Real-time graph for debugging?

[desmondho]

Dear Zabbix Developer,

I found zabbix graph was limited to minimum an hour in time range, and i would like to have a closer look for debugging some network behavior.

May i know do zabbix have any real-time graph like cacti?

(Ideal case is: Zabbix will show a temporary graph override the item checking interval and updating a real-time graph each 5 sec or user specified time)


Best regards,
Desmond Ho

[kloczek]

May i know do zabbix have any real-time graph like cacti?

As special case? No.
However you change in your profile settings to shorter time of refresh pages and shorter sampling rate of your metrics.
If you are using proxy to monitor host you may change as well ProxyDataFrequency to have lower delay of passing data from proxy to server.

[BDiE8VNy]

Another way could be to create a custom view that directly queries Zabbix agents on demand in a much shorter interval.
See Utilizing the ZBX Protocols (jump to ~12:00) to get the idea.

[desmondho]

@kloczek

Thanks for the reply, I am aware that i could change the setting of item interval for closer look, but the minimum graph time-span is 1 hour, it will not give me a 5 or 10 mins graph for the best result

@BDiE8VNy

Thats what i want, but will Zabbix Team apply this feature in the future?

[BDiE8VNy]

It's unlikely to happen without significant backing/votes of a corresponding (afaik, not yet existing) feature request.
Beside of that there is always the option of (co-)sponsoring.

[kloczek]

@kloczek

Thanks for the reply, I am aware that i could change the setting of item interval for closer look, but the minimum graph time-span is 1 hour, it will not give me a 5 or 10 mins graph for the best result

@BDiE8VNy

Thats what i want, but will Zabbix Team apply this feature in the future?

(Mode=kidding)
So you need wider monitor. Modern 4k monitor should be ok
(Mode)

I think that add 30min, 10 min time farme to existing rulers should be quite easy.