Interface filters, KPI filters, etc

Grafana Zabbix
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Hello All,

I am trying to have interface filters or KPI based filtering in the dashboard.
These are standard network KPI statistics. But i cannot filter based on interface names, kpi names, etc.

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    Grafana v7.5.17 (84411794f3)
    RHEL 9
    Zabbix 6.0

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    We have standard network dashboard for Cisco devices listing various KPI’s like packets sent, packets received, packets dropped, packet errors, etc.

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    Since we have lot of interfaces, we would ideally like to have interface selection option available.
    If its possible, we would also like to have KPI selection option like packets sent, etc.

  • How are you trying to achieve it?
    I have zabbix 6 data source, we have some older dashboards which can filter interfaces using the query -
    {Switch}{$Host}{*}
    where $Host is a drop down list of all network devices
    but it doesnt work and i am guessing its because zabbix api were upgraded from version 4 and version 6.

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  • What happened?
    Please see attached error message.

  • What did you expect to happen?
    I was expecting interface names in the filter.

I also did lot of search, but i did not find any use cases where they were using interface filters.
Please suggest if there is some solution, that i missed.

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What version of the zabbix plugin are you currently using?

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I tried with these 2 zabbix plugin versions.

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Your main problem may be an older version of Grafana, which may be causing this problem.

You can try to make a backup of the database and in a new instance of Grafana, more updated and with the newer version of the plugin, test if this problem occurs.