Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Positional parameters for item names

While we're working with items, let's explore some more tricks:

1. Go to Configuration | Hosts
2. Click on Items next to Another host
3. Click on Incoming traffic on interface enp0s8 (or whatever interface you have) in the Name column

4. In the item-editing form, click on the Clone button at the bottom
5. In the new form, modify the Key field so that it reads net.if.in[lo]
6. Click on the Add button at the bottom

You might notice it right away, or go to Monitoring | Latest data and look at the list. Despite the fact that we only modified the key, the item name was updated accordingly as well:

That's what the $1 part ...