Using variables inside of Zabbix queries

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I am sure this is just because I am noob, but i cannot figure this out:

I am trying to set up a dashboard based on Zabbix data populated from a Proxmox Cluster.

The Proxmox template is not creating individual hosts for each node but rather represent them inside the data structure.

So I cannot reference a node directly as a host but inside of the item names. So when I want to show the uptime of some element coming from the proxmox node, it looks like this:
Node [<node-name>/<VM-name>]: Uptime, so I am having like 50 uptime entries for each node and VM inside those nodes.

My issue is, that apparently I cannot reference a variable as part of the item, only just the whole item. So i can do $node , but cannot do Node [$node]: Uptime.

The Zabbix data source does not seem to have a code query editor where I could maybe add this.

So what am I missing here to set up those queries properly?

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Helo @molnarti
try in Item this… you will need to escape your regex using \.

Node \[$node\]: Uptime

the $node variable will be the Server variable that you defined in the print variable you sent.

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doesnt seem to work unfortunately…

also judging from the color of the text the variable embedded into the string is not recognized

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when we use regex, we need to pass the / at the beginning and at the end,

/Node [$node]: Uptime/

try without using tag too.

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turns out i was just stupid and used forward slash / instead of back slash \ as you suggested. so its working now, thanks a lot !!!

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