Let's try to monitor another Zabbix internal item:
- Go to Configuration | Hosts, click on Items next to A test host, and then click on Create item. Let's monitor the uptime of the Zabbix server—not the whole system, but the Zabbix server daemon. Fill in these values:
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- Name: Zabbix server uptime
- Type: Zabbix internal
- Key: zabbix[uptime]
- Units: uptime
- When done, click on Add at the bottom and then check this item in the Latest data page.
Notice how our use of the uptime unit resulted in the raw uptime value in seconds being converted into a human-readable format that shows how long the Zabbix server process has been running for:
We could display this item on a screen and have a trigger on it to let us know when the Zabbix server was restarted.