FYI ZBXNEXT-731

Note: This request differs from ZBXNEXT-731 in that we'd like to extract info from arbitrary graphs, not just the last data sampled.

Example: Use a days worth of item samples to make a graph, then output the items plotted in the graph to a CSV to import into other apps/spreadsheets for planning/justification/issue reports etc. We do this all the time with our other monitoring packages and it would be great to do this with Zabbix as well.

would switching to "values" and clicking on "as plain text" work ?

Re: Switching to values.
I'm new to Zabbix, could you elaborate on where "values" option is? Thanks!

It still would leave Zabbix not doing something the other packages its being compared to have done for quite a while.

I'm new to Zabbix, could you elaborate on where "values" option is? Thanks!

The last screenshot, the right upper corner.

Thanks for the pointer Oleg!

It's certainly closer to what we want/need but is still significantly different from what is produced by our other applications; i.e. manual cut/paste into a file, one item at a time rather than all graph data items at onces, etc.

It would be nice to have the values/plain text option available somewhere on the actual graph page; our other apps have a button or dropdown on the graph page to output the data used by the graph in CSV/XML/Excel/etc.

if you are interested in bulk data export, check out the api

It isn't so much bulk data export as getting data items, usually multiple items per single graph, from a particular graph saved in CSV format files.

Our other platforms export it with a click from the graph area. It would be nice if Zabbix did as well, thus the feature request.

All the other monitoring programs we use, both open source and proprietary/internal, have this.

We were quite puzzled that Zabbix did not.

I'm trying to convince our security team to migrate away from Cacti but this issue is a big roadblock for them.
In Cacti they can select a region on a composite graph and export the values for that region to csv with the click of a button.

Would be very nice to have!

Is there anything done on this matter?

I think this option is pretty important!

Im finding this an issue data centre team moving from their existing tool cacti as they to extract the data for their reporting system. This is one of the final hurdles for them and hopefully we can be rid of cacti and be a zabbix only site.

Ya same here

just a reminder that values for a simple graph can be easily accessed from the graph page, dropdown in the upper right corner.

also please note the discouragement of "me too" comments as per https://www.zabbix.org/wiki/Docs/bug_reporting_guidelines#Reporting_an_issue

and eventually, if you'd like to get some community advice or discuss some issue, everybody is highly welcome on irc - see https://www.zabbix.org/wiki/Getting_help#IRC for the detail

Hi Richlv,

I have mentioned the separate simple graphs to the guys however they have composite graphs containing of all the data center air conditioners and ups devices information. This way on one graph they can see all the air conditioners in a location and whether the temperatures or humidity are consistent with each other or whether one of the units is spiking etc...

Regards
James

Adding CSV export button to history data screen is nice feature as well, adding the button next to "As plain text".

it might be worth also considering other structured formats - maybe json, which could even match zabbix api output somewhat ?

ZBXNEXT-3301 asks for such a structured data transfer for configuration entities

This is a traditional feature for quick analytics. As products and methods of analysis spread, they will become more and more in demand among users.
The data should be opened in one click without transformation or cleaning.

sorting the values by ascending time would also be nice.