Zabbix+Grafana tips

Ambarishrh

Installed Zabbix and tried few things on it, but not yet fully explored. I could see that i can add graphs on the screens section, so just added cpu utilisation, memory, disk etc for each host. I would like to hear from the experts on how well do you use zabbix and what tips can you give to make the most out of zabbix. I would also like to know how grafana can be used for better look and feel graphs and metrix.

Installed grafana, got the dashboard, added zabbix plugin and then i am stuck. It says to add the json.php url of zabbix server, but i believe there should be some settings on zabbix server to bring out the graphs and charts to grafana, how can i do that?

Lakshmana

@Ambarishrh said:
I have seen some tips in this site.
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.4/manual/api

Lakshmana

Please verify this also

https://github.com/alexanderzobnin/grafana-zabbix/wiki/Installation

Youtube Video

Ambarishrh

Thanks @Lakshmana for the links. I installed grafana, and downloaded the latest plugin, copied to the datasource folder. I could see zabbix on the drop down, configured as per the doc but i couldn't get the zabbox servers on the dashboard. Seems like I am missing something.

Ambarishrh

Finally, configured Zabbix and grafana!

https://i.imgur.com/Le5O8YC.png

scottalanmiller

@Ambarishrh Awesome!!

hobbit666

Going to have a look at that.
We use Zabbix but at the moment only for a "is it up" monitor

Reid Cooper

@hobbit666 said:

Going to have a look at that.
We use Zabbix but at the moment only for a "is it up" monitor

There is so much that you can do with Zabbix. Very powerful platform.

hobbit666

@Reid-Cooper said:

There is so much that you can do with Zabbix. Very powerful platform.

Yeah never really explord the "whole" thing it is on my list the next time i need to rebuild it (which will be soon)

Ambarishrh

To send email notifications, i used the script from https://gist.github.com/superdaigo/3754055

Now i would like to setup dashboards in grafana that looks something like the below gif but couldn't figure out, how to get those blocks which says the uptime, memory status rather than the graphs!

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4932851/8312492/7f286c38-19e5-11e5-8c19-1b9e97292b06.gif

Ambarishrh

https://share.zabbix.com/ A great site for Zabbix templates and modules

Ambarishrh

I am surprised to see the amount of customisations/templates created by the community for Zabbix. This one is huge! https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix-community-repos

scottalanmiller

It is a very popular project.