I have had a Zabbix Summit countdown timer as a standard Zabbix widget for several years now, with that blog post even being featured in the official Zabbix blog.
As my this years' talk will be about creating really weird custom Zabbix widgets by using LLMs, here's a sample of my mindset. This is a fully customizable Zabbix widget which acts as custom countdown to anything you want, but looks like a plane boarding pass.
Creating the module
This is almost the boring part. For those of you who have played around with the modern frontier models and tools such as Claude Code, you know that they nowadays can code you stuff mostly very effortlessly. Sure, there will be some back-and-forth prompting and sure, throwing the wildest ideas directly to production might not be the best idea ever, but still your little agentic AI buddy can achieve a lot while you sip your morning coffee.
Most of this module happened with just “Create me a custom Zabbix 7.0+ widget which provides me a countdown timer to any given point of time, but looks like a plane boarding pass. Widget should have proper configuration menu to customize passenger name, flight details and so forth.”
Widget configuration
Widget is very configurable with all these details and can be configured just like any other Zabbix widget.
Widget animation
When watching the widget live, the countdown timer ticks down like a Bond movie timer and the plane is animated.
Download the widget from my GitHub
You can download the widget from my GitHub repo. No guarantees it would work for you, but feel free to try out.
That's it for now. See you in Riga in about two weeks!
