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1 Manual structure
2 What is Zabbix
3 Zabbix features
4 Zabbix overview
5 What's new in Zabbix 7.4.0
2 Definitions
1 High availability
2 Agent
3 Agent 2
4 Proxy
1 Setup from sources
2 Setup from RHEL packages
3 Setup from Debian/Ubuntu packages
6 Sender
7 Get
8 JS
9 Web service
1 Getting Zabbix
1 PostgreSQL plugin dependencies
2 MongoDB plugin dependencies
1 Building Zabbix agent on Windows
2 Building Zabbix agent 2 on Windows
3 Building Zabbix agent on macOS
1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives
2 Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian
3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 Windows agent installation from MSI
5 Mac OS agent installation from PKG
6 Unstable releases
5 Installation from containers
6 Web interface installation
1 Upgrade from sources
1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 Debian/Ubuntu
3 Upgrade from containers
1 Compilation issues
9 Template changes
10 Upgrade notes for 7.4.0
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 Preprocessing testing
2 Preprocessing details
3 Preprocessing examples
1 Escaping special characters from LLD macro values in JSONPath
1 Additional JavaScript objects
2 Browser item JavaScript objects
6 CSV to JSON preprocessing
1 Zabbix agent 2
2 Windows Zabbix agent
1 Dynamic indexes
2 Special OIDs
3 MIB files
3 SNMP traps
4 IPMI checks
1 VMware monitoring item keys
6 Log file monitoring
1 Aggregate calculations
8 Internal checks
9 SSH checks
10 Telnet checks
11 External checks
12 Trapper items
13 JMX monitoring
14 ODBC monitoring
15 Dependent items
16 HTTP agent
17 Prometheus checks
18 Script items
19 Browser items
4 History and trends
1 Extending Zabbix agents
6 Windows performance counters
7 Mass update
8 Value mapping
9 Queue
10 Value cache
11 Execute now
12 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
1 Trigger-based event correlation
2 Global event correlation
6 Tagging
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
3 Dashboards
1 Configuring a template
2 Linking/unlinking
3 Nesting
4 Mass update
1 Zabbix agent template operation
2 Zabbix agent 2 template operation
3 HTTP template operation
4 IPMI template operation
5 JMX template operation
6 ODBC template operation
7 Standardized templates for network devices
8 VMware template operation
1 Email
2 SMS
3 Custom alert scripts
1 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 Secret user macros
5 Low-level discovery macros
6 Expression macros
1 Configuring a user
2 Permissions
3 User groups
1 CyberArk configuration
2 HashiCorp configuration
14 Scheduled reports
1 Export to files
2 Streaming to external systems
3 SNMP gateway
1 Service tree
2 SLA
3 Setup example
1 Web monitoring items
2 Real-life scenario
1 VMware monitoring item keys
2 Virtual machine discovery key fields
3 JSON examples for VMware items
4 VMware monitoring setup example
11 Maintenance
12 Regular expressions
1 Problem suppression
1 Template groups
2 Host groups
3 Templates
4 Hosts
5 Network maps
6 Media types
1 Configuring a network discovery rule
2 Active agent autoregistration
1 Item prototypes
2 Trigger prototypes
3 Graph prototypes
4 Host prototypes
5 Notes on low-level discovery
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 SNMP OIDs (legacy)
6 Discovery of JMX objects
7 Discovery of IPMI sensors
8 Discovery of systemd services
9 Discovery of Windows services
10 Discovery of Windows performance counter instances
11 Discovery using WMI queries
12 Discovery using ODBC SQL queries
13 Discovery using Prometheus data
14 Discovery of block devices
15 Discovery of host interfaces in Zabbix
7 Custom LLD rules
1 Synchronization of monitoring configuration
2 Proxy load balancing and high availability
1 Using certificates
2 Using pre-shared keys
1 Connection type or permission problems
2 Certificate problems
3 PSK problems
1 Event menu
2 Host menu
3 Item menu
1 Action log
2 Clock
3 Discovery status
4 Favorite graphs
5 Favorite maps
6 Gauge
7 Geomap
8 Graph
9 Graph (classic)
10 Graph prototype
11 Honeycomb
12 Host availability
13 Host card
14 Host navigator
15 Item history
16 Item navigator
17 Item value
18 Map
19 Map navigation tree
20 Pie chart
21 Problem hosts
22 Problems
23 Problems by severity
24 SLA report
25 System information
26 Top hosts
27 Top items
28 Top triggers
29 Trigger overview
30 URL
31 Web monitoring
1 Cause and symptom problems
1 Graphs
2 Host dashboards
3 Web scenarios
3 Latest data
4 Maps
5 Discovery
1 Services
2 SLA
3 SLA report
1 Overview
2 Hosts
1 System information
2 Scheduled reports
3 Availability report
4 Top 100 triggers
5 Audit log
6 Action log
7 Notifications
1 Template groups
2 Host groups
1 Items
2 Triggers
3 Graphs
1 Item prototypes
2 Trigger prototypes
3 Graph prototypes
4 Host prototypes
5 Web scenarios
1 Items
2 Triggers
3 Graphs
1 Item prototypes
2 Trigger prototypes
3 Graph prototypes
4 Host prototypes
5 Web scenarios
5 Maintenance
6 Event correlation
7 Discovery
1 Actions
2 Media types
3 Scripts
1 User groups
2 User roles
3 Users
4 API tokens
1 HTTP
2 LDAP
3 SAML
4 MFA
1 General
2 Audit log
3 Housekeeping
4 Proxies
5 Proxy groups
6 Macros
7 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
11 Time zones
12 Resetting password
13 Time period selector
1 Securing MySQL/MariaDB
2 Securing PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB
2 Cryptography
3 Web server
2 Configuration best practices
Action object
action.create
action.delete
action.get
action.update
Alert object
alert.get
apiinfo.version
Audit log object
auditlog.get
Authentication object
authentication.get
authentication.update
Autoregistration object
autoregistration.get
autoregistration.update
configuration.export
configuration.import
configuration.importcompare
Connector object
connector.create
connector.delete
connector.get
connector.update
Correlation object
correlation.create
correlation.delete
correlation.get
correlation.update
Dashboard object
dashboard.create
dashboard.delete
dashboard.get
dashboard.update
1 Action log
2 Clock
3 Discovery status
4 Favorite graphs
5 Favorite maps
6 Gauge
7 Geomap
8 Graph
9 Graph (classic)
10 Graph prototype
11 Honeycomb
12 Host availability
13 Host card
14 Host navigator
15 Item history
16 Item navigator
17 Item value
18 Map
19 Map navigation tree
20 Pie chart
21 Problem hosts
22 Problems
23 Problems by severity
24 SLA report
25 System information
26 Top hosts
27 Top items
28 Top triggers
29 Trigger overview
30 URL
31 Web monitoring
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
High availability node object
hanode.get
History object
history.clear
history.get
history.push
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.propagate
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
Housekeeping object
housekeeping.get
housekeeping.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.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
MFA object
mfa.create
mfa.delete
mfa.get
mfa.update
Module object
module.create
module.delete
module.get
module.update
Problem object
problem.get
Proxy object
proxy.create
proxy.delete
proxy.get
proxy.update
Proxy group object
proxygroup.create
proxygroup.delete
proxygroup.get
proxygroup.update
Regular expression object
regexp.create
regexp.delete
regexp.get
regexp.update
Report object
report.create
report.delete
report.get
report.update
Role object
role.create
role.delete
role.get
role.update
Script object
script.create
script.delete
script.execute
script.get
script.getscriptsbyevents
script.getscriptsbyhosts
script.update
Service object
service.create
service.delete
service.get
service.update
Settings object
settings.get
settings.update
SLA object
sla.create
sla.delete
sla.get
sla.getsli
sla.update
Task object
task.create
task.get
Template object
template.create
template.delete
template.get
template.massadd
template.massremove
template.massupdate
template.update
Template dashboard object
templatedashboard.create
templatedashboard.delete
templatedashboard.get
templatedashboard.update
Template group object
templategroup.create
templategroup.delete
templategroup.get
templategroup.massadd
templategroup.massremove
templategroup.massupdate
templategroup.propagate
templategroup.update
Token object
token.create
token.delete
token.generate
token.get
token.update
Trend object
trend.get
Trigger object
trigger.create
trigger.delete
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.provision
user.resettotp
user.unblock
user.update
User directory object
userdirectory.create
userdirectory.delete
userdirectory.get
userdirectory.test
userdirectory.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 7.2 to 7.4
1 Loadable modules
1 Building loadable plugins
3 Frontend modules
1 Database creation
2 Repairing Zabbix database character set and collation
3 Database upgrade to primary keys
4 Preparing auditlog table for partitioning
1 MySQL encryption configuration
2 PostgreSQL encryption configuration
6 TimescaleDB setup
7 Elasticsearch setup
8 Distribution-specific notes on setting up Nginx for Zabbix
9 Running agent as root
10 Zabbix agent on Microsoft Windows
11 SAML setup with Microsoft Entra ID
12 SAML setup with Okta
13 SAML setup with OneLogin
14 Setting up scheduled reports
15 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)
1 Ceph plugin
2 Docker plugin
3 Ember+ plugin
4 Memcached plugin
5 Modbus plugin
6 MongoDB plugin
7 MQTT plugin
8 MSSQL plugin
9 MySQL plugin
10 Oracle plugin
11 PostgreSQL plugin
12 Redis plugin
13 Smart plugin
8 Zabbix Java gateway
9 Zabbix web service
10 Environment variables
11 Inclusion
1 Server-proxy data exchange protocol
2 Zabbix agent/agent2 protocol
4 Zabbix agent 2 plugin protocol
5 Zabbix sender protocol
6 Header
7 Newline-delimited JSON export protocol
1 vm.memory.size parameters
2 Passive and active agent checks
3 Minimum permission level for Windows agent items
4 Encoding of returned values
5 Large file support
6 Sensor
7 Notes on memtype parameter in proc.mem items
8 Notes on selecting processes in proc.mem and proc.num items
9 Implementation details of net.tcp.service and net.udp.service checks
10 proc.get parameters
11 Unreachable/unavailable host interface settings
12 Remote monitoring of Zabbix stats
13 Configuring Kerberos with Zabbix
14 modbus.get parameters
15 Creating custom performance counter names for VMware
16 Return values for system.sw.packages.get
17 Return values for net.dns.get
1 Foreach functions
2 Bitwise functions
3 Date and time functions
4 History functions
5 Trend functions
6 Mathematical functions
7 Operator functions
8 Predictive functions
9 String functions
1 Supported macros
2 User macros supported by location
7 Unit symbols
8 Time period syntax
9 Command execution
10 Version compatibility
11 Database error handling
12 Zabbix sender dynamic link library for Windows
13 Python library for Zabbix API
14 Service monitoring upgrade
15 Other issues
16 Agent vs agent 2 comparison
17 Escaping examples
1 Monitor Linux with Zabbix agent
2 Monitor Windows with Zabbix agent
3 Monitor Apache via HTTP
4 Monitor MySQL with Zabbix agent 2
5 Monitor VMware with Zabbix
6 Monitor network traffic with Zabbix
7 Monitor network traffic using active checks
8 Monitor websites with Browser items
manifest.json
Actions
Views
Assets
Register a new module
Configuration
Presentation
Create a module (tutorial)
Create a widget (tutorial)
Examples
Examples
Create a plugin (tutorial)
Plugin interfaces
Changes to extension development
zabbix_agent2
zabbix_agentd
zabbix_get
zabbix_js
zabbix_proxy
zabbix_sender
zabbix_server
zabbix_web_service
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11 Database error handling

If Zabbix detects that the backend database is not accessible, it will send a notification message and continue the attempts to connect to the database. For some database engines, specific error codes are recognized.

MySQL

  • CR_CONN_HOST_ERROR
  • CR_SERVER_GONE_ERROR
  • CR_CONNECTION_ERROR
  • CR_SERVER_LOST
  • CR_UNKNOWN_HOST
  • ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN
  • ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR
  • ER_ILLEGAL_GRANT_FOR_TABLE
  • ER_TABLEACCESS_DENIED_ERROR
  • ER_UNKNOWN_ERROR
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