In this chapter, we first looked at configuring and sharing the new Zabbix dashboards and then learned to combine graphs, maps, and other data on a single page by using screens. Screens are able to hold a lot of different elements, including the statistics of currently-active triggers, and even history and any custom page, by using the URL element. The URL element also allows us to create a screen that contains graphs showing different time periods. The screens are available on both the global and template levels.

Especially useful for unattended displays, slideshows allow us to cycle through screens. We can set the default delay and override it for individual screens. To include a single map or graph in a slideshow, we still have to create a screen containing that map or graph.

In the next chapter, we will try to gather data using more advanced methods. We'll look at reusing already-collected data with calculated and aggregate items, running custom scripts with external checks, and monitoring log files. We will also try out the two most popular ways to get custom data in Zabbix—user parameters on the agent side and the great zabbix_sender utility.