Unlike any other Zabbix feature we described in this chapter, screens don't actually give you new or improved information about your monitored data. Pretty much anything that you can decide to put on a screen can be found somewhere else in Zabbix.

From maps and graphs, to trigger status and item data, all of this and more can be easily found by exploring the Monitoring tab of the web frontend.

But the point of gathering existing data on a Zabbix screen is precisely that you bring together related data, or different views of the same data so that you don't have to look for it around the frontend, and so that you can have a good overview of the status of your systems and see at a glance whether there are any problems within your infrastructure.

When you create a screen (Configuration | Screens | Create screen), you give it a name and a starting number of rows and columns. Don't worry too much about how many rows and columns you assign to a screen as you...