We previously configured units for some items, using values such as B or ms. While the effect was visible in the monitoring section quite easily, there are some subtle differences in the handling of different units.
Units is a free-form field. You can type anything in there, but some units will change their behavior when data is displayed:
- B/Bps: By default, when applying K, M, G, T and other unit prefixes, Zabbix will use a multiplier of 1,000. If the unit is set to B or Bps, the multiplier used will be changed to 1,024.
- s: An incoming value in seconds will be translated to a human-readable format.
- uptime: An incoming value in seconds will be translated to a human-readable format.
- unixtime: An incoming Unix timestamp will be translated to a human-readable format.
Interestingly, for our ICMP ping item, we did not use any of these; we used ms instead. The reason is that...