Build Custom Zabbix Dashboards with Python and ECharts

Zabbix is an enterprise‑class, web‑based open‑source monitoring solution that can monitor various network parameters and ensure server security. It consists of a Zabbix server and optional Zabbix agents installed on monitored hosts.

The tutorial introduces the Zabbix‑Python integration without revisiting basic Zabbix installation or configuration, focusing on the pyzabbix library, its installation via pip install pyzabbix, and basic data retrieval operations.

First, the Zabbix version is fetched via the API, confirming the environment runs version 3.0.8. Then the host groups are queried using hostgroup.get, demonstrating how to filter output fields such as groupid and name.

Next, the tutorial shows how to obtain hosts within the "Zabbix server" group, extracting only the host hostid and name. Similar techniques apply to retrieve user groups and users.

The guide proceeds to fetch items (monitoring metrics) for a specific host (e.g., host ID 10084) and selects an item (e.g., CPU load over the last 15 minutes) to retrieve its recent values using item.get and history.get. The returned timestamps can be converted to readable dates with Python’s time module.

Finally, the collected data is visualized with ECharts, a pure JavaScript chart library supporting line, bar, pie, and many other chart types. The tutorial outlines how to pass the processed data from a Django backend to the frontend and render a line chart displaying the monitoring metric.

Throughout, screenshots illustrate each step, from API calls to chart rendering, providing a practical example of customizing Zabbix monitoring pages using Python and ECharts.