Here's a thread on the forum about the same idea:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=82232#post82232

Yes, I have wanted something like this for a long time. The best example I can think of that does very close to this is the pause sensor in PRTG. (http://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg8/pause). This simple addition to Zabbix would vastly improve the usability for me. If it could also allow data collection to still occur during the pause but simply supress alerts that would be perfect in my opinion.

I found this issue via the duplicate https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-769

Being able to temporarily acknowledge alerts but have the acknowledgement expire after a period of time and start re-alerting is something we want too. It's a feature that's always been part of the commercial monitoring package that we're abandoning, and it's probably the thing we miss the most.

I understand that this poses some tricky issues with regard to escalations, but this feature is actually a lot more important to us than escalations. I'm going to start looking at the DB schema to see if there's a way I can expire acknowledgements by accessing the database directly. I'm not excited about that, but it's that important to us.

In the short term we have implemented www.pagerduty.com as a workaround. It would be terrific if Zabbix could support similar workflows for alerting and escalation.

I would appreciate something similar to [..]time limit ("ACKNOWLEDGE for 24 hours") as additional option in operational condition of action operations.

Hi. Is there any update on this issue? In order to cover extremely useful functionality found in another software, it would be required to do the following at host+trigger level:

• disable notifications until ok again
• disable notification until a date is reached
• disable notifications until x minutes, hours, days, weeks from now

This issue old and I've tried to find in documentation about related functionality, but couldn't find it. Appreciate any info, thanks!!

Is this planned for version 4?
palivoda Not in plan. Fix version 4.0 (plan) indicate that it might be included.

where can I see what is planned for v4?

Tag based maintenance might have partially resolved this.

I too would love to have this feature. It's the only thing keeping my organization from adopting Zabbix as the monitoring tool of choice.

@richlv

Can you give me an example as to how this could work? I'm doing a pic for different monitoring applications and this particular feature is the deal breaker on whether or not we get to choose Zabbix.

The solution exists. Just check Example 9 here > https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.2/manual/config/triggers/expression

Just a quick update. We are aiming to include this functionality in Zabbix 6.2, stay tuned.

hello @alexei . Great new ! We work with tag like it but there is some limitations :

• Somes triggers has a tag "maintenance" with a period value (like "night" ou "week-end")
• We have a group with all hosts
• A maintenance with conditions "all hosts" + maintenance tag "night"

But, we have an icon "maintenance" on all hosts on each "trigger maintenance" ... (cf https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-5897?filter=20717 )

Implemented in:

• 6.2.0rc1 (master) 47ffe708ae8

Updated API documentation pages:

• event.acknowledge
• event.get
• problem.get
• Role object
• Changes from 6.0 to 6.2

Updated documentation pages:

• Updating problems
• Problem suppression
• Problems
• Problem widget
• Hosts
• User roles
• What's new in 6.2