1 Dashboard widgets

Overview

This section lists available dashboard widgets and provides details for widget configuration.

The following parameters are common for every single widget:

Refresh intervals for a widget can be set to a default value for all the corresponding users and also each user can set his own refresh interval value:

• To set a default value for all the corresponding users switch to editing mode (click the Edit dashboard button, find the right widget, click the Edit button opening the editing form of a widget), and choose the required refresh interval from the dropdown list.
• Setting a unique refresh interval for each user separately is possible in view mode by clicking the button for a certain widget.

Unique refresh interval set by a user has priority over the widget setting and once it's set it's always preserved when the widget's setting is modified.

Action log

In the action log widget, you can display details of action operations (notifications, remote commands). It replicates information from Administration → Audit.

To configure, select Action log as type:

You may set the following specific options:

Clock

In the clock widget, you may display local, server, or specified host time.

To configure, select Clock as type:

You may set the following specific options:

Data overview

In the data overview widget, you can display the latest data for a group of hosts. It replicates information from Monitoring → Overview (when viewing Data overview).

The color of problem items is based on the problem severity color, which can be adjusted in the problem update screen.

By default, only values that fall within the last 24 hours are displayed. This limit has been introduced with the aim of improving initial loading times for large pages of latest data. This limit is configurable in Administration → General → GUI, using the Max history display period option.

Clicking on a piece of data offers links to some predefined graphs or latest values.

Note that 50 records are displayed by default (configurable in Administration → General → GUI, using the Max number of columns and rows in overview tables option). If more records exist than are configured to display, a message is displayed at the bottom of the table, asking to provide more specific filtering criteria. There is no pagination.

To configure, select Data overview as type:

You may set the following specific options:

Discovery status

This widget displays a status summary of the active network discovery rules.

Favorite graphs

This widget contains shortcuts to the most needed graphs, sorted alphabetically.

The list of shortcuts is populated when you view a graph and then click on its Add to favorites button.

Favorite maps

This widget contains shortcuts to the most needed maps, sorted alphabetically.

The list of shortcuts is populated when you view a map and then click on its Add to favorites button.

Graph

The graph widget provides a modern and versatile way of visualizing data collected by Zabbix using a vector image drawing technique. This graph widget is supported since Zabbix 4.0. Note that the graph widget supported before Zabbix 4.0 can still be used as Graph (classic).

To configure, select Graph as type:

The Data set tab allows to add data sets and define their visual representation:

Existing data sets are displayed in a list. You may:

• - click on this button to add a new data set
• - click on the color icon to expand/collapse data set details
• - click on the move icon and drag a data set to a new place in the list

The Displaying options tab allows to define history data selection:

The Time period tab allows to set a custom time period:

The Axes tab allows to customize how axes are displayed:

The Legend tab allows to customize the graph legend:

The Problems tab allows to customize the problem display:

The Overrides tab allows to add custom overrides for data sets:

Overrides are useful when several items are selected for a data set using the * wildcard and you want to change how the items are displayed by default (e.g. default base color or any other property).

Existing overrides (if any) are displayed in a list. To add a new override:

• Click on the button
• Select hosts and items for the override. Alternatively, you may enter host and item patterns. Wildcard patterns may be used (for example, * will return results that match zero or more characters). To specify a wildcard pattern, just enter the string manually and press Enter. While you are typing, note how all matching hosts are displayed in the dropdown. The wildcard symbol is always interpreted, therefore it is not possible to add, for example, an item named "item*" individually if there are other matching items (e.g. item2, item3). Host pattern and item pattern fields are mandatory.
• Click on , to select override parameters. At least one override parameter should be selected. For parameter descriptions, see the Data set tab above.

Information displayed by the graph widget can be downloaded as a .png image using the widget menu:

A screenshot of the widget will be saved to the Downloads folder.

Graph (classic)

In the classic graph widget, you can display a single custom graph or simple graph.

To configure, select Graph (classic) as type:

You may set the following specific options:

Information displayed by the classic graph widget can be downloaded as .png image using the widget menu:

A screenshot of the widget will be saved to the Downloads folder.

Graph prototype

In the graph prototype widget, you can display a grid of graphs created from either a graph prototype or an item prototype by low-level discovery.

To configure, select Graph prototype as widget type:

You may set the following specific options:

While the Columns and Rows settings allow fitting more than one graph in the widget, there still may be more discovered graphs than there are columns/rows in the widget. In this case paging becomes available in the widget and a slide-up header allows to switch between pages using the left and right arrows.

Host availability

In the host availability widget, high-level statistics about host availability are displayed in four colored columns/lines.

Host availability in each column/line is counted as follows:

• Available - hosts with all interfaces available
• Not available - hosts with at least one interface unavailable
• Unknown - hosts with at least one interface unknown (none unavailable)
• Total - total of all hosts

To configure, select Host availability as type:

You may set the following specific options:

Map

In the map widget you can display either:

• a single configured network map
• one of the configured network maps in the map navigation tree (when clicking on the map name in the tree).

To configure, select Map as type:

You may set the following specific options:

See also: known issue with IE11

Map navigation tree

This widget allows building a hierarchy of existing maps while also displaying problem statistics with each included map and map group.

It becomes even more powerful if you link the Map widget to the navigation tree. In this case, clicking on a map name in the navigation tree displays the map in full in the Map widget.

Statistics with the top-level map in the hierarchy display a sum of problems of all sub-maps and their own problems.

To configure the navigation tree widget, select Map navigation tree as type:

You may set the following specific options:

Plain text

In the plain text widget, you can display the latest item data in plain text.

To configure, select Plain text as type:

You may set the following specific options:

Problem hosts

In the host information widget, you can display high-level information about host availability.

To configure, select Problem hosts as type:

You may set the following specific options:

Problems

In this widget you can display current problems. The information in this widget is similar to Monitoring → Problems.

To configure, select Problems as type:

You can limit how many problems are displayed in the widget in various ways - by problem status, problem name, severity, host group, host, event tag, acknowledgment status, etc.

Problems by severity

In this widget, you can display problems by severity. You can limit what hosts and triggers are displayed in the widget and define how the problem count is displayed.

To configure, select Problems by severity as type:

You may set the following specific options:

System information

In the System information widget, you can display high-level Zabbix and Zabbix server information.

To configure, select System information as type:

Trigger overview

In the trigger overview widget, you can display the trigger states for a group of hosts. It replicates information from Monitoring → Overview (when viewing Trigger overview).

• The trigger states are displayed as colored blocks (the color of problem triggers depends on the problem severity color, which can be adjusted in the problem update screen). Note that recent trigger changes (within the last 2 minutes) will be displayed as blinking blocks.
• Blue up and down arrows indicate triggers that have dependencies. On mouseover, dependency details are revealed.
• A checkbox icon indicates acknowledged problems. All problems or resolved problems of the trigger must be acknowledged for this icon to be displayed.

Clicking on a trigger block provides context-dependent links to problem events of the trigger, the problem acknowledgment screen, trigger configuration, trigger URL or a simple graph/latest values list.

Note that 50 records are displayed by default (configurable in Administration → General → GUI, using the Max number of columns and rows in overview tables option). If more records exist than are configured to display, a message is displayed at the bottom of the table, asking to provide more specific filtering criteria. There is no pagination.

To configure, select Trigger overview as type:

You may set the following specific options:

URL

This widget displays the content retrieved from the specified URL.

To configure, select URL as type:

You may set the following specific options:

Web monitoring

This widget displays a status summary of the active web monitoring scenarios.

You may set the following specific options: