Zabbix

The Zabbix connector allows you to centralize your monitored hosts inventory, alerts and performance metrics from your Zabbix platform.

Objective

The Zabbix connector retrieves the following information:

• Monitored hosts inventory
• Active alerts and triggers
• Performance metrics and historical data

Prerequisites

• Access to Zabbix with API rights
• Zabbix API key OR username/password credentials

Information to provide in OverView

Note: At minimum, provide the API URL plus either an API Key or a Username/Password combination.

Procedure

Option 1: Use an API token (Zabbix 6.0+)

1. Log in to Zabbix with an administrator account.
2. Go to Administration > General > API tokens.
3. Click Create API token.
4. Name the token OverView with appropriate expiration.
5. Select the required permissions:
   • Read access to hosts
   • Read access to alerts/triggers
   • Read access to history
6. Click Create and copy the generated token.

Option 2: Use username/password

1. Create a dedicated user in Zabbix:
   • Username: oversoc-api
   • Password: Generate a strong password
2. Assign the appropriate role with read permissions.
3. Record the credentials.

Configure the connector in OverView

1. In OverView, go to Data Sources Settings > Sources.
2. Select Zabbix and click Configure.
3. Fill in the fields:
   • API URL: Complete URL of the Zabbix API
   • API Key: Generated API token (if used)
   • Username: Zabbix username (if used)
   • Password: Zabbix password (if used)
4. Click Test Connection to verify the connection.
5. Click Save Configuration.

View Zabbix API tokens documentation

Required Permissions

Minimum required permissions:

• Read hosts and configurations
• Read alerts and triggers
• Access to historical data and metrics
• Read performance information