Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Checking for missing data

Some items are always expected to provide values, such as the CPU load item. The problem condition for this item is usually value too large. But there are some items that are different, for example, an item with the agent.ping key. This item only tells us whether the agent is available to the server, and it only returns 1 when the agent is up. And yes, that's it—it does not send 0 when the agent is down; there is no value at all. We can't write a trigger with the last() function, as the last value is always 1. The same goes for min(), max(), and avg(). Luckily, there is a function we can use in this case: nodata(). It allows the trigger to fire if an item is missing data for some period of time. For example, if we ...