4.0.0

Grafana-Zabbix 4.0.0

4.0 Feature highlights

Grafana-Zabbix 4.0 comes with a bunch of changes under the hood. The most important thing introduced is a backend, which brings a number of benefits:

• Alerting support (limited, data processing functions are not supported yet).
• Fixed security issues related to exposing data source credentials to the Grafana frontend and storing password as a plain text in database.
• Improved performance (plugin can cache queries and process data on the backend).
• With improved security it makes easier to add actions (execute scripts, close problems, etc).

Installation

Prerequisites: plugin requires Grafana 7.0 to run.

Use the grafana-cli tool to install Zabbix from the commandline:

1. grafana-cli plugins install alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app
2. Unsigned plugins are not loading by default, so allow it in the Grafana config file:

   allow_loading_unsigned_plugins = alexanderzobnin-zabbix-datasource

3. restart Grafana server

Refer to allow_loading_unsigned_plugins option description for more information.

[4.0.0] - 2020-08-25

Security

• Zabbix credentials available for everyone who can see dashboard, #380
• Store password encrypted, #800

Added

• Alerting support (limited, data processing functions are not supported yet), #801
• Problems: execute scripts, #978
• Problems: tooltip with problem description
• Problems: use severity filter from panel options

Fixed

• Problems: problems history
• Problems: sorting by severity, #921
• Datasource: reconnecting on request error
• Problems: filtering by tags
• Problems: sorting order
• Problems: performance improvements (remove unnecessary queries)
• Problems: empty problem list, #955
• Problems: panel migrations when panel options is not opened (options not saved after reload)
• Problems: item value tooltip placement

Removed

• Old alerting feature (show heart icon on the panel), replaced by Grafana alerting