Handy Tips #5: Keep your team up to date with scheduled Zabbix reports

Anonymous Anonymous

Technical Writer at Zabbix

September 30, 2021

Convert any dashboard into a recurring PDF report and email it out on a set interval. Help your team make smarter, data-backed decisions by sending them regular updates. Before the release of Zabbix 5.4, the native Zabbix reporting capabilities were quite limited and users had to resort to writing custom API scripts to format and […]

Convert any dashboard into a recurring PDF report and email it out on a set interval. Help your team make smarter, data-backed decisions by sending them regular updates.

Before the release of Zabbix 5.4, the native Zabbix reporting capabilities were quite limited and users had to resort to writing custom API scripts to format and receive the required reports on a schedule.

With the release of Zabbix 5.4, Zabbix users can finally send and receive scheduled PDF reports:

The report will be emailed as a PDF attachment
Customizable email subject and message fields
Daily, weekly, monthly or yearly reports

Create an unlimited number of reports
Recipient access permissions will be respected in reports

Check out the video to learn how to schedule a PDF report:

Let’s schedule a new report directly from a dashboard

In a dashboard, press the menu icon and select Create new report
The report name must be unique
Select the dashboard in the Dashboard field
Choose the period for which the report will be generated
Select the report cycle
Select the report start time
Optionally, select the report start and end date
Specify email subject and message
Select users or users groups who should receive the report
Optionally, add a report description
Select your report in Monitoring → Scheduled reports
Press Test to make sure the report is configured correctly
Confirm that the test report has been received
Save the report. It will be sent out on the next report cycle

Tips and best practices:

When testing the report, the test report will be sent to the current user
To enable scheduled report generation, you need to install and configure Zabbix web service
Reports are sent to the email addresses specified in Zabbix user profiles under the Email media.
Subject and message fields support the macro {TIME}. It will be expanded as current time in hh:mm:ss format