Grafana regex field matching ignores variables for Zabbix
Field with name matching regex cannot use dashboard variables for datasources such as Zabbix that lack SQL expressions.
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3 public reports · first reported 25 August 2026 · last reported 31 August 2026
What's going wrong
Users of Grafana report that the 'Field with name matching regex' override cannot use dashboard variables when the data source is Zabbix.
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