zbx-smartctl VS community-templates

At least Zabbix is intended for stats collection, server or desktop. Some features are integrated, others are implemented by the community, anything else could be extended personally.

On the client you install agent2 (new version) with plugins and on the server you can import templates https://github.com/zabbix/community-templates

I'm assuming you're using this template?

I think the SNMP it’s well configured… about the template, I’m not using any, the documentation I has following (https://github.com/zabbix/community-templates/tree/main/Network_Devices/template_meraki_dashboard_polling ) says it’s not necessary, because of the OIDs defined on the discovery rules… but if you suggest any template, I could check how it works, though. The meraki templates available are HTTP only, so I’d have to change SNMP to HTTP, and I was asked to do it with SNMP… (unless it can’t be done, of course)

I'm attempting to use Kube by Prom API template to pull container metrics into a Zabbix server.

You sure? They took share.zabbix.com exported the templates, build the template docs with a script so that all items/triggers etc are written down, and if there was a general description, that one is there as well...