Chapter 5. Visualizing Your Topology with Maps and Graphs

As you probably already know, Zabbix's approach to monitoring is based on separating data gathered from trigger logic and event logging. On the one hand, this means that you are able to reference any measurement, present and past, in your triggers, making them all the more powerful. On the other hand, it also means that you have direct access to all your measurement history for all your items.

While sorting through all of your historical data to look for a specific value can certainly be useful, the real advantage here is to leverage Zabbix's graphing and mapping functionalities to aggregate and visualize data in meaningful ways.

In this chapter, you'll see how to create complex graphs from your items' numerical values, how to automatically draw maps that reflect the current status of your network, and how to bring it all together using screens as a tool to customize monitoring data presentation.