Configuring and sharing dashboards

The new dashboard in Zabbix has improved a lot over the years, and the idea of Zabbix SIA is that the dashboard should be a single piece of information that gathers all kind of information. It's probably inspired by the success of things such as Grafana.

Let's take a look at the dashboard more closely. Since we've already seen how to configure some of the widgets, let's take a look how we can configure our dashboard and share it with others.

Configuring the dashboard

The configuration of our dashboard can be done very easily by clicking in the top-right on the Edit dashboard button: 

By clicking this button, we arrive at some sort of configuration mode for our dashboard, and when we move our mouse over one of the widgets, we see that a box is drawn around the widget:

Moving our mouse over one of these lines allows us to change the size of the widget. Moving our mouse away to the middle will change our mouse cursor into four arrows, which indicates that we are...