Zabbix Template: OS Linux diskstats

Monitoring template for Zabbix to get Linux disk statistics.

About

This is a self-contained monitoring template for Zabbix to get I/O statistics from Linux systems. The information will be taken from /proc/diskstats.

Examples

Items

Graph

Links

• /proc/diskstats
• I/O statistics fields

Known Issues

• If the file /proc/diskstats is larger than 64KB, then this template won't work anymore because of the limit of vfs.file.contents.
• The following items are available on Linux 4.18+. Disable them, if you use an older version.
  • discards completed
  • discards merged
  • sectors discarded
  • time spent discarding
• The following items are available on Linux 5.5+. Disable them, if you use an older version.
  • flush requests completed
  • time spent flushing