{"id":271,"date":"2025-11-30T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sysadmins.nl\/?p=271"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:38:30","slug":"zabbix-triggers-menu-entry-url-host-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sysadmins.nl\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/zabbix-triggers-menu-entry-url-host-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Zabbix triggers: Menu entry URL -> Host dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently I hosted a Zabbix Certified Specialist course and got some questions on the Menu entry URL<\/em><\/strong> option which exists for triggers at hosts (and ofcourse also templates).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a Menu entry URL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can use a Menu entry URL<\/em><\/strong> to give your users an option to visit a specific URL (for example a Wiki on a specific topic regarding common problem which was detected by your trigger). But you can also use it more smarter and give your users a short cut to more information on the host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Host dashboards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A great thing to see is that more and more templates are expanded with Host dashboards (which you can find in Monitoring -> Hosts -> Dashboards of a specific host<\/em>). Like you can see in the screenshot below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With host dashboards it’s very easy to create a dashboard specific for a host and a topic on this host. For example the performance of the Apache webserver, Linux performance or the usage of a ITHO WPU5G Heatpump<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Menu entry URL<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When a trigger<\/em> evaluates the metrics and will mark the data as a problem<\/em>, it will show up with its defined severity level on the problems page (Monitoring -> problems<\/em>) or one of your own defined Global dashboards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You define a trigger on a host or template level, and at that page you can find the Menu entry URL<\/em><\/strong>. You can see this in the screenshot below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see, you can add a short name (which will be shown when you click on the link of a problem) and the URL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By using the following URL (which is relative to your Frontend URL<\/em><\/strong> which you can define in Administration -> General -> Other<\/em>), you always have a shortcut to the related dashboard on the host with a problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

zabbix.php?action=host.dashboard.view&hostid={HOST.ID}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Menu entry in action<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
When a trigger fires, you can click on the problem and get a small pop-up menu with different options. Especially with network interface you get a list of graphs and I somehow always manage to click the wrong one (the part which doesn’t show the graph where I can see the problem). For these problems, a Menu entry URL<\/em><\/strong> directing me to the Network performance dashboard of a host would be better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the following screenshot you’ll see the Menu entr<\/em>y name<\/strong> (which I defined for the Menu entry URL<\/em><\/strong>) when I click on a problem to get more info on the problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This shortcut redirects to the Host dashboard of this host, so I can start analyzing what would be the cause of a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make things better<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
With this blog post I hope to have helped you on a even more ease of use Zabbix on your platform!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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