Zabbix data source

The Zabbix data source connects Grafana to your Zabbix monitoring infrastructure. You can query metrics, display problems and triggers, monitor IT service SLA data, create annotations from Zabbix events, and build interactive dashboards with template variables. The plugin also supports querying historical data directly from the Zabbix database for improved performance on large time ranges.

Requirements

Grafana 11.6.0 or later.
The Zabbix plugin installed in your Grafana instance. You can install it from Administration > Plugins and data > Plugins, or refer to Install Grafana plugins for other methods.
A running Zabbix server with API access enabled.
A Zabbix user account with read permissions for the host groups and hosts you want to query.

Supported features

Feature	Supported
Metrics	Yes
Alerting	Yes
Annotations	Yes
Template variables	Yes
Problems panel	Yes
Direct DB Connection	Yes

Get started

The following pages help you set up and use the Zabbix data source:

Feature highlights

After configuring the data source, you can:

Query multiple metrics using regex to select items across hosts and groups.
Apply processing functions such as groupBy, scale, delta, rate, movingAverage, and percentile to transform and aggregate data.
Create template variables to build dynamic, reusable dashboards that switch between host groups, hosts, and items.
Display Zabbix problems using the Problems panel to monitor active triggers.
Annotate graphs with Zabbix events filtered by severity and acknowledgment status.
Use Direct DB Connection to query history data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, or InfluxDB for faster performance on wide time ranges.
Use Explore to query Zabbix data without building a dashboard.
Set up alerting rules based on Zabbix data.

Pre-built dashboards

The plugin includes three pre-built dashboards that you can import from the data source configuration page:

Zabbix System Status: Overview of active problems and system health.
Zabbix Template Linux Server: Linux server monitoring with CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics.
Zabbix Server Dashboard: Zabbix server performance and internal metrics.

To import a dashboard, navigate to Connections > Data sources, select your Zabbix data source, and click the Dashboards tab.

Plugin updates

Always ensure that your plugin version is up-to-date so you have access to all current features and improvements. Navigate to Administration > Plugins and data > Plugins to check for updates.