4.0.0-alpha2

Grafana-Zabbix 4.0.0-alpha2

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.

Version 4.0 is currently in alpha state and not published at grafana.com. In order to install it, follow these steps:

1. Go to the GitHub releases and find latest 4.0.0 release.
2. Download .zip package with plugin from release assets (asset name is grafana-zabbix-4.0.0-<alphaX|betaX>.zip).
3. Unpack it and put into grafana plugins folder.
4. Unsigned plugins are not loading by default, so allow it in config:

   allow_loading_unsigned_plugins = alexanderzobnin-zabbix-datasource

5. restart Grafana server

Refer to allow_loading_unsigned_plugins option description for more information.

[4.0.0-alpha2] - 2020-06-18

Fixed

• Problems: panel migrations when panel options is not opened (options not saved after reload)
• Problems: item value tooltip placement

Added

• Problems: use severity filter from panel options

Removed

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

4.0.0-alpha1

Grafana-Zabbix 4.0.0-alpha1

[4.0.0-alpha1] - 2020-06-04

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.

Version 4.0 is currently in alpha state and not published at grafana.com. In order to install it, follow these steps:

1. Go to the GitHub releases and find latest 4.0.0 release.
2. Download .zip package with plugin from release assets (asset name is grafana-zabbix-4.0.0-<alphaX|betaX>.zip).
3. Unpack it and put into grafana plugins folder.
4. Unsigned plugins are not loading by default, so allow it in config:

   allow_loading_unsigned_plugins = alexanderzobnin-zabbix-datasource

5. restart Grafana server

Refer to allow_loading_unsigned_plugins option description for more information.

Changes

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

3.12.2

[3.12.2] - 2020-05-28

Fixed

• Annotations feature doesn't work, #964
• Alias variables do not work with direct DB connection enabled, #965

3.12.1

[3.12.1] - 2020-05-25

Fixed

• Problems: panel fails with error (cannot read property 'description' of undefined), #954
• Problems: problem name filter doesn't work, #962
• Problems: acknowledged filter doesn't work, #961

3.12.0

[3.12.0] - 2020-05-21

Added

• Variables: able to query item values, #417
• Functions: expose host, item, app to the alias functions, #619
• Problems: navigate to Explore and show graphs for the problem, #948
• Problems: able to show Problems/Recent problems/History, #495
• Problems: icon with acknowledges count, #946
• IT Services: support SLA intervals, #885

Fixed

• Explore doesn't work with Zabbix datasource, #888
• SLA value is incorrect, #885
• Graph panel randomly shows no data, #861
• Variables: unable to edit variables in Grafana 7.0.0, #949
• Variables: wrong variable scope inside repeated rows, #912
• Problems: resolve macros in URLs, #190
• Problems: unable to acknowledge resolved problem, #942
• Problems: resolved problems color and severity set to Not classified, #909
• Problems: can't acknowledge alert in panel with a single problem, #900
• Annotations: ITEM.VALUE behaves like ITEM.LASTVALUE in annotations, #891
• Alert state on the panel (heart icon) doesn't work in Grafana 6.7, #931
• Consolidated average is not accurate with direct DB connection, #752

Changed

• Problems panel uses new problem.get API which is not compatible with Zabbix 3.x, #495
• Problems panel is metrics panel now, problems query editor moved to the data source.
• Zabbix version is auto detected now, #727

3.11.0

Added

• Improve variable query editor, #705
• Transform/percentile function, #868

Fixed

• Problems panel: stopped working in Grafana 6.7.0, #907
• Problems panel: event severity change, #870
• Problems panel: color is changed to acknowledged even if there is only message without acknowledgment, #857
• Percentile function returns incorrect results, #862

3.10.5

[3.10.5] - 2019-12-26

Added

• SLA over time graphs, #728
• Additional time ranges in functions, #531

Fixed

• Problems panel: query editor broken in Grafana 6.4, #817
• Datasource: function editor is not working, #810
• Datasource: cannot add a function to query from typeahead, #468
• Datasource: annotations editor broken in Grafana 6.x, #813
• React plugins issue, #823

3.10.4

[3.10.4] - 2019-08-08

Fixed

• Problems panel: query editor broken in Grafana 6.3, #778
• Problems panel: some heart icons are missing, #754

3.10.3

[3.10.3] - 2019-07-26

Fixed

• Direct DB Connection: can't stay enabled, #731
• Triggers query mode: count doesn't work with Singlestat, #726
• Query editor: function editor looks odd in Grafana 6.x, #765
• Alerting: heart icon on panels in Grafana 6.x, #715

3.10.2

[3.10.2] - 2019-04-23

Fixed

• Direct DB Connection: provisioned datasource fails to load, #711
• Functions: sumSeries doesn't work in couple with other aggregation functions, #530
• Problems panel: performance and memory issues, #720, #712
• Problems panel: hide acknowledge button for read-only users, #722
• Problems panel: "no data" overlaps table header when font size increased, #717
• Problems panel: problem description does not resize problem bar, #704
• Triggers query mode: problems not filtered by selected groups, #709