Installing a Zabbix Template and Configuring Macros

Step 1: Download and Import Zabbix Template

1. Download the Zabbix template from here.
2. Open the Zabbix dashboard in your web browser and navigate to Configuration => Templates.
3. Click on the Import button.
4. In the import page, choose the Zabbix template file you just downloaded.
5. Click on the Import button again to finish importing the template.

Step 2: Fill out Macros

This Template is made to be added to the individual MinIO Hosts.

Getting the MinIO Prometheus Access Key

1. Setup the CLI tool Minio Admin Client like in the docs (https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc-admin.html)
2. The Access key will be the same for the whole cluster. So this will be needed once per cluster.
3. Run the following command mc admin config get [alias] prometheus

Filling out the Macros

1. Open The host in Zabbix
2. Go To The tab Macros => Inherited and host macros
3. Fill out the following macro fields with the appropriate values:

• {$MINIO.DNS.NAME} (MinIO Nodename | For Node Specific metrics | based on node{1...4}.example.net)
• {$MINIO.DNS.WILDCARD} (Default: node* | Based on the upper ULR structure Too)
• {$S3.DRIVES.PER.ERASURE.SET}(Default: 16 )
• {$S3.MINIO.ACCESS.KEY} (Prometheus Endpoint Key)
• {$S3.MINIO.API.URL} (The Prometheus endpoint Url . Can be the Load-balancer )
• {$S3.MINIO.MAX.DEAD.DRIVES} (Note: Legacy not needed)
• {$S3.MINIO.PARITY} (Default: 4)