title: Is logstash zabbix output just for sending events?
body: <p>I want to send values like CPU etc to zabbix using the zabbix output plugin, but i can't seem to get it working. After some googling I start to wonder if the plugin is actually for sending event and not values? 
  My logstash config is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>input{
     rabbitmq{
  #all needed rabbit values
     add_field =&gt; { "host_name" =&gt; "Zabbix server"
                    "key" =&gt; "CPU idle time"
                    "zabbix_value" =&gt;"5"
     }
    }
  }
  output{
    zabbix{
        zabbix_host =&gt; "host_name"
        zabbix_key =&gt;"key"
        zabbix_value =&gt; "zabbix_value"
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My error is <strong>zabbix server at localhost rejected all items sent</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>We can't use zabbix agents since we are not allowed to open any ports and we want the values to be send from monitored machine to rabbitmq and then be picked up by logstash and the be pushed to zabbix server. Is it possible?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance</p>