Enterprise monitoring on Zabbix and Grafana
See your whole estate — from the UPS to the database session — through one open-source monitoring engine and one dashboard, without the cost and maintenance of a self-managed Prometheus stack.
You cannot run what you cannot see. We build observability on Zabbix (collect, detect, alert) and Grafana (visualize), so incidents surface early, service levels are provable, and you are not paying to run a sprawl of monitoring components.
Business value — Lower monitoring cost and less downtime. One integrated engine instead of a stack of exporters, storage, and alerting to maintain — and one place to prove your service levels when someone asks.
Technical — Zabbix collects, baselines, and alerts across the facility, hardware, network, operating system, database, and application layers. Grafana puts Zabbix alongside every other source you already have — SQL, logs, cloud — on dashboards built for each audience.
What we do
One engine, one pane of glass
Zabbix — the engine
Full-stack collection across servers and network devices, with auto-discovery, templating, and built-in alerting.
Grafana — the single pane
Dashboards for every audience, unifying Zabbix with any other data source.
One estate, one console
Central Zabbix server with proxies at every site and DR location, so branches, DMZs, and remote data centers report into the same console over an encrypted, store-and-forward link.
Monitoring that stays up
The monitoring platform itself runs in a native high-availability cluster. Losing the node that watches everything is not an incident you should have twice.
What we monitor
- Facility & environment — UPS, PDUs, transfer switches, generators, precision cooling, and temperature, humidity, and leak sensors, via SNMP and Modbus gateways. The layer that takes a data center down completely, and the one most often unmonitored.
- Server hardware — out-of-band health through IPMI and Redfish: power supply redundancy, fan speeds, memory error counters, RAID battery state, and predictive disk failure — reported even when the operating system is not answering.
- Servers — Linux and Windows, via agents and agentless checks: filesystems and inodes, memory and swap, run queue, services and systemd units, patch level, time sync, and log patterns.
- Network — load balancers, switches, routers, and firewalls, via SNMP: interface errors and discards, optical transceiver levels, routing neighbour state, VPN tunnels, firewall session tables, and WAN latency and jitter.
- Storage & backup — SAN and NAS arrays, capacity, latency, cache and controller failover, fabric switches, replication lag to the DR site, and nightly backup and snapshot success.
- Virtualization & cloud — VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and KVM clusters down to datastore and snapshot age; Kubernetes and container platforms; AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud where the estate is hybrid.
- Databases — Oracle including RAC, ASM, and Data Guard, plus SAP HANA, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL: tablespace growth, blocking sessions, wait events, and replication health — not just “the port is open”.
- Middleware & applications — WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss, and IIS; JVM heap and garbage collection; message queues; SAP instances; Oracle E-Business Suite concurrent managers.
- Services & user experience — HTTP and API checks, certificate expiry, DNS, NTP, and directory services, plus synthetic transactions run from outside the data center, so you see what the user sees before the user calls.
- Batch & business processes — scheduled jobs, interfaces, and queue depths. The things that fail silently at 02:00 and are discovered at 09:00.
- Capacity & forecasting — disk, memory, rack power, and cooling headroom, trended and forecast, so capacity is replaced on a purchase order rather than on an incident ticket.
- Alerting & dashboards — thresholds, dependency-aware escalation, maintenance windows, and Grafana dashboards for every audience.
How the two work together
Zabbix knows the state. Grafana tells the story.
Zabbix is the system of record
Every host, threshold, dependency, escalation path, and maintenance window lives in one place. When something goes red, Zabbix already knows whether it matters, who to wake, and whether the change was planned.
Grafana is the correlation layer
A UPS load curve next to database wait events next to application response time — on one screen. Grafana reads Zabbix alongside your other sources, so a question that spans three teams no longer takes three tools to answer.
Dashboards per audience
A NOC wall board that reads at four metres. An engineering view deep enough to work an incident from. An SLA and availability view for management. Same data, three audiences, no argument about whose number is right.
Discover once, monitor forever
Auto-discovery and templates mean a new server, switch, or database inherits its full monitoring the day it is racked — no ticket, no forgotten host, no blind spot introduced by growth.
History that stays affordable
Raw history for troubleshooting, compressed trends for the years of capacity evidence a budget cycle needs — on TimescaleDB or ClickHouse, on storage you already own, with no per-metric fee waiting at the renewal.
Evidence, not opinion
Scheduled reports and availability figures drawn from the same data that raised the alert. When an SLA is questioned, the answer is a number with a timestamp.
Proven in production
Data centers we monitor
Government · Justice ministry
Monitoring the data center on Zabbix and Grafana
One flexible open-source stack across load balancers, switches, routers, firewalls, and Linux and Windows servers — replacing a multi-part Prometheus setup and cutting its running cost.
Government · Prosecution service
Data-center monitoring, one pane of glass
The same Zabbix and Grafana combination across the whole estate — flexible enough to cover every layer, and markedly cheaper than the Prometheus deployment it replaced.