Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Automatically creating graphs

We have items and triggers automatically created for all interfaces, and we could also have a graph created for each interface, combining incoming and outgoing traffic.

In the same way as before, this is done with the help of prototypes:

1. Go to Configuration | Templates, click on Discovery next to C_Template_Linux, and then click on Graph prototypes. Click on Create graph prototype and enter Traffic on {#IFNAME} in the Name field.
2. Click on Add prototype in the Items section, and mark the checkboxes next to the incoming and outgoing network traffic items. Then, click on Select. Choose Gradient line for both items in the Draw style drop-down:

3. When done, click on the Add button at the bottom. Note that we had ...