Handy Tips #6: Organize your dashboards and create slideshows with dashboard pages

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Technical Writer at Zabbix

October 7, 2021

Create clean multipage dashboards, run them as slideshows, share dashboards with specific users, and stay in control of your monitoring data. Previously, Zabbix had two different functionalities – Screens and Dashboards. With Zabbix 5.4 Screens have been completely replaced by Dashboards. In Zabbix 5.4, Dashboards support multiple new functionalities: No need to switch between screens […]

Create clean multipage dashboards, run them as slideshows, share dashboards with specific users, and stay in control of your monitoring data.

Previously, Zabbix had two different functionalities – Screens and Dashboards. With Zabbix 5.4 Screens have been completely replaced by Dashboards.

In Zabbix 5.4, Dashboards support multiple new functionalities:

No need to switch between screens and dashboards – now everything is in the same place
Dashboards now support multiple pages and slideshows
All template-level screens have been converted to template dashboards

Check out the video to learn how to create a multipage Dashboard

How to configure a multi-page dashboard:

Open a dashboard and press the Edit dashboard button
Click on the arrow next to the Add button and select Add page
Enter a name for the new page, for example, MySQL servers
Click on an empty space to add a widget
Select the first Dashboard page
Press the three dots in any widget’s corner, then select Copy
Select the second Dashboard page
Click on an empty space and select Paste widget
Press the three dots next to the page name and select Properties.
Enter a new page name and press Apply
Open the page properties menu and set the Page display period
Press the gear icon in the top right corner
Set the Default page display period
Press Apply and the slideshow should start automatically
Use the Stop slideshow button to stop a slideshow

Tips and best practices:

You can run a slideshow if a Dashboard contains two or more pages
It is possible to copy a whole Dashboard page
Template level dashboards are generated for a host, once the template is linked to the host
Host dashboard widgets can be copied to other host dashboards of the same template