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title: "Zabbix annotations | Grafana Plugins documentation"
description: "Display Zabbix problems and events as annotations on Grafana panels."
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# Zabbix annotations

Annotations overlay event markers on graph panels, letting you correlate Zabbix problems and recovery events with metric data. When a Zabbix trigger fires or recovers, the annotation appears as a vertical line on the graph at the time the event occurred.

## Before you begin

- [Configure the Zabbix data source](./configure/).
- Understand [Grafana annotations](/docs/grafana/v6.3.2/dashboards/build-dashboards/annotate-visualizations/).

## Add an annotation query

To add Zabbix annotations to a dashboard:

1. Open a dashboard and click **Dashboard settings** (gear icon).
2. Click **Annotations** in the left menu.
3. Click **Add annotation query**.
4. Select the Zabbix data source.
5. Configure the annotation query fields described in the following sections.
6. Click **Apply**.

## Annotation query fields

Use the following fields to filter which Zabbix problems appear as annotations.

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| Field            | Description                                                                                                         |
|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Group**        | Filter by host group. Select from the drop-down or type a custom value. Supports regex and template variables.      |
| **Host**         | Filter by host. Select from the drop-down or type a custom value. Supports regex and template variables.            |
| **Application**  | Filter by application. Select from the drop-down or type a custom value. Supports regex and template variables.     |
| **Problem**      | Filter by problem name. Type a text string to match against trigger descriptions.                                   |
| **Min severity** | Show only events at or above this severity level: Not classified, Information, Warning, Average, High, or Disaster. |

## Annotation options

These toggle options control which events appear and what information is displayed.

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| Option                       | Description                                                                |
|------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Show OK events**           | Display recovery (OK) events as annotations in addition to problem events. |
| **Hide acknowledged events** | Exclude problems that have been acknowledged in Zabbix.                    |
| **Show hostname**            | Include the hostname in the annotation text.                               |

## Example: monitor high-severity events

To annotate a dashboard with only high-severity and disaster-level problems from your production servers:

1. Set **Group** to the host group containing your production servers (for example, `Production`).
2. Set **Host** to `/.*/` to include all hosts in the group.
3. Set **Min severity** to **High**.
4. Enable **Show OK events** to see both when problems start and when they resolve.
5. Enable **Show hostname** to identify which host triggered each event.

## Next steps

- [Build queries with the Zabbix query editor](./query-editor/)
- [Set up alerting rules](./alerting/)