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
• Problem hosts
• Map
• Map navigation tree
• Plain text
• Problems
• System information
• Problems by severity
• 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:

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:

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 → 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.

Page menu

The page menu can be opened by clicking on the three dots next to the page name:

It contains the following options:

• Copy - copy the page
• Delete - delete the page (pages can only be deleted in the dashboard editing mode)
• Properties - customize the page parameters (the name and the page display period in a slideshow)

Widget menu

The widget menu contains different options based on whether the dashboard is in the edit or view mode:

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 a new host selection field has appeared atop the dashboard for selecting the host (while the Select button allows selecting the host group in a popup):

Thus you have a widget, which can display content that is based on the data from the host that is selected. 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.

Permissions to dashboards

Permissions to dashboards for regular users and users of 'Admin' type 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.

Host menu

Clicking on a host in the Problems widget brings up the host menu. It includes links to host inventory, latest data, problems, graphs, dashboards, web scenarios and configuration. Note that host configuration is available for Admin and Superadmin users only.

Global scripts can also be run from the host menu. These scripts need to have their scope defined as 'Manual host action' to be available in the host menu.

The host menu is accessible by clicking on a host in several other frontend sections:

• Monitoring → Problems
• Monitoring → Problems → Event details
• Monitoring → Hosts
• Monitoring → Hosts → Web Monitoring
• Monitoring → Overview (on Hosts: left)
• Monitoring → Latest data
• Monitoring → Maps
• Reports → Triggers top 100

Problem event popup

The problem event popup includes the list of problem events for this trigger and, if defined, the trigger description and a clickable URL.

To bring up the problem event popup:

• roll a mouse over the problem duration in the Duration column of the Problems widget. The popup disappears once you remove the mouse from the duration.
• click on the duration in the Duration column of the Problems widget. The popup disappears only if you click on the duration again.