Documentation

1 Manual structure
2 What is Zabbix
3 Zabbix features
4 Zabbix overview
5 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.0
6 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.1
7 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.2
8 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.3
9 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.4
10 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.5
11 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.6
12 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.7
13 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.8
14 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.9
15 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.10
15 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.11
16 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.12
17 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.13
18 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.14
19 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.15
20 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.16
21 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.17
22 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.18
23 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.19
24 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.20
25 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.21
26 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.22
27 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.23
28 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.24
29 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.25
30 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.26
31 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.27
32 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.28
33 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.29
34 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.30
35 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.31
36 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.32
37 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.33
38 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.34
39 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.35
40 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.36
41 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.37
42 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.38
43 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.39
44 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.40
45 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.41
46 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.42
47 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.43
48 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.44
49 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.45
2. Definitions
1 Server
2 Agent
3 Agent 2
4 Proxy
1 Setup from sources
2 Setup from RHEL/CentOS packages
3 Setup from Debian/Ubuntu packages
6 Sender
7 Get
8 JS
1 Getting Zabbix
Best practices for secure Zabbix setup
Building Zabbix agent 2 on Windows
Building Zabbix agent on macOS
Building Zabbix agent on Windows
1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS
2 Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian
3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 Windows agent installation from MSI
5 Mac OS agent installation from PKG
Installation with OpenShift
Updating to PHP 7.3 packages
2 Debian/Ubuntu frontend installation
1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS
2 Debian/Ubuntu
Upgrade from sources
1 Compilation issues
9 Template changes
10 Upgrade notes for 5.0.0
11 Upgrade notes for 5.0.1
12 Upgrade notes for 5.0.2
13 Upgrade notes for 5.0.3
14 Upgrade notes for 5.0.4
15 Upgrade notes for 5.0.5
16 Upgrade notes for 5.0.6
17 Upgrade notes for 5.0.7
18 Upgrade notes for 5.0.8
19 Upgrade notes for 5.0.9
20 Upgrade notes for 5.0.10
21 Upgrade notes for 5.0.11
22 Upgrade notes for 5.0.12
23 Upgrade notes for 5.0.13
24 Upgrade notes for 5.0.14
25 Upgrade notes for 5.0.15
26 Upgrade notes for 5.0.16
27 Upgrade notes for 5.0.17
28 Upgrade notes for 5.0.18
29 Upgrade notes for 5.0.19
30 Upgrade notes for 5.0.20
31 Upgrade notes for 5.0.21
32 Upgrade notes for 5.0.22
33 Upgrade notes for 5.0.23
34 Upgrade notes for 5.0.24
35 Upgrade notes for 5.0.25
36 Upgrade notes for 5.0.26
37 Upgrade notes for 5.0.27
38 Upgrade notes for 5.0.28
39 Upgrade notes for 5.0.29
40 Upgrade notes for 5.0.30
41 Upgrade notes for 5.0.31
42 Upgrade notes for 5.0.32
43 Upgrade notes for 5.0.33
44 Upgrade notes for 5.0.34
45 Upgrade notes for 5.0.35
46 Upgrade notes for 5.0.36
47 Upgrade notes for 5.0.37
48 Upgrade notes for 5.0.38
49 Upgrade notes for 5.0.39
50 Upgrade notes for 5.0.40
51 Upgrade notes for 5.0.41
52 Upgrade notes for 5.0.42
53 Upgrade notes for 5.0.43
54 Upgrade notes for 5.0.44
1 Login and configuring user
2 New host
3 New item
4 New trigger
5 Receiving problem notification
6 New template
6. Zabbix appliance
1 Configuring a host
2 Inventory
3 Mass update
1 Item key format
2 Custom intervals
1 Usage examples
2 Preprocessing details
Escaping special characters from LLD macro values in JSONPath
Additional JavaScript objects
5 CSV to JSON preprocessing
Windows-specific item keys
Zabbix agent 2
1 Dynamic indexes
2 Special OIDs
3 MIB files
3 SNMP traps
4 IPMI checks
1 VMware monitoring item keys
6 Log file monitoring
7 Calculated items
8 Internal checks
9 SSH checks
10 Telnet checks
11 External checks
12 Aggregate checks
13 Trapper items
14 JMX monitoring
1 Recommended UnixODBC settings for MySQL
2 Recommended UnixODBC settings for PostgreSQL
3 Recommended UnixODBC settings for Oracle
4 Recommended UnixODBC settings for MSSQL
16 Dependent items
17 HTTP agent
18 Prometheus checks
4 History and trends
1 Extending Zabbix agents
6 Loadable modules
7 Windows performance counters
8 Mass update
9 Value mapping
10 Applications
11 Queue
12 Value cache
13 Execute now
14 Plugins
15 Restricting agent checks
1 Configuring a trigger
2 Trigger expression
3 Trigger dependencies
4 Trigger severity
5 Customizing trigger severities
6 Mass update
7 Predictive trigger functions
1 Trigger event generation
2 Other event sources
3 Manual closing of problems
Event tags
2 Global event correlation
1 Simple graphs
2 Custom graphs
3 Ad-hoc graphs
4 Aggregation in graphs
1 Configuring a network map
2 Host group elements
3 Link indicators
1 Screen elements
4 Slide shows
5 Host screens
6 Dashboard
1 Configuring a template
2 Linking/unlinking
3 Nesting
4 Mass update
HTTP template operation
IPMI template operation
JMX template operation
ODBC template operation
Standardized templates for network devices
Zabbix agent 2 template operation
Zabbix agent template operation
1 E-mail
2 SMS
3 Custom alertscripts
Webhook script examples
1 Conditions
1 Sending message
2 Remote commands
3 Additional operations
4 Using macros in messages
3 Recovery operations
4 Update operations
5 Escalations
3 Receiving notification on unsupported items
1 Macro functions
2 User macros
3 User macros with context
4 Low-level discovery macros
1 Configuring a user
2 Permissions
3 User groups
8. Service monitoring
1 Web monitoring items
2 Real-life scenario
1 Virtual machine discovery key fields
11. Maintenance
12. Regular expressions
13. Problem acknowledgment
1 Host groups
2 Templates
3 Hosts
4 Network maps
5 Screens
6 Media types
1 Configuring a network discovery rule
2 Active agent autoregistration
1 Discovery of mounted filesystems
2 Discovery of network interfaces
3 Discovery of CPUs and CPU cores
4 Discovery of SNMP OIDs
5 Discovery of JMX objects
6 Discovery of IPMI sensors
7 Discovery of systemd services
8 Discovery of Windows services
9 Discovery of Windows performance counter instances
10 Discovery using WMI queries
11 Discovery using ODBC SQL queries
12 Discovery using Prometheus data
13 Discovery of block devices
14 Discovery of host interfaces in Zabbix
Notes on low-level discovery
1 Proxies
1 Using certificates
2 Using pre-shared keys
1 Connection type or permission problems
2 Certificate problems
3 PSK problems
1 Menu
1 Dashboard widgets
2 Problems
1 Graphs
2 Web scenarios
4 Overview
5 Latest data
6 Screens
7 Maps
8 Discovery
9 Services
1 Overview
2 Hosts
1 System information
2 Availability report
3 Triggers top 100
4 Audit
5 Action log
6 Notifications
1 Host groups
2 Templates
1 Applications
2 Items
3 Triggers
4 Graphs
5 Discovery rules
6 Web scenarios
4 Maintenance
5 Actions
6 Event correlation
7 Discovery
8 Services
1 General
2 Proxies
3 Authentication
4 User groups
5 Users
6 Media types
7 Scripts
8 Queue
1 Global notifications
2 Sound in browsers
4 Global search
5 Frontend maintenance mode
6 Page parameters
7 Definitions
8 Creating your own theme
9 Debug mode
10 Cookies used by Zabbix
> Action object
action.create
action.delete
action.get
action.update
> Alert object
alert.get
apiinfo.version
> Application object
application.create
application.delete
application.get
application.massadd
application.update
> Audit log object
auditlog.get
> Autoregistration object
autoregistration.get
autoregistration.update
configuration.export
configuration.import
> Correlation object
correlation.create
correlation.delete
correlation.get
correlation.update
> Dashboard object
dashboard.create
dashboard.delete
dashboard.get
dashboard.update
> Discovered host object
dhost.get
> Discovered service object
dservice.get
> Discovery check object
dcheck.get
> Discovery rule object
drule.create
drule.delete
drule.get
drule.update
> Event object
event.acknowledge
event.get
> Graph object
graph.create
graph.delete
graph.get
graph.update
> Graph item object
graphitem.get
> Graph prototype object
graphprototype.create
graphprototype.delete
graphprototype.get
graphprototype.update
> History object
history.get
> Host object
host.create
host.delete
host.get
host.massadd
host.massremove
host.massupdate
host.update
> Host group object
hostgroup.create
hostgroup.delete
hostgroup.get
hostgroup.massadd
hostgroup.massremove
hostgroup.massupdate
hostgroup.update
> Host interface object
hostinterface.create
hostinterface.delete
hostinterface.get
hostinterface.massadd
hostinterface.massremove
hostinterface.replacehostinterfaces
hostinterface.update
> Host prototype object
hostprototype.create
hostprototype.delete
hostprototype.get
hostprototype.update
> Icon map object
iconmap.create
iconmap.delete
iconmap.get
iconmap.update
> Image object
image.create
image.delete
image.get
image.update
> Item object
item.create
item.delete
item.get
item.update
> Item prototype object
itemprototype.create
itemprototype.delete
itemprototype.get
itemprototype.update
> LLD rule object
discoveryrule.copy
discoveryrule.create
discoveryrule.delete
discoveryrule.get
discoveryrule.update
> Maintenance object
maintenance.create
maintenance.delete
maintenance.get
maintenance.update
> Map object
map.create
map.delete
map.get
map.update
> Media type object
mediatype.create
mediatype.delete
mediatype.get
mediatype.update
> Problem object
problem.get
> Proxy object
proxy.create
proxy.delete
proxy.get
proxy.update
> Screen object
screen.create
screen.delete
screen.get
screen.update
> Screen item object
screenitem.create
screenitem.delete
screenitem.get
screenitem.update
screenitem.updatebyposition
> Script object
script.create
script.delete
script.execute
script.get
script.getscriptsbyhosts
script.update
> Service object
service.adddependencies
service.addtimes
service.create
service.delete
service.deletedependencies
service.deletetimes
service.get
service.getsla
service.update
> Task object
task.create
task.get
> Template object
template.create
template.delete
template.get
template.massadd
template.massremove
template.massupdate
template.update
> Template screen object
templatescreen.copy
templatescreen.create
templatescreen.delete
templatescreen.get
templatescreen.update
> Template screen item object
templatescreenitem.get
> Trend object
trend.get
> Trigger object
trigger.adddependencies
trigger.create
trigger.delete
trigger.deletedependencies
trigger.get
trigger.update
> Trigger prototype object
triggerprototype.create
triggerprototype.delete
triggerprototype.get
triggerprototype.update
> User object
user.checkAuthentication
user.create
user.delete
user.get
user.login
user.logout
user.update
> User group object
usergroup.create
usergroup.delete
usergroup.get
usergroup.update
> User macro object
usermacro.create
usermacro.createglobal
usermacro.delete
usermacro.deleteglobal
usermacro.get
usermacro.update
usermacro.updateglobal
> Value map object
valuemap.create
valuemap.delete
valuemap.get
valuemap.update
> Web scenario object
httptest.create
httptest.delete
httptest.get
httptest.update
Appendix 1. Reference commentary
Appendix 2. Changes from 4.4 to 5.0
Zabbix API changes in 5.0
20. Modules
1 Frequently asked questions / Troubleshooting
1 Database creation
2 Repairing Zabbix database character set and collation
1 MySQL encryption configuration
2 PostgreSQL encryption configuration
4 TimescaleDB setup
5 Elasticsearch setup
6 Real-time export of events, item values, trends
7 Distribution-specific notes on setting up Nginx for Zabbix
8 Running agent as root
9 Zabbix agent on Microsoft Windows
10 SAML setup with Okta
11 Additional frontend languages
1 Zabbix server
2 Zabbix proxy
3 Zabbix agent (UNIX)
4 Zabbix agent 2 (UNIX)
5 Zabbix agent (Windows)
6 Zabbix agent 2 (Windows)
7 Zabbix Java gateway
8 Inclusion
1 Server-proxy data exchange protocol
2 Zabbix agent protocol
3 Zabbix agent 2 protocol
4 Zabbix agent 2 plugin protocol
5 Zabbix sender protocol
6 Header
7 Real-time export protocol
1 Items supported by platform
2 vm.memory.size parameters
3 Passive and active agent checks
4 Trapper items
5 Minimum permission level for Windows agent items
6 Encoding of returned values
7 Large file support
8 Sensor
9 Notes on memtype parameter in proc.mem items
10 Notes on selecting processes in proc.mem and proc.num items
11 Implementation details of net.tcp.service and net.udp.service checks
12 Unreachable/unavailable host settings
13 Remote monitoring of Zabbix stats
14 Configuring Kerberos with Zabbix
1 Supported trigger functions
1 Supported macros
2 User macros supported by location
8 Unit symbols
9 Time period syntax
10 Command execution
11 Version compatibility
12 Database error handling
13 Zabbix sender dynamic link library for Windows
14 Python library for Zabbix API
15 Issues with SELinux
16 Other issues
17 Agent vs agent 2 comparison
zabbix_agent2
zabbix_agentd
zabbix_get
zabbix_js
zabbix_proxy
zabbix_sender
zabbix_server

49 What's new in Zabbix 5.0.45

TimescaleDB 2.17 support

The maximum supported version for TimescaleDB is now 2.17.X.

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