Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Method 2 – internal proxy buffer item

We can turn to Zabbix internal items to figure out how large the proxy buffer is—that is, how many values it has to send to the Zabbix server:

1. Let's go to Configuration | Hosts, click on Items next to Another host, and click on Create item. Fill in the following values:

• • Name: First proxy: buffer size
  • Type: Zabbix internal
  • Key: zabbix[proxy_history]

This item must be created on a host, monitored through the proxy for which the buffer size should be monitored. If assigned to a host and monitored by the Zabbix server, this item will become unsupported.

2. When done, click on the Add button at the bottom.

With the default proxy configuration update interval of one hour, it might take quite some time ...