Templating dashboards to work at the host level
When Zabbix removed the screens functionality and replaced it with dashboards completely, a lot of people in the Zabbix community got very excited about using the newer widgets on their host-level dashboards. Unfortunately, development time is limited and at the time of writing, the feature is limited to only six widgets.
In Zabbix 7.0, this all changes. All the widgets available on your global dashboards are now available on host-level dashboards, making the whole feature incredibly useful.
Getting ready
Make sure you followed the first two recipes in this chapter and that you have your Zabbix server ready. We’ll be using our SNMP-monitored host from the first two recipes, as well as our item, triggers, and map.
Alternatively, anyone can create host-level dashboards, so long as they have some data available on a host that has a template assigned. As such, feel free to apply your own datasets instead.
