Working through Zabbix reporting

Zabbix reporting got some well-deserved love from Zabbix development, especially concerning getting reports out of the system and improving the audit log. First, let’s take a look at some powerful features to show you exactly what’s going on with your statistics right from the Zabbix frontend. Then, in the next recipe, we’ll take a look at how to create automatic PDF reports, a new and much-anticipated feature.

Getting ready

For this recipe, all you’ll need is the Zabbix frontend and a monitored host. I’ll be using the SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipes.

How to do it…

There isn’t anything to configure really as reporting is present in Zabbix from the start. So, let’s dive into what each page of reporting offers us.

System information

If you navigate to Reports | System information, you will find the following table:

Figure 6.68 – Reports...