Method reference

Method reference

This section provides an overview of the functions provided by the Zabbix API and will help you find your way around the available classes and methods.

Monitoring

The Zabbix API allows you to access history and other data gathered during monitoring.

High availability cluster

Retrieve a list of server nodes and their status.

High availability cluster API

History

Retrieve historical values gathered by Zabbix monitoring processes for presentation or further processing.

History API

Trends

Retrieve trend values calculated by Zabbix server for presentation or further processing.

Trend API

Events

Retrieve events generated by triggers, network discovery and other Zabbix systems for more flexible situation management or third-party tool integration.

Event API

Problems

Retrieve problems according to the given parameters.

Problem API

Service monitoring

Create a hierarchy representation of monitored IT infrastructure/business services data.

Service API

Service Level Agreement

Define Service Level Objectives (SLO), retrieve detailed Service Level Indicators (SLI) information about service performance.

SLA API

Tasks

Interact with Zabbix server task manager, creating tasks and retrieving response.

Task API

Configuration

The Zabbix API allows you to manage the configuration of your monitoring system.

Hosts and host groups

Manage host groups, hosts and everything related to them, including host interfaces, host macros and maintenance periods.

Items

Define items to monitor.

Item API

Triggers

Configure triggers to notify you about problems in your system. Manage trigger dependencies.

Trigger API

Graphs

Edit graphs or separate graph items for better presentation of the gathered data.

Graph API | Graph item API

Templates

Manage templates and link them to hosts or other templates.

Template API | Value map API

Export and import

Export and import Zabbix configuration data for configuration backups, migration or large-scale configuration updates.

Configuration API

Low-level discovery

Configure low-level discovery rules as well as item, trigger and graph prototypes to monitor dynamic entities.

LLD rule API | Item prototype API | Trigger prototype API | Graph prototype API | Host prototype API

Event correlation

Create custom event correlation rules.

Correlation API

Actions and alerts

Define actions and operations to notify users about certain events or automatically execute remote commands. Gain access to information about generated alerts and their receivers.

Action API | Alert API

Services

Manage services for service-level monitoring and retrieve detailed SLA information about any service.

Service API

Dashboards

Manage dashboards and make scheduled reports based on them.

Dashboard API | Template dashboard API | Report API

Maps

Configure maps to create detailed dynamic representations of your IT infrastructure.

Map API

Web monitoring

Configure web scenarios to monitor your web applications and services.

Web scenario API

Network discovery

Manage network-level discovery rules to automatically find and monitor new hosts. Gain full access to information about discovered services and hosts.

Discovery rule API | Discovery check API | Discovered host API | Discovered service API

Administration

With the Zabbix API you can change administration settings of your monitoring system.

Users

Add users that will have access to Zabbix, assign them to user groups and grant permissions. Make roles for granular management of user rights. Track configuration changes each user has done. Configure media types and multiple ways users will receive alerts.

User API | User group API | User role API | Media type API | Audit log API