Sand Fox (Posts about zabbix)https://sandfox.me/tags/zabbix.xml2026-08-09T23:30:47ZAnton SmirnovNikolasystemd in Zabbixhttps://sandfox.me/linux/systemd-zabbix.html2015-01-17T12:00:00Z2015-01-17T12:00:00ZAnton Smirnov<p>If you use Zabbix to monitor your servers you may want to monitor
systemd services with it especially if you have some custom services.</p>
<p>These simple checks were enough for me:</p>
<div class="code"><pre class="code sh"><a id="rest_code_8d491459d00a4437b97a17acc3f4783f-1" name="rest_code_8d491459d00a4437b97a17acc3f4783f-1" href="https://sandfox.me/linux/systemd-zabbix.html#rest_code_8d491459d00a4437b97a17acc3f4783f-1"></a>systemd.unit.is-active<span class="o">[</span><unit<span class="w"> </span>name><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># 1 if unit is active, 0 if inactive</span>
<a id="rest_code_8d491459d00a4437b97a17acc3f4783f-2" name="rest_code_8d491459d00a4437b97a17acc3f4783f-2" href="https://sandfox.me/linux/systemd-zabbix.html#rest_code_8d491459d00a4437b97a17acc3f4783f-2"></a>systemd.unit.is-failed<span class="o">[</span><unit<span class="w"> </span>name><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># 1 if unit if in failed state, 0 if not</span>
<a id="rest_code_8d491459d00a4437b97a17acc3f4783f-3" name="rest_code_8d491459d00a4437b97a17acc3f4783f-3" href="https://sandfox.me/linux/systemd-zabbix.html#rest_code_8d491459d00a4437b97a17acc3f4783f-3"></a>systemd.unit.is-enabled<span class="o">[</span><unit<span class="w"> </span>name><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># 1 if unit is enabled, 0 if not</span>
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<p>It's very simple. Just place <code class="docutils literal">userparameter_systemd.conf</code> to your zabbix config dir
(usually <code class="docutils literal">/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf.d</code>) with the following content:</p>
<div class="code"><pre class="code ini"><a id="rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-1" name="rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-1" href="https://sandfox.me/linux/systemd-zabbix.html#rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-1"></a><span class="c1"># checks to determine if specified unit is active, failed or enabled</span>
<a id="rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-2" name="rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-2" href="https://sandfox.me/linux/systemd-zabbix.html#rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-2"></a><span class="na">UserParameter</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">systemd.unit.is-active[*],systemctl is-active --quiet '$1' && echo 1 || echo 0</span>
<a id="rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-3" name="rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-3" href="https://sandfox.me/linux/systemd-zabbix.html#rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-3"></a><span class="na">UserParameter</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">systemd.unit.is-failed[*],systemctl is-failed --quiet '$1' && echo 1 || echo 0</span>
<a id="rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-4" name="rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-4" href="https://sandfox.me/linux/systemd-zabbix.html#rest_code_dfba6a1f31024f5ab508ba04b42d2b42-4"></a><span class="na">UserParameter</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">systemd.unit.is-enabled[*],systemctl is-enabled --quiet '$1' && echo 1 || echo 0</span>
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