Aggregate calculations

Overview

In aggregate calculations information from several items may be collected by Zabbix server (by doing direct database queries) to calculate an aggregate, depending on the aggregate function used.

Aggregate calculations do not require any agent running on the host being monitored.

To define aggregate calculations, select the Calculated item type.

Syntax

Aggregates can be retrieved by working with either:

• history of items:

aggregate_function(function(/host/item,parameter),function(/host2/item2,parameter),...)

• a foreach function as the only parameter:

aggregate_function(foreach_function(/*/key?[group="host group"],timeperiod))

where:

• aggregate_function is one of the supported aggregate functions: avg, max, min, sum, etc.
• foreach_function is one of the supported foreach functions: avg_foreach, count_foreach, etc.

Foreach functions work with the history of multiple items and return an array of values - one for each item.

An aggregate calculation may become unsupported if:

• none of the referenced items is found (which may happen if the item key is incorrect, none of the items exists or all included groups are incorrect)
• no data to calculate a function

Usage examples

Examples of keys for aggregate calculations.

Example 1

Total disk space of host group 'MySQL Servers'.

sum(last_foreach(/*/vfs.fs.size[/,total]?[group="MySQL Servers"]))

Example 2

Sum of latest values of all items matching net.if.in[*] on the host.

sum(last_foreach(/host/net.if.in[*]))

Example 3

Average processor load of host group 'MySQL Servers'.

avg(last_foreach(/*/system.cpu.load[,avg1]?[group="MySQL Servers"]))

Example 4

5-minute average of the number of queries per second for host group 'MySQL Servers'.

avg(avg_foreach(/*/mysql.qps?[group="MySQL Servers"],5m))

Example 5

Average CPU load on all hosts in multiple host groups that have the specific tags.

avg(last_foreach(/*/system.cpu.load?[(group="Servers A" or group="Servers B" or group="Servers C") and (tag="Service:" or tag="Importance:High")]))

Example 6

Calculation used on the latest item value sums of a whole host group.

sum(last_foreach(/*/net.if.out[eth0,bytes]?[group="video"])) / sum(last_foreach(/*/nginx_stat.sh[active]?[group="video"])) 

Example 7

The total number of unsupported items in host group 'Zabbix servers'.

sum(last_foreach(/*/zabbix[host,,items_unsupported]?[group="Zabbix servers"]))