted up

What I've got left to do is:

- work out how to bolt the new graph in to the Zabbix interface
- allow an array data type in the items form
- recognize the array data type and link the graph to it etc.
- test post and web journey finctionality in the web sender

I'm more than happy to post code at somewhere if people are interested and if I get a moment I'll do that on my own site in absence of anything better

Nick

[unknown_man]

I'm sorry I've not posted much lately but where I've got to is as follows:

1) I can now capture all the data about a page and additionally an array of data about the page assets e.g.:

Content Type: e.g: text/html; charset=utf-8
Response Code: e.g: 200
Namelookup Time: e.g: 0.0097
Connect Time: e.g: 0.0166
Pretransfer Time: e.g: 0.0175
Starttransfer Time: e.g: 0.0800
Total Time: e.g: 1.2406
Redirect Time: e.g: 0.0000
Size Download: e.g: 274335
Actual Speed of Download: e.g: 221133
Total Number Assets: e.g: 276

This data is available for every asset along with a fair few other bits as well

2) That data is now all posted up to Zabbix. I have created a pseduo array type to pass details of the assets that make up a page

3) I have the PHP to create the graph as per my previous post though the styling in PHP needs some work to match the graph I posted up

What I've got left to do is:

- work out how to bolt the new graph in to the Zabbix interface
- allow an array data type in the items form
- recognize the array data type and link the graph to it etc.
- test post and web journey finctionality in the web sender

I'm more than happy to post code at somewhere if people are interested and if I get a moment I'll do that on my own site in absence of anything better

Nick

oh, please, Anrstone. I need those codes so badly! Could you upload them to somewhere and give me the link, or if possible, mail them to me at [email protected]?
thanks in advance

[anrstone]

I'll try and get them all posted up somewhere tonight or tomorrow.

[unknown_man]

I'll try and get them all posted up somewhere tonight or tomorrow.

I've been waiting 4 a long time, please upload your code as soon as possible T_T

[anrstone]

I haven't posted to this forum for a bit as to be honest I can't make Zabbix do exactly what I want out of the box. I have got the code working well enough to get all the data required / handle scheduling / handle regex matching of page html etc etc.

However, with the additional data (i.e. the information about the additional page assets which can be substantial) it seems that getting the data into zabbix in the current model is easy but there is no way of either displaying that data as a gantt style chart or linking the additional data to the original record about the specific page test.

I am currently working on a patch to provide this as functionality outside of zabbix by adding array style functionality to zabbix. Though making this work seemlessly with each patch release of zabbix itself has proved very difficult.

Ideas would be welcome...!

[mattsmith]

Hi anrstone,

Very interested in this post, this is something that we are also looking to achieve. From the looks of things you have made excellent progress.

Earlier in the thread you mentioned publishing your code. Do you have a site that this can be downloaded from?

richlv, do you know if similar functionality is planned for 2.0?

Cheers
Matt

[richlv]

i'm not aware of short term plans in this area. you can see a rough roadmap for 2.0 at https://zabbix.org/wiki/Docs/specs/2.0_roadmap

[anrstone]

Hi mattsmith

I probably could put the code somewhere. It's not very beautiful I'm afraid but it does work. The bit that doesn't do much is the gantt chart view - I have some code that can render the data as a gantt chart but I simply haven't had time to extend zabbix to display it. What we currently do is cature all the other data and ignore the additional page data (i.e. the bit that has the individual asset information - though it is captured...)

I will tar the code up and shove it online somewhere and post a link.

Nick