Custom scheduling
The example of having a flexible interval of one minute works, but it's not very precise. For more exact timing, the other custom interval type can be used—scheduling. This enables you to obtain item values at an exact time. It also has one major difference from flexible intervals. Flexible intervals change how an item is polled, but custom scheduling does not change the existing polling. Scheduled checks are executed in addition to the normal or flexible intervals.
It may sound a lot like crontab, but Zabbix custom scheduling uses its own syntax. The time prefix is followed by a filter entry. Multiple time prefix and filter values are concatenated, going from the biggest to the smallest. The supported time prefixes are ...
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