This topic is related to template development from scratch, bulk data input, and a lot of dependable items having different preprocessing steps each.
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With new preprocessing steps added to Zabbix in nearly every release, it became obvious that it’s impossible to predict every business case, so we had to come up with a universal solution. This, in turn, raised an important question – which embedded scripting language/engine to use.