In this recipe, we will show you how to create reports in Zabbix. Zabbix provides us with some predefined reports, but we can also create our own reports.
For this, we need a Zabbix setup properly configured with the Zabbix super administration account.
Distribution of values for multiple periods
offers a possibility to simply compare item values side by side.Distribution of values for multiple items
offers a possibility to compare the values of one or several items in custom periods.Compare values for multiple periods
bar report offers a possibility to compare the values of one item for different hosts / predefined intervals (Hourly
/ Daily
/ Weekly
/ Monthly
/ Yearly
).Weekly
, Hourly
, or Daily
basis.Weekly
, Monthly
, Yearly
, and so on basis.One of the limitations in Zabbix is that when we create reports, they will be created on the fly but there is no option to save them. In big setups creating reports on the fly can be database-intensive. The STATUS OF ZABBIX is exactly the same as the status on the front page of Zabbix that is only available for the super administrator accounts.
In the reports menu, we have a few options in Zabbix. First, we have the STATUS OF ZABBIX that shows us exactly what the super administrator sees on the front page of Zabbix. Next we have the Availability report and the Triggers top 100 report where we make use of host
or hostgroup
and time to see some information from our items.
The option Bar reports gives us a more flexible way to visualize our data and gives us also the possibility to scale our data based on certain periods.