Zabbix services and ghost events

[vad-valrc]

Hello all,

We are using Zabbix 7.0 LTS (current version of server is 7.0.8). I'm trying to focus alerting on services instead of triggers. It works well after a good tagging of everything BUT I'm facing an issue with some ghost events.

Some service raises a status related to an event I could not browse anymore. A simple way to reproduce is to have a trigger that match on a host and disable this host before it has been resolved.

In problem view everything has disappeared. But in service view my status stays unchanged. The event / trigger is still referenced but when I click on it it displays nothing.



I found a workaround that is not working anymore. I took the trigger_id in the url and close all events associated through API. But it doesn't work anymore or in the current trigger I'm currently having.

Disabled host is not the only reason of having ghost event like that but I've not identified it clearly.

Is there any reason of this behavior ?
Thank you.

[vad-valrc]

Am I the only one having this kind of issue?

Here is another usecase that generates this issue. On a discovery rule I have a trigger that generates a problem. Few time later this trigger is not discovered anymore and so disabled then it is deleted few hours later. Unfortunately this generate ghost events.

So then I have services in a High status. Problem is mentioned on the service level but when we want to browse it doesn't exist anymore. So service is in a bad status although everything is now OK.