Learn about the Zabbix Integration.
This page provides an overview of what you can do with the Zabbix integration. The documentation pages only for a limited number of integrations contain the setup steps and instructions. If you do not see the setup steps here, navigate to the Operations for Applications GUI. The detailed instructions for setting up and configuring all integrations, including the Zabbix integration are on the Setup tab of the integration.
- Log in to your Operations for Applications instance.
- Click Integrations on the toolbar, search for and click the Zabbix tile.
- Click the Setup tab and you will see the most recent and up-to-date instructions.
Zabbix Integration
Wavefront provides a data adapter for Zabbix that allows you to easily send data to Tanzu Observability. If you are already using Zabbix for monitoring, then you can use our adapter to send the same metrics to Tanzu Observability without any configuration changes to your existing Zabbix environment. The Zabbix Database Adapter polls your Zabbix database at a configurable interval and sends new metrics to Tanzu Observability.
In addition to setting up the metrics flow, this integration also installs a dashboard. Here’s a screenshot of the dashboard displaying Zabbix metrics.
Metrics
| Metric Name | Description |
|---|---|
| zabbix.agent.ping | Zabbix agent ping shown as a unit. |
| zabbix.kernel.maxfiles | Maximum number of opened files supported by OS. |
| zabbix.kernel.maxproc | Maximum number of processes supported by OS. |
| zabbix.net.if.in.ens160 | Incoming traffic statistics on network interface. |
| zabbix.net.if.out.ens160 | Outgoing traffic statistics on network interface. |
| zabbix.preprocessing_queue | Zabbix preprocessing queue. |
| zabbix.proc.num | Number of processes. |
| zabbix.proc.num.run | Number of running processes. |
| zabbix.process.alert.manager.avg.busy | Average percentage of time alert manager processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.alerter.avg.busy | Average percentage of time alerter processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.configuration.syncer.avg.busy | Average percentage of time configuration syncer processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.discoverer.avg.busy | Average percentage of time discoverer processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.escalator.avg.busy | Average percentage of time escalator processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.history.syncer.avg.busy | Average percentage of time history syncer processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.housekeeper.avg.busy | Average percentage of time housekeeper processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.http.poller.avg.busy | Average percentage of time http poller processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.icmp.pinger.avg.busy | Average percentage of time icmp pinger processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.poller.avg.busy | Average percentage of time poller processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.preprocessing.manager.avg.busy | Average percentage of time preprocessing manager processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.preprocessing.worker.avg.busy | Average percentage of time preprocessing worker processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.proxy.poller.avg.busy | Average percentage of time proxy poller processes have been busy in the last minute |
| zabbix.process.self-monitoring.avg.busy | Average percentage of time self-monitoring processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.task.manager.avg.busy | Average percentage of time task manager processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.timer.avg.busy | Average percentage of time timer processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.trapper.avg.busy | Average percentage of time trapper processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.process.unreachable.poller.avg.busy | Average percentage of time unreachable poller processes have been busy in the last minute. |
| zabbix.queue | Number of monitored items in the queue which are delayed at least by 6 seconds. |
| zabbix.queue.10m | Number of monitored items in the queue which are delayed at least by 10 minutes. |
| zabbix.rcache.buffer.pused | Availability statistics of Zabbix configuration cache. Percentage of used buffer. |
| zabbix.system.boottime | System boot time. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.intr | Device interrupts per second. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.load.percpu.avg1 | Average CPU load per 1m. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.load.percpu.avg15 | Average CPU load per 15m. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.load.percpu.avg5 | Average CPU load per 5m. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.switches | Context switches per second. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.guest | Guest time (time spent running a virtual CPU for a guest operating system). |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.guest_nice | Time spent running a niced guest (virtual CPU for guest operating systems under the control of the Linux kernel). |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.idle | The time the CPU has spent doing nothing. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.interrupt | The amount of time the CPU has been servicing hardware interrupts. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.iowait | The amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.nice | The time the CPU has spent running users’ processes that have been niced. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.softirq | The amount of time the CPU has been servicing software interrupts. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.steal | The amount of CPU ‘stolen’ from this virtual machine by the hypervisor for other tasks (such as running another virtual machine). |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.system | The time the CPU has spent running the kernel and its processes. |
| zabbix.system.cpu.util.user | The time the CPU has spent running users’ processes that are not niced. |
| zabbix.system.localtime | System local time of the host. |
| zabbix.system.swap.size.free | The free space of swap volume/file in bytes. |
| zabbix.system.swap.size.pfree | The free space of swap volume/file in percent. |
| zabbix.system.swap.size.total | The total space of swap volume/file in bytes. |
| zabbix.system.uptime | System uptime in N days, hh:mm:ss format. |
| zabbix.system.users.num | Number of users who are currently logged in. |
| zabbix.vcache.buffer.pused | Percentage of free buffer value cache. |
| zabbix.vcache.cache.hits | Number of value cache hits. |
| zabbix.vcache.cache.misses | Number of value cache misses. |
| zabbix.vcache.cache.mode | Value cache operating mode. |
| zabbix.vfs.file.cksum.etc.passwd | Checksum of /etc/passwd. |
| zabbix.vfs.fs.inode.pfree | Percentage of free filesystem inodes. |
| zabbix.vfs.fs.size.free | Free filesystem storage. |
| zabbix.vfs.fs.size.pfree | Percentage of free filesystem storage. |
| zabbix.vfs.fs.size.total | Total size of the filesystem storage. |
| zabbix.vfs.fs.size.used | Used filesystem storage. |
| zabbix.vm.memory.size.available | Available memory. In Linux, available = free + buffers + cache. On other platforms calculation may vary. |
| zabbix.vm.memory.size.total | Total memory in Bytes. |
| zabbix.wcache.history.pused | Percentage of used history buffer. |
| zabbix.wcache.index.pused | Percentage of used history index buffer. |
| zabbix.wcache.trend.pused | Percentage of used trend buffer. |
| zabbix.wcache.values | Total number of values processed by Zabbix server or Zabbix proxy, except unsupported items. |
| zabbix.wcache.values.float | Number of processed float values. |
| zabbix.wcache.values.log | Number of processed log values. |
| zabbix.wcache.values.not.supported | Number of times item processing resulted in item becoming unsupported or keeping that state. |
| zabbix.wcache.values.str | Number of processed character/string values. |
| zabbix.wcache.values.text | Number of processed text values. |
| zabbix.wcache.values.uint | Number of processed unsigned integer values. |