Table of Contents
1 Dashboard
Overview
The Monitoring → Dashboard section is designed to display summaries of all the important information.
A dashboard consists of widgets and each widget is designed to display information of a certain kind and source, which can be a summary, a map, a graph, the clock, etc.
Widgets are added and edited in the dashboard editing mode. Widgets are viewed in the dashboard viewing mode.
While in a single dashboard you can group widgets from various sources for a quick overview, it is also possible to create several dashboards containing different sets of overviews and switch between them.
Viewing dashboards
To access all configured dashboards, click on the All dashboards link just below the section title.
To view a single dashboard, click on its name in the list of all dashboards.
To delete one or several dashboards, mark the checkboxes of the respective dashboards and click on Delete below the list.
Creating a dashboard
When viewing all dashboards, you can click on the Create dashboard button to create a new dashboard:
Initially the dashboard is empty. You can add widgets to the dashboard by:
- clicking on the Add widget button
- clicking on the Add a new widget link in the widget placeholder
Click on the Save changes button to save the dashboard. If you click on Cancel, the dashboard will not be created.
Adding widgets
To add widget to a dashboard:
- Click on the Add widget button/link in dashboard editing mode
- Select the Type of widget
- Enter widget parameters
- Click on Add
The following widgets can be added to a dashboard:
- Action log
- Clock
- Data overview
- Discovery status
- Favourite graphs
- Favourite maps
- Favourite screens
- Graph
- Host status
- Map
- Map navigation tree
- Plain text
- Problems
- Status of Zabbix
- System status
- Trigger overview
- URL
- Web monitoring
In dashboard editing mode widgets can be moved around the dashboard by clicking on the widget title bar and dragging it to a new location. Also, you can click on the following buttons within the widget to:
- edit a widget;
- remove a widget
Click on Save changes for the dashboard to make any changes to the widgets permanent.
Dynamic widgets
When configuring some of the widgets:
- Graphs (simple and custom)
- Plain text
- URL
there is an extra option called Dynamic item. You can check this box to make the widget dynamic - i.e. capable of displaying different content based on the selected host.
Now, when saving the dashboard, you will notice that two new dropdowns have appeared atop the dashboard for selecting the host group/host:
Thus you have a widget, which can display content that is based on the data from the host that is selected in the dropdown. The benefit of this is that you do not need to create extra widgets just because, for example, you want to see the same graphs containing data from various hosts.
Viewing and editing a dashboard
When viewing a single dashboard, the following options are available:
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Switch to the dashboard editing mode. | |
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Open the action menu. | |
| Sharing | Edit sharing preferences for the dashboard. Dashboards can be made public or private. Public dashboards are visible to all users. Private dashboards are visible only to their owner. Private dashboards can be shared by the owner to other users and user groups. For details on configuring sharing, see the map configuration section. |
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| Create new | Create a new dashboard. First you are prompted to enter general properties of the new dashboard - owner and name. Then, the new dashboard opens in editing mode and you can add widgets. |
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| Clone | Create a new dashboard by copying properties of the existing one. First you are prompted to enter general properties of the new dashboard - owner and name. Then, the new dashboard opens in editing mode with all the widgets of the original dashboard. |
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| Delete | Delete the dashboard. | |
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Display dashboard in fullscreen mode. | |
Editing mode is opened:
- when a new dashboard is being created
- when you click the Edit dashboard button for an existing dashboard
In the dashboard editing mode the following options are available:
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Edit general dashboard properties - name and owner. |
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Add a new widget. |
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Save dashboard changes. |
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Cancel dashboard changes. |
Permissions to dashboards
Permissions to dashboards for regular and Zabbix Admin users since Zabbix 3.4.2 are limited in the following way:
- They can see and clone a dashboard if they have at least READ rights to it;
- They can edit and delete dashboard only if they have READ/WRITE rights to it;
- They cannot change the dashboard owner.
Before Zabbix 3.4.2, the rights of Admin level users were not limited in this way.
Host menu
Clicking on a host in the Problems widget brings up the host menu. It includes links to custom scripts, latest data, triggers, inventory, graphs and screens for the host.
The host menu is accessible by clicking on a host in several other frontend sections:
- Monitoring → Problems
- Monitoring → Problems → Event details
- Monitoring → Overview (on Hosts: left)
- Monitoring → Latest data
- Monitoring → Triggers
- Monitoring → Screens (in Host issues and Host group issues widgets)
- Monitoring → Maps
- Reports → Triggers top 100
Trigger event popup
Rolling a mouse over Problem-Severity in the Problems widget brings up the trigger event popup. It includes a list of events and, if defined, the trigger description and a clickable URL.
