Get access to internal zabbix server performance statistics for reporting and graphing using tools like Ganglia, Cacti etc.

The following statistics are available:

 | STATISTIC         | SOURCE OF VALUE                    | 
 +-------------------+------------------------------------+
 | version, revision | ZABBIX_VERSION, ZABBIX_REVISION    |
 | boottime          | zabbix["boottime"]                 | 
 | uptime            | zabbix["uptime"]                   |
 | time              | time()                             |
 | items_total       | zabbix["items"]                    |
 | items_unsupported | zabbix["items_unsupported"]        |
 | triggers_total    | zabbix["triggers"]                 |
 | items_queue       | zabbix["queue",0,-1]               |
 | required_perf     | zabbix["requiredperformance"]      |
 | wcache_total      | zabbix["wcache", "values", "all"]  |
 | rcache_free       | zabbix["rcache", "buffer", "free"] | 
 | threads           | threads_num                        | 

Telnet to port 10051 on the Zabbix server and type "stats". All available stats will be returned, one per line, prepended with STAT and then terminated with an END.

# telnet localhost 10051
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
stats
STAT version 1.8.5 rev 19050
STAT boottime 1308513407
STAT uptime 29
STAT time 1308513436
STAT items_total 5089
STAT items_unsupported 9
STAT triggers_total 1050
STAT items_queue 2
STAT required_perf 2.03
STAT wcache_total 58
STAT rcache_free 8279480
STAT threads 26
END

Only three files have been modified...

• src/zabbix_server/poller/checks_internal.c
• src/zabbix_server/poller/checks_internal.h
• src/zabbix_server/trapper/trapper.c

1. ./configure --enable-server --with-mysql
2. make
3. make install

The original source code is available on SourceForge.