Overview

The following items types are currently offered by Zabbix:

• Zabbix agent checks

• SNMP traps

• Simple checks

• Zabbix internal checks

• Telnet checks

• Trapper items

• Dependent items

• Prometheus checks

Details for all item types are included in the subpages of this section. Even though item types offer a lot of options for data gathering, there are further options through or loadable modules.

Some checks are performed by Zabbix server alone (as agent-less monitoring) while others require Zabbix agent or even Zabbix Java gateway (with JMX monitoring).

If a particular item type requires a particular interface (like an IPMI check needs an IPMI interface on the host) that interface must exist in the host definition.

All items that return text (character, log, text types of information) can return whitespace only as well (where applicable) setting the return value to an empty string (supported since 2.0).