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event.get
Description
integer/array event.get(object parameters)
The method allows to retrieve events according to the given parameters.
This method may return events of a deleted entity if these events have not been removed by the housekeeper yet.
This method is available to users of any type. Permissions to call the method can be revoked in user role settings. See User roles for more information.
Parameters
(object) Parameters defining the desired output.
The method supports the following parameters.
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| eventids | ID/array | Return only events with the given IDs. |
| groupids | ID/array | Return only events created by objects that belong to the given host groups. |
| hostids | ID/array | Return only events created by objects that belong to the given hosts. |
| objectids | ID/array | Return only events created by the given objects. |
| source | integer | Return only events with the given type. Refer to the event object page for a list of supported event types. Default: 0 - trigger events. |
| object | integer | Return only events created by objects of the given type. Refer to the event object page for a list of supported object types. Default: 0 - trigger. |
| acknowledged | boolean | If set to true return only acknowledged events. |
| action | integer | Return only events for which the given event update actions have been performed. For multiple actions, use a sum of any acceptable bitmap values as bitmask (for example, 34 for acknowledge and suppress event). |
| action_userids | ID/array | Return only events with the given IDs of users who performed the event update actions. |
| suppressed | boolean | true - return only suppressed events;false - return events in the normal state. |
| symptom | boolean | true - return only symptom events;false - return only cause events. |
| severities | integer/array | Return only events with the given event severities. Applies only if object is trigger. |
| trigger_severities | integer/array | Return only events with the given trigger severities. Applies only if object is trigger. |
| evaltype | integer | Rules for tag searching. Possible values: 0 - (default) And/Or; 2 - Or. |
| tags | array | Return only events with the given tags. Exact match by tag and case-insensitive search by value and operator. Format: [{"tag": "<tag>", "value": "<value>", "operator": "<operator>"}, ...].An empty array returns all events. Possible operator types: 0 - (default) Like; 1 - Equal; 2 - Not like; 3 - Not equal 4 - Exists; 5 - Not exists. |
| eventid_from | string | Return only events with IDs greater or equal to the given ID. |
| eventid_till | string | Return only events with IDs less or equal to the given ID. |
| time_from | timestamp | Return only events that have been created after or at the given time. |
| time_till | timestamp | Return only events that have been created before or at the given time. |
| problem_time_from | timestamp | Returns only events that were in the problem state starting with problem_time_from. Applies only if the source is trigger event and object is trigger. Mandatory if problem_time_till is specified. |
| problem_time_till | timestamp | Returns only events that were in the problem state until problem_time_till. Applies only if the source is trigger event and object is trigger. Mandatory if problem_time_from is specified. |
| value | integer/array | Return only events with the given values. |
| selectAcknowledges | query | Return an acknowledges property with event updates. Event updates are sorted in reverse chronological order.The event update object has the following properties: acknowledgeid - (ID) acknowledgment's ID;userid - (ID) ID of the user that updated the event;clock - (timestamp) time when the event was updated;message - (string) text of the message;action - (integer) update action that was performed, see event.acknowledge;old_severity - (integer) event severity before this update action;new_severity - (integer) event severity after this update action;suppress_until - (timestamp) time till event will be suppressed;taskid - (ID) ID of task if current event is undergoing a rank change;username - (string) username of the user that updated the event;name - (string) name of the user that updated the event;surname - (string) surname of the user that updated the event.Supports count. |
| selectAlerts | query | Return an alerts property with alerts generated by the event. Alerts are sorted in reverse chronological order. |
| selectHosts | query | Return a hosts property with hosts containing the object that created the event. Supported only for events generated by triggers, items or LLD rules. |
| selectRelatedObject | query | Return a relatedObject property with the object that created the event. The type of object returned depends on the event type. |
| selectSuppressionData | query | Return a suppression_data property with the list of active maintenances and manual suppressions:maintenanceid - (ID) ID of the maintenance;userid - (ID) ID of user who suppressed the event;suppress_until - (integer) time until the event is suppressed. |
| selectTags | query | Return a tags property with event tags. |
| filter | object | Return only those results that exactly match the given filter. Accepts an object, where the keys are property names, and the values are either a single value or an array of values to match against. Does not support properties of text data type. |
| sortfield | string/array | Sort the result by the given properties. Possible values: eventid, objectid, clock.Possible values when used together with groupBy: objectid.Possible values when used together with countOutput and groupBy: objectid, rowscount. |
| groupBy | string/array | Group the results by the given properties. The specified properties will be returned in the results. Possible values: objectid. |
| countOutput | boolean | These parameters being common for all get methods are described in detail in the reference commentary page. |
| editable | boolean | |
| excludeSearch | boolean | |
| limit | integer | |
| output | query | |
| preservekeys | boolean | |
| search | object | |
| searchByAny | boolean | |
| searchWildcardsEnabled | boolean | |
| sortorder | string/array | |
| startSearch | boolean | |
| select_acknowledges (deprecated) |
query | This parameter is deprecated, please use selectAcknowledges instead.Return an acknowledges property with event updates.Event updates are sorted in reverse chronological order. The event update object has the following properties: acknowledgeid - (ID) acknowledgment's ID;userid - (ID) ID of the user that updated the event;clock - (timestamp) time when the event was updated;message - (string) text of the message;action - (integer) update action that was performed, see event.acknowledge;old_severity - (integer) event severity before this update action;new_severity - (integer) event severity after this update action;suppress_until - (timestamp) time till event will be suppressed;taskid - (ID) ID of task if current event is undergoing a rank change;username - (string) username of the user that updated the event;name - (string) name of the user that updated the event;surname - (string) surname of the user that updated the event.Supports count. |
| select_alerts (deprecated) |
query | This parameter is deprecated, please use selectAlerts instead.Return an alerts property with alerts generated by the event.Alerts are sorted in reverse chronological order. |
Return values
(integer/array) Returns either:
- an array of objects;
- the count of retrieved objects, if the
countOutputparameter has been used, but thegroupByparameter has not been used; - an array of objects with aggregation results, if the
groupByparameter has been used.
Examples
Retrieving trigger events
Retrieve the latest events from trigger "22395".
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "event.get",
"params": {
"output": "extend",
"selectAcknowledges": "extend",
"selectSuppressionData": "extend",
"selectTags": "extend",
"objectids": "22395",
"sortfield": ["clock", "eventid"],
"sortorder": "DESC"
},
"id": 1
}Response:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"eventid": "20",
"source": "0",
"object": "0",
"objectid": "22395",
"clock": "1728658089",
"value": "0",
"acknowledged": "0",
"ns": "461809482",
"name": "Load average is too high (per CPU load over 1.5 for 5m)",
"severity": "0",
"r_eventid": "0",
"c_eventid": "0",
"correlationid": "0",
"userid": "0",
"cause_eventid": "0",
"acknowledges": [],
"opdata": "Load averages(1m 5m 15m): (1.6328 3.0522 2.2515), # of CPUs: 2",
"suppression_data": [],
"suppressed": "0",
"tags": [
{
"tag": "scope",
"value": "capacity"
},
{
"tag": "scope",
"value": "performance"
},
{
"tag": "component",
"value": "cpu"
},
{
"tag": "class",
"value": "os"
},
{
"tag": "target",
"value": "linux"
}
],
"urls": []
},
{
"eventid": "4",
"source": "0",
"object": "0",
"objectid": "22395",
"clock": "1728657737",
"value": "1",
"acknowledged": "1",
"ns": "460759366",
"name": "Load average is too high (per CPU load over 1.5 for 5m)",
"severity": "3",
"r_eventid": "20",
"c_eventid": "0",
"correlationid": "0",
"userid": "0",
"cause_eventid": "0",
"acknowledges": [
{
"acknowledgeid": "1",
"userid": "1",
"clock": "1728657938",
"message": "Testing environment. Please disregard this alert.",
"action": "38",
"old_severity": "0",
"new_severity": "0",
"suppress_until": "1728744338",
"taskid": "0",
"username": "Admin",
"name": "Zabbix",
"surname": "Administrator"
}
],
"opdata": "Load averages(1m 5m 15m): (1.6328 3.0522 2.2515), # of CPUs: 2",
"suppression_data": [
{
"maintenanceid": "0",
"suppress_until": "1728744338",
"userid": "1"
}
],
"suppressed": "1",
"tags": [
{
"tag": "scope",
"value": "capacity"
},
{
"tag": "scope",
"value": "performance"
},
{
"tag": "component",
"value": "cpu"
},
{
"tag": "class",
"value": "os"
},
{
"tag": "target",
"value": "linux"
}
],
"urls": []
}
],
"id": 1
}Retrieving events by time period
Retrieve all events that have been created between October 9 and 10, 2012, in reverse chronological order.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "event.get",
"params": {
"output": "extend",
"time_from": "1349797228",
"time_till": "1350661228",
"sortfield": ["clock", "eventid"],
"sortorder": "desc"
},
"id": 1
}Response:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"eventid": "20616",
"source": "0",
"object": "0",
"objectid": "14282",
"clock": "1350477814",
"value": "1",
"acknowledged": "0",
"ns": "0",
"name": "Less than 25% free in the history cache",
"severity": "3",
"r_eventid": "0",
"c_eventid": "0",
"correlationid": "0",
"userid": "0",
"cause_eventid": "0",
"opdata": "",
"suppressed": "0",
"urls": []
},
{
"eventid": "20617",
"source": "0",
"object": "0",
"objectid": "14283",
"clock": "1350477814",
"value": "0",
"acknowledged": "0",
"ns": "0",
"name": "Zabbix trapper processes more than 75% busy",
"severity": "3",
"r_eventid": "0",
"c_eventid": "0",
"correlationid": "0",
"userid": "0",
"cause_eventid": "0",
"opdata": "",
"suppressed": "0",
"urls": []
},
{
"eventid": "20618",
"source": "0",
"object": "0",
"objectid": "14284",
"clock": "1350477815",
"value": "1",
"acknowledged": "0",
"ns": "0",
"name": "High ICMP ping loss",
"severity": "3",
"r_eventid": "0",
"c_eventid": "0",
"correlationid": "0",
"userid": "0",
"cause_eventid": "0",
"opdata": "",
"suppressed": "0",
"urls": []
}
],
"id": 1
}Retrieving events acknowledged by specified user
Retrieving events acknowledged by user with ID=10
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "event.get",
"params": {
"output": "extend",
"action": 2,
"action_userids": [10],
"selectAcknowledges": ["userid", "action"],
"sortfield": ["eventid"],
"sortorder": "DESC"
},
"id": 1
}Response:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"eventid": "1248566",
"source": "0",
"object": "0",
"objectid": "15142",
"clock": "1472457242",
"ns": "209442442",
"r_eventid": "1245468",
"r_clock": "1472457285",
"r_ns": "125644870",
"correlationid": "0",
"userid": "10",
"name": "Zabbix agent on localhost is unreachable for 5 minutes",
"acknowledged": "1",
"severity": "3",
"cause_eventid": "0",
"acknowledges": [
{
"userid": "10",
"action": "2"
}
],
"opdata": "",
"suppressed": "0",
"urls": []
}
],
"id": 1
}Retrieving top triggers with problem event count
Retrieve the top 5 triggers that have severities "Warning", "Average", "High", or "Disaster", together with the number of problem events within a specified time period.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "event.get",
"params": {
"countOutput": true,
"groupBy": "objectid",
"source": 0,
"object": 0,
"value": 1,
"time_from": 1672531200,
"time_till": 1677628800,
"trigger_severities": [2, 3, 4, 5],
"sortfield": ["rowscount"],
"sortorder": "DESC",
"limit": 5
},
"id": 1
}Response:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"objectid": "232124",
"rowscount": "27"
},
{
"objectid": "29055",
"rowscount": "23"
},
{
"objectid": "253731",
"rowscount": "18"
},
{
"objectid": "254062",
"rowscount": "11"
},
{
"objectid": "23216",
"rowscount": "7"
}
],
"id": 1
}See also
Source
CEvent::get() in ui/include/classes/api/services/CEvent.php.