Handy Tips #26: Displaying infrastructure status with the Geomap widget

Anonymous Anonymous

Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer

April 1, 2022

Display and track the status of your infrastructure on your dashboards by using the Zabbix Geomap widget. As your IT infrastructure grows and branches out, it can become more and more complicated to track the status of each and every infrastructure component. IT infrastructure administrators need to find a way to present the state of […]

Display and track the status of your infrastructure on your dashboards by using the Zabbix Geomap widget.

As your IT infrastructure grows and branches out, it can become more and more complicated to track the status of each and every infrastructure component. IT infrastructure administrators need to find a way to present the state of the infrastructure entities across different data centers in a simple and easy-to-understand fashion.

Display your infrastructure status by using the Zabbix Geomap widget:

Choose from different geographical map providers
Display the number of problems in a particular geographical location

Use filters to display only a specific subset of hosts
Select problems of which severities should be displayed on the map

Check out the video to learn how to deploy the Geomap widget on Zabbix dashboards.

How to deploy the Geomap widget on Zabbix dashboards:

Navigate to Configuration → Hosts
Open a host that you wish to display on the Geographical map
Confirm that the host inventory is in Automatic or Manual mode
Open the Inventory tab
Populate the Location longitude and Location latitude fields
Press the Update button
- You can use the Mass update functionality to update the inventory information for multiple hosts
Navigate to Monitoring → Dashboard and open your dashboard
Click the Edit dashboard button and press the Add button
Select the Geomap widget
Apply the host filters and provide the initial view coordinates
- Right-click on the map to provide the initial view coordinates after the map has been created
Press the Add button
Navigate to Administration → General → Geographical maps and try out other Tile providers

Tips and best practices

Host markers displayed on the map have the color of the host’s most serious problem and green color if a host has no problems
If no filters are selected, all hosts with valid coordinates will be displayed
You can use Zabbix items or the Zabbix API to automatically populate the host inventory fields
It is possible to specify a custom geographical map tile provider under Administration → General → Geographical maps