Zabbix Speedtest template

Dependencies

⚠️ Warning

You need to install Ookla's version of speedtest-cli and NOT the unofficial python tool.

Installation (Generic x86_64)

Install speedtest-cli
Create /etc/zabbix/bin: mkdir -p /etc/zabbix/bin
Copy zbx-speedtest.sh to /etc/zabbix/bin
Make it executable: chmod +x /etc/zabbix/bin/zbx-speedtest.sh
Install the systemd service and timer: cp systemd/{zabbix-speedtest.service,zabbix-speedtest.timer} /etc/systemd/system
Start and enable the timer: systemctl enable --now zabbix-speedtest.timer
Import the zabbix-agent config: cp zabbix_agentd.d/speedtest.conf /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.d
Restart zabbix-agent: systemctl restart zabbix-agent
Import template_speedtest.xml on your Zabbix server

Installation (Debian/Ubuntu)

Install speedtest-cli
Create /etc/zabbix/bin: mkdir -p /etc/zabbix/bin
Copy zbx-speedtest-debian.sh to /etc/zabbix/bin/zbx-speedtest.sh
Make it executable: chmod +x /etc/zabbix/bin/zbx-speedtest.sh
Install the systemd service and timer: cp systemd/{zabbix-speedtest-debian.service,zabbix-speedtest.timer} /etc/systemd/system; mv /etc/systemd/system/zabbix-speedtest{-debian,}.service
Start and enable the timer: systemctl enable --now zabbix-speedtest.timer
Import the zabbix-agent config: cp zabbix_agentd.d/speedtest.conf /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.d
Restart zabbix-agent: systemctl restart zabbix-agent
Import template_speedtest.xml on your Zabbix server

Installation (OpenWRT)

Install speedtest-cli by placing the binary in your $PATH
Copy zbx-speedtest.sh to /etc/zabbix_agentd.conf.d/bin
Make it executable: chmod +x /etc/zabbix_agentd.conf.d/bin/zbx-speedtest.sh
Import the zabbix-agent config: cp zabbix_agentd.d/speedtest.openwrt.conf /etc/zabbix_agentd.conf.d
Restart zabbix-agent: /etc/init.d/zabbix-agentd restart
Install the cron job: crontab -e -> Add the content of systemd/speedtest.crontab
Import template_speedtest.xml on your Zabbix server

Installation (Docker)

Speedtest in a container

Check out pschmitt/speedtest:cron on Docker Hub

Zabbix-agent

You must mount zbx-speedtest.sh inside your zabbix-agent container
It also needs to have access to speedtest data volume

Below is an example docker-compose.yaml.

NOTE: pschmitt/zabbix-agent2 contains jq which is required by zbx-speedtest.sh.

---
version: "3.7"
services:
  speedtest:
    image: pschmitt/speedtest:cron
    volumes:
      - "./data/speedtest:/data"
    environment:
      - INTERVAL=300

  zabbix-agent:
    image: pschmitt/zabbix-agent2:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    hostname: ${HOSTNAME}
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host
    pid: host
    volumes:
      - "./config/bin:/zabbix/bin:ro"
      - "./config/zabbix_agentd.d:/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d:ro"
      - "./data/speedtest:/data/speedtest:ro"
    environment:
      - ZBX_HOSTNAMEITEM=system.hostname
      - ZBX_SERVER_HOST=zabbix.example.com

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