Working with Triggers and Alerts

Now, what use would all of that collected data in Zabbix be without actually doing some alerting with it? Of course, we can use Zabbix to collect our data and just go over it manually, but Zabbix gets a lot more useful when we actually start sending out notifications to users. This way, we don’t have to always keep an eye on our Zabbix frontend, but we can just let our triggers and alerts do the work for us, redirecting us to the frontend only when we need it.

In Zabbix 7, you will find a new trigger expressions syntax compared to Zabbix 5. This syntax has been available since Zabbix 5.4, so if you skipped some versions, this might be the first time you’re working with it. If you’ve been working with a Zabbix version before version 5.4, keep in mind that you might need to get used to this new syntax. If you have Zabbix 5.4 or higher running already, the syntax will be the same in Zabbix 7.

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