Change Log

[4.6.0] - 2024-12-16

• Feature: Added support for Zabbix 7. ( Fixes #1914 )
• Feature: Host ID alias function $__zbx_host_id (#1913)
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where mixed datasource with variable ref were not working #1909
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where multiple SLA queries not handled correctly #1910
• Chore: Updated grafana plugin SDK

[4.5.7] - 2024-10-30

• Chore: Bump uplot to 1.6.31
• Chore: Bump grafana-plugin-sdk-go from 0.250.0 to 0.251.0

[4.5.6] - 2024-10-21

• Fix: AlertList styling issues in grafana 11.0.0
• Chore: Migrate example dashboards from deprecated panels

[4.5.5] - 2024-09-30

• Chore: Bump dompurify from 3.1.0 to 3.1.6
• Chore: Bump grafana-plugin-sdk-go from 0.250.0 to 0.251.0
• Chore: Bump grafana-plugin-sdk-go from 0.247.0 to 0.250.0

[4.5.4] - 2024-09-12

• Chore: Bump path-to-regexp from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0
• Chore: Bump grafana-plugin-sdk-go from 0.236.0 to 0.247.0

[4.5.3] - 2024-09-03

• Chore: Bump fast-loops from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4
• Chore: Bump webpack from 5.88.2 to 5.94.0
• Chore: Bump micromatch from 4.0.5 to 4.0.8
• Docs: Update documentation about Alias functions

[4.5.2] - 2024-07-01

• Chore: Changes required for nested plugins
• Chore: Updated the executable path

[4.5.1] - 2024-06-14

• Fix: Problems queries not working before zabbix version 7

[4.5.0] - 2024-06-10

• Add support for Zabbix version 7

[4.4.9] - 2024-04-30

• Fix: Improve compatibility with the scenes framework (#1822)
• Chore: Update dependencies

[4.4.8] - 2024-04-15

• Chore: Update dependencies

[4.4.7] - 2024-04-08

• Chore: Bump grafana-plugin-sdk-go from v0.193.0 to v0.220.0
• Chore: Update plugin keywords

[4.4.6] - 2024-03-07

• Fix: API token reset not working (#1797)
• Chore: Build with go 1.22

[4.4.5] - 2024-01-10

• ⚙️ Docs: Documentation website moved from github pages to grafana.com/docs/plugins page
• Handle changed PostgreSQL plugin id #1771

[4.4.4] - 2023-11-21

Feature

• Update configuration page to follow best practices

Fix

• Dashboards not showing up in configuration

Chore

• Added lint github workflow
• Update grafana-plugin-sdk-go to latest
• Remove legacy form styling

[4.4.3] - 2023-10-10

Chore

• Don't track requests on dashboard #1707

[4.4.2] - 2023-10-09

Chore

• Upgrade dependencies #1692 #1702
• Added feature tracking #1688

Docs

• Fix broken link in query editor and doc #1701

[4.4.1] - 2023-08-30

Fixed

• Plugin unavailable, #1604

[4.4.0] - 2023-08-17

Added

• Support for secure socks proxy, #1653
• Able to use API tokens for authentication, #1513
• Problems: Able to select AND/OR tag evaluation rule, #1600

Fixed

• Application filter does not work in some cases, #1597
• Application filter in the triggers query, #1643
• Problems: pagination on footer doesn't work #1649
• Single host items contain the hostname in the legend, #1335
• IT Services: displaying multiple SLA, #1603

[4.3.1] - 2023-03-23

Fixed

• Cannot create or edit variables (unexpected error happened), #1590
• Item tag filter not working properly, #1594
• SLA dates differ in Grafana and Zabbix, #1595
• Problems panel: invalid problem lastchange time for list layout, #1596
• Problems panel: tags filter doesn't work in history mode, #1592

[4.3.0] - 2023-03-21

Added

• SLA support in Zabbix 6.0, #1437
• Build for FreeBSD, #1301
• Problems panel: add operational data, #1260
• Problems panel: allow HTML in problem description, #1557
• Problems panel: show acknowledge author in message, #1281
• Problems panel: query problems with particular severity, #572
• Show non-suppressed problems from maintenance hosts when "Show Maintenance Hosts" is not selected, #830
• Set data frame name in triggers query mode, #1441
• Use trends by graph, #1442
• Improved performance of item tags, #1315
• Triggers query mode: add time range switcher, #918

Fixed

• Zabbix authentication does not work in 6.4, #1544
• Error json: invalid use of ,string struct tag, trying to unmarshal into float64, #1325
• Triggers: acknowledged filter doesn't work, #985

[4.2.10] - 2022-09-01

Fixed

• Perl regex syntax no longer accepted in any filter, #1264
• InfluxDB direct DB connection error (this.influxDS._seriesQuery(...).then is not a function), #1255

[4.2.9] - 2022-07-12

Fixed

• Plugin is not working with Zabbix 6.2.0, #1470

[4.2.8] - 2022-05-06

Fixed

• setAlias() doesn't work in some cases, #1444
• Trend data displayed incorrectly when direct DB connection enabled, #1445

[4.2.7] - 2022-05-04

Fixed

• IT Services not working with Zabbix 6.0, #1408
• Problems panel: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'trim') error when tag has only name, #1420
• Dashboards not included into plugin, #1407
• Missing labels in response, #1352
• Query returns all application data when host not found, #1427
• Basic Auth is not working (401 Unauthorized), #1327
• Show disabled items option is not working, #1249

[4.2.6] - 2022-04-04

Fixed

• Problems panel: incorrect problem name when PROBLEM event generation mode set to multiple, #1403

[4.2.5] - 2022-02-17

Fixed

• Problems panel: error when attempting to click on info button, #1357
• Error parsing regexp: invalid or unsupported Perl syntax, #1318
• json: cannot unmarshal number into Go struct field TimeSeriesData.series.TS of type int64, #1320
• json: cannot unmarshal number into Go struct field QueryModel.queryType of type string, #1342
• Grafana does not get units from Zabbix in 4.2, #1321

[4.2.4] - 2021-09-27

Fixed

• Time series is cut on certain conditions, #1309
• groupBy/aggregateBy handles interval improperly, #1310
• top() function returns incorrect set of series, #1313
• Some data alignment/stacking issues

[4.2.3] - 2021-09-21

Fixed

• Different collection intervals compatibility (stacked graph issue), #1211
• Graph broken when trend data used, #1300
• Zabbix API request error "EOF", #1295
• Item tag does not accept variables, #1283
• Failed to query data, rpc error, #1262
• Error Cannot read property 'isZabbix54OrHigher' of undefined when creating a variable template query, #1282

[4.2.2] - 2021-08-25

Fixed

• Different item intervals compatibility (stacked graph issue), #1211
• Random "Failed to call resource" errors and plugin restarts, #1269
• Top function does not work if number of series less than provided N, #1267
• Host names are not displayed on multiple selection (regular expression), #1265
• Cannot unmarshal number into Go struct field ZabbixDatasourceSettingsDTO.timeout of type string, #1254
• sortSeries() does not sort by series name, #1274

[4.2.1] - 2021-08-10

Fixed

• No data on queries with aggregation function
• Wrong percentile aggregation

[4.2.0] - 2021-08-10

Added

• Support functions on the backend (alerting with functions), #869
• Support item tags instead of application in Zabbix 5.4, #1258

Fixed

• Direct DB connection - No data in Grafana 8.0, #1221
• Error when attempting to acknowledge problems in Grafana 8.0, #1239
• Explore button in Problems view doesn't work (redirects to 404), #1240
• Zabbix value mapping doesn't work in Grafana 8.0, #1222
• Unable to see acknowledges if problem has tags, #1233
• Ack button is not visible on narrow layouts, #1252

[4.1.5] - 2021-05-18

Fixed

• Fix compatibility with Zabbix 5.4, #1188

[4.1.4] - 2021-03-09

Fixed

• Field/Standard options/Display name stopped working in 4.1 release, #1130
• Functions: trendsValue(sum) is not working, #935

[4.1.3] - 2021-03-05

Fixed

• Explore: Error "Unexpected field length", #1150
• Problems: item last value truncated text, #1145
• Problems: minor UI bug, #1149
• Option to disable zabbix value mapping translation in query, #1128

[4.1.2] - 2021-01-28

Fixed

• Item ID query mode doesn't work, #1148
• IT Services: a.round_interval is not a function, #1142
• Problems: Text overlap between the tooltip and description boxes, #1138
• Problems: expanded row overwritten on refresh, #1143

[4.1.1] - 2020-12-30

Fixed

• Graphs with dependent items failed to render, #1123

[4.1.0] - 2020-12-28

Added

• Data Frames support, #10820. This solves various issues below:
• Use units configured in Zabbix if possible
• Use value mappings from Zabbix
• Align points in each series to prevent stacking graph issues
• Fill missing points with null values, #1109
• Problems: filter problems by time range, #1094
• ARM build (ARM64 and ARM v6), #1028

Fixed

• Grafana doesn't prevent from saving alerts with template variables, #1100
• Query inspector is not working, #1097
• Problems panel query editor issues, #988
• Problems: unable to change severity to Not Classified, #1104
• Problems: ack message limited to 64 characters, #1122

[4.0.2] - 2020-11-13

Fixed

• Query mode Text returns no data for last value, #1062
• Able to configure API request timeout, #1046
• Support basic auth for backend requests, #1048
• Problems: fix empty problems list when null value used as a filter
• Problems: fix long item values displaying

[4.0.1] - 2020-09-02

Fixed

• Plugin is not signed, #1038
• Datasource: "Parse error Invalid JSON. An error occurred on the server while parsing the JSON text" , #1004
• Datasource: Skip TLS Verify button does not work, #1029
• Config: can't select Direct DB Connection in Grafana 7.1.5, #1027
• Problems: trigger dependencies not resolved, #1024

[4.0.0] - 2020-08-25

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 command-line:

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.

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

[4.0.0-alpha4] - 2020-07-21

Fixed

• Problems: filtering by tags
• Problems: sorting order
• Problems: performance improvements (remove unnecessary queries)

[4.0.0-alpha3] - 2020-07-17

Fixed

• Problems: empty problem list, #955

[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] - 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.

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] - 2020-05-28

Fixed

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

[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] - 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] - 2020-03-23

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] - 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] - 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] - 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] - 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

[3.10.1] - 2019-03-05

Fixed

• Problems panel: unable to edit panel in Grafana 6.0, #685
• Problems panel: datasource selector is empty, #692
• Problems panel: "acknowledged" filter doesn't work correctly, #678 #691
• Problems panel: acknowledged color isn't working, #676
• Problems panel: highlight background doesn't work correctly for resolved events in List view, #681
• Problems panel: duplicated page size entries, #696
• Direct DB Connection: unable to get trends data from InfluxDB, #675
• Annotations are not displayed when time set to a full day/week/month, #680
• Datasource provisioning with direct DB connection enabled failed #688
• Functions: offset function returns NaN in singlestat panel, #683
• Functions: median() doesn't correspond to aggregateBy(median) , #690
• Docs: add warnings about installation methods, #693

[3.10.0] - 2019-02-14

Added

• Table-like layout for Problems (former Triggers) panel, #673
• Problems panel: able to show last problems from dashboard time range, #550
• Problems panel: filter problems by event tags, #487
• Problems panel: option for displaying groups and proxy, #418
• Support InfluxDB as Direct DB Connection datasource, #640, collaboration with Gleb Ivanovsky aka @i-ky
• Support datasource provisioning with direct DB connection enabled, #614
• Functions: offset function, #387, thanks to @drakosha
• Functions: removeAboveValue, removeBelowValue, transformNull functions, #562, thanks to @gelonsoft

Fixed

• t.replace is not a function error when adding new metric, #661
• Problems panel: error when acknowledging problems in Zabbix 4.0, #629
• Problems panel: direct link rendered image, #605
• Direct DB Connection: Cannot read property 'name' of null error when no series returned, #571
• Direct DB Connection: consolidateBy(sum) does not work correctly, #603
• Direct DB Connection: consolidateBy() affects other metrics in a panel, #602

Changed

• Disable auto-creation of Zabbix/Linux Server dashboards (still can be imported from datasource config page) , #422
• Use Webpack for building plugin, #632
• dist/ folder removed from repo, installation from github repo doesn't work anymore, #693

[3.9.1] - 2018-05-02

Fixed

• Datasource fails when "Direct DB connection" enabled #564
• Alerting and health icons on panels #556
• Alerting threshold error #549

[3.9.0] - 2018-03-23

Added

• Table format support for text data #492
• Option to enable triggers background highlighting #532
• Option to disable acknowledges for read-only users #481

Fixed

• Triggers panel has broken styles in Grafana 5.0 #522
• Undefined username in acknowledges #393

[3.8.1] - 2017-12-21

Fixed

• Triggers panel multiple targets bug (typing in one target affects other)
• Triggers panel event source icon

[3.8.0] - 2017-12-20

Added

• Multiple data sources support for triggers panel, #431

Changed

• Triggers Panel fully redesigned, closed a bunch of issues: #431, #488, #299, #485, #412, #157, #483, #487, #248
• Tests migrated to Jest

Fixed

• Triggers panel refreshing issues
• aggregateBy() function bug, #498

[3.7.0] - 2017-10-24

Added

• PostgreSQL support for Direct DB Connection.
• Triggers query mode which allows to count active alerts by group, host and application, #141
• sortSeries() function that allows to sort multiple timeseries by name, #447, thanks to @mdorenkamp
• percentile() function, thanks to @pedrohrf
• Zabbix System Status example dashboard.

Changed

• Included dashboards moved to data source. Go to the data source config to import it.

Fixed

• Direct DB connection doesn't work with ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY option enabled, #445
• Application selection doesn't work, #352
• "data points outside time range" error when there is no datapoints and aggregation function is used
• Missed Max data points option in Grafana 4.5+
• Missed query editor help in Grafana 4.5+
• Alert threshold detection with <= >= = operators, thanks to @akotynski.

[3.6.1] - 2017-07-26

Fixed

• cannot read property 'enable' of undefined error after upgrade, #436

[3.6.0] - 2017-07-26

Added

• Direct DB Connection, which allows to use existing SQL data source for querying history data directly from Zabbix database.
• Docs: Direct DB Connection reference and configuration.
• consolidateBy function, which allows to specify aggregation function for time series data.
• movingAverage and exponentialMovingAverage functions.
• Item ID editor mode for querying items by id.

Changed

• IT Services query editor. Now user able to select multiple services by using regex, #415

Fixed

• Template variables support in annotations and triggers panel (trigger name field) , #428
• Parsing of template variable query with braces, #432
• sumSeries() function bug, #286

[3.5.1] - 2017-07-10

Fixed

• Bug with alerting when template queries are used, #424

[3.5.0] - 2017-07-05

Added

• rate() function, which calculates per-second rate for growing counters.
• Benchmarks for time series functions. Used Benchmark.js library.

Changed

• Template query format. New format is {group}{host}{app}{item}. It allows to use names with dot. Updated templating docs, #254
• Update included dashboards. Add templated zabbix datasource and use it for all metrics.
• Improved performance of groupBy() functions (at 6-10x faster than old).
• Fill empty intervals by null when aggregations are used, #388

Fixed

• Item name expanding when key contains commas in quoted params, like my_key["a=1,b=2",c,d]
• Incorrect points order when trends are used #202
• Triggers panel styles for light theme
• Bug with text metrics when singlestat or table shows NaN, #325

[3.4.0] - 2017-05-17

Added

• Alerting: highlight panel contained metrics with fired triggers.
• Alerting: add thresholds to panels from zabbix triggers.
• Docs: add docs for setAliasByRegex() from @v-zhuravlev
• Support millisecond resolution on graphs. Patch from Jay Dawes ajaxous@gmail.com.
• Sum and count aggregations.
• Expand user macros in items #212
• replaceAlias() function #287
• Additional Range config option for trends #364

Changed

• Add template variables to dropdown metric list #310
• Add all value regex /.*/ to host dropdown.
• Replace native map() and forEach() methods by lodash.

Fixed

• Templatig issue when no values returned #354
• Add host name for multiple text metrics.
• Timeshift issue (Datapoints outside time range) for multiple targets with timeshift() , #338

[3.3.0] - 2017-02-10

Added

• Triggers panel: allow to hide hosts in maintenance #186
• Triggers panel: allow to change font size #351.
• Triggers panel: table pagination #229
• Triggers panel: add 'enable scroll' control and page size input.

Changed

• Triggers panel: rearrange options.

Fixed

• Grunt: fix watch task.

[3.2.1] - 2017-02-02

Added

• Docs: add building instructions.
• setAliasByRegex() function

Changed

• Docs: deprecate special repo with built plugins.
• Triggers panel: remove 'default' from datasources list (cause error), iss #340
• Add dist/ directory to repo to correspond development guide http://docs.grafana.org/plugins/development/

Fixed

• Triggers panel: metrics suggestion.
• Triggers panel: event acknowledge.
• Triggers panel: panel styles.
• Query editor: options styles.
• Docs: fixed timeShift() docs
• Error for new empty panel #337
• Checking query for variables.

[3.2.0] - 2017-02-02 [YANKED]

Added

• timeShift() function #307