A powerful table widget with advanced functionality for the Zabbix dashboard.

RME Table Training and Demonstration Videos

• The branches of this widget correspond to the matching Zabbix branch.
  Please clone the branch version that matches your Zabbix version.
• Available Versions:
  • 7.0
  • 7.2
  • 7.4

Zabbix is an incredibly powerful monitoring and observability platform, but one of the biggest complaints has historically been the usability of the UI and visualizations.

While the UI works well for developers and administrators of Zabbix, end-users often struggle to extract meaningful metrics/data.

• Zabbix 6.4 introduced custom modules and widgets.
• Zabbix 7.0 added the communication framework for dashboards — a crucial step forward.

This widget was created to fill the gap in a flexible, powerful table visualizations for dashboards.

Even though Zabbix introduced TopItems, many features were missing to create a truly powerful experience. That’s why this widget exists.

• Originally cloned from the TopItems widget for its solid foundation.
• Significantly expanded with new features and enhancements.
• Goal:
  • Provide immediate community value.
  • Spark interest in further improvement.
  • Possibly gain Zabbix’s attention to integrate this natively.

• Continue polishing bugs and usability issues.
• Ongoing code cleanup (move logic from JavaScript → PHP + CSS).
• Continue addressing community feedback in order to make this the premier Zabbix dashboard table visualization.

✔️ Layouts

• 3 Column: True Top/Bottom N table (metric name | host | value).
• Column per pattern: One column per configured item pattern. Supports grouping by item tags as well as {HOST.HOST} to enable a similar layout to Horizontal.
  • As such, it is very important now to make heavy use of tags on your items to make maximum use of this widget and truly unlock its power.

✔️ Communication Framework

• Receives broadcasted inputs of host groups, hosts, and as of recently, items.
• Broadcasts hosts and items by clicking cells.
• Fully leverages Zabbix dynamic parameters framework.

✔️ Advanced Table Behavior

• Sortable columns (correctly handles B, bps, s, unixtime, etc.).
• Automatic pagination after 75 rows.
• Column filtering (All columns):
  • Filter types: Contains, Equals, Starts/Ends with, Wildcard, Not Contains, Regex, Boolean Expression and a variety of numeric filters for fully numeric columns.
  • Green funnel = filter active in that column.
• Footer row with Sum or Average.
• Column-specific overrides for aggregations (Sum, Avg, Min, Max) that is applied per table cell.
• Ability to customize how value mapped values are displayed.
• Column display option of URL added to allow for items represented as URLs to be clickable.
• URL display option allows for complete customization of the display text and generating fully customized URLs.
• Customizable item headers using Zabbix built-in macros.
• Configuration control of autoselection of first host and item table cell for instant broadcasting.
• Reset row capability (broadcasts hostid 000000 to reset linked widgets).
• Support for aggregations across multiple hosts/items within a single table cell using Aggregate all hosts option.
• Multi-cell selection (Ctrl + click, Shift + click) → broadcasts all selected itemids.
• Groupings-only mode: Use the widget as a dashboard filter for other tables by checkboxing Show groupings only.
• Bar gauge proportions in rows/columns as well as tooltip showing ratio to other table cells as a percentage.
• Aggregate by item groupings (not just hosts) for high-level overviews → drill down by connecting a table panel to another table panel.
• Ability to download table data into CSV format from the actions context menu in the widget header.
• Configurable and toggleable lazy loading button to allow users to hide and show data dynamically.

1. Clone this repo into ui/modules/
   (default: /usr/share/zabbix/ui/modules/ for RPM installations)
2. Navigate: Zabbix → Administration → General → Modules
3. Click Scan directory
4. Enable Table widget

• Code cleanup (reduce JS reliance, move logic to PHP + CSS).
• Expand documentation.

High-level milestones and upcoming goals.

• Draggable columns in configuration UI.
• Style improvements.
• Performance improvements allowing to scale the table to 10's of thousands of rows with 100s of thousands of table cells with minimal lag.
• Performance improvements: migrate client-side code to PHP backend.