Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Creating triggers

Now that we have an item successfully gathering data, we can look at it and verify whether it is reporting as expected (in our case, that the system is not overloaded). Sitting and staring at a single parameter would make for a very boring job. Doing that with thousands of parameters doesn't sound too entertaining, so we are going to create a trigger. In Zabbix, a trigger is an entry containing an expression to automatically recognize problems with monitored items.

An item alone does nothing more than collect data. To define thresholds and things that are considered a problem, we have to use triggers.

Navigate to Configuration | Hosts, click on Triggers (next to A test host), and click on Create trigger.

Here, only two fields ...