Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Displaying data using a graph

Zabbix comes with an excellent graphing ability out of the box, without any manual configuration. As soon as data is pulled from a resource, the graphing utility starts plotting using the raw data. Almost all the built-in templates in Zabbix have some graphing items predefined. We can get graphs of monitored items by navigating to Monitoring | Graphs in the Zabbix GUI. The following screenshot shows the graph of the CPU load over a period of 15 minutes for a host:

 

We can also create our own graph items, through a few clicks, for any host or device being monitored. For example, let's create a graph to visualize ...