Consolidate Zabbix alerts from across multiple sites into a single "at-a-glance" console by using a custom Zabbix alertscript.
Transform this ...
Into this ...
Copy the zabbix_alerta.py script into the AlertScriptsPath directory which is by default /usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts and make it executable:
$ wget https://raw.github.com/alerta/zabbix-alerta/master/zabbix_alerta.py
$ cp zabbix_alerta.py /usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts
$ chmod 755 /usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts/zabbix_alerta.py
To forward zabbix events to Alerta a new media script needs to be created and associated with a user. Follow the steps below as a Zabbix Admin user...
1/ Create a new media type [Admininstration > Media Types > Create Media Type]
Name: Alerta API
Type: Script
Script name: zabbix_alerta.py
2/ Modify the Media for the Admin user [Administration > Users]
Type: alerta
Send to: http://x.x.x.x:8080 <--- API hostname/IP and port of alerta server
When active: 1-7,00:00-24:00
Use if severity: (all)
Status: Enabled
3/ Configure Action [Configuration > Actions > Create Action > Action]
Name: Forward to Alerta
Default Subject: {TRIGGER.STATUS}: {TRIGGER.NAME}
Default Message:
resource={HOST.NAME1}
event={ITEM.KEY1}
group=Zabbix
value={ITEM.VALUE1}
status={TRIGGER.STATUS}
severity={TRIGGER.SEVERITY}
ack={EVENT.ACK.STATUS}
environment=infrastructure
service={TRIGGER.HOSTGROUP.NAME}
text={TRIGGER.NAME}
type=zabbixAlert
tags=ipaddr={HOST.IP1},id={TRIGGER.ID},event_id={EVENT.ID}
thresholdInfo={TRIGGER.TEMPLATE.NAME}: {TRIGGER.EXPRESSION}
For a full list of trigger macros see https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manual/appendix/macros/supported_by_location
To send OK events ...
Recovery message: [check]
Enabled [check]
At the Conditions tab, to only forward PROBLEM and OK events ...
(A) Maintenance status not in "maintenance"
(B) Trigger value = "PROBLEM"
To forward PROBLEM, ACKNOWLEDGED, OK events ...
(A) Maintenance status not in "maintenance"
Finally, add an operation:
Send to Users: Admin
Send only to: Alerta API
See the PagerDuty guide to configuring Zabbix integrations for an alertnative explanation with screenshots.
Copyright (c) 2013 Nick Satterly. Available under the MIT License.