Migration from Zabbix 5 to Zabbix 7 and new Grafana 11 server. Tags

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    Grafana 11 on Rocky Linux 9.4

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    Ingest some data from Zabbix 7 server

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

  • Zabbix Plugin

  • What happened?
    Lack of a tags drop down for Query Type “text”. I only see the now deprecated “Application”

  • What did you expect to happen?
    An option for tags so I can enter component: os

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?

  • Sure

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.

  • No

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?

  • No, I can’t find much specific to handling the new tags feature in Zabbix.

If I select Query Type Metrics, then Application is replaced by Tags. This doesn’t appear to be available under Query Type text.

On the original zabbix and grafana server I had a nice dashboard that gave a lot of useful linux server data. This particular panel just gave the OS version and the panel next to it will display the kernel version.

Here’s the original for example:


And the new one if I have Metrics selected which doesn’t give me the option to actually extract the correct item:

and here’s with Text selected and you can see it only has Application:

Not sure what the workaround is. Is there a way to update the text query type to get the tags option? Since the old one is Text I’m assuming that’s what will work on the new one.

Here’s my item in Zabbix as well. With Tags “component: os”

Thanks.

Actually my bad. It seems that I can get the tags if I input the correct value in Application. Perhaps that just requires an update as it’s confusing.

So I entered “component: os” and was able to see my Items under that tag in the drop down selection.