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Integration with Zabbix

Zabbix can be used as an external monitoring solution for Apache CloudStack.

About Zabbix

Zabbix LLC is a company based in Latvia that develops and supports Zabbix, a leading open-source monitoring platform. Zabbix provides agent-based and agentless monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and automation capabilities for physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

Zabbix Integration with Apache CloudStack

Zabbix can be used as an external monitoring solution for Apache CloudStack. Integration is typically achieved through CloudStack SNMP traps, API checks, or agent-based monitoring of infrastructure components such as Management Servers, hypervisor hosts, and system VMs. This allows operators to centralize alerts and performance visibility in Zabbix, while CloudStack remains the orchestration layer.

Pros

  • Mature and widely adopted monitoring platform
  • Flexible integration via SNMP, API, or agent
  • Supports real-time alerting on CloudStack events
  • Strong ecosystem for infrastructure monitoring
  • Can complement CloudStack’s internal alerting

Cons

  • No native or officially supported CloudStack plugin
  • Requires external configuration and scripting
  • Integration depth depends on operator customisation
implementation

Ease of Implementation

Moderate setup effort using SNMP traps, API checks, or agent-based monitoring.
use

Ease of Use

Easy for administrators familiar with Zabbix dashboards and alerting workflows.
total cost

Total Cost of Ownership

Low TCO due to the open-source license and extensive community support.
support

Support

Zabbix provides Community support through forums and documentation, and Enterprise support through commercial subscriptions with SLAs and consultancy.
integrations

Supported Integrations

  • Apache CloudStack SNMP alerts
  • CloudStack API (custom checks)
  • Hypervisor host monitoring (KVM, VMware, XCP-ng)
  • Network and storage devices via SNMP
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