Last year, I did blog about monZphere's custom Zabbix widgets a few times. For those who don't know, monZphere is a company specialized for building custom Zabbix modules and widgets. Some of the modules are free for all of us and can be found from monZphere's GitHub page, some do cost money, but oh boy how their modules do change Zabbix interface and the ways you can use it.
Note that this post is not a commercial, I merely have access to monZphere's demo environment and I share some observations here. I want to raise the awareness of these excellent guys. Here's a quick look to few of their modules. There's more than the ones I cover today -- immediately after logging into monZphere's Zabbix, any Zabbix user can notice that something is very different in this Zabbix.
Storage growth analysis
We all know the old truth: regardless of your storage size, it's always near its maximum capacity. But what's your storage status? How you have it in total, how much is in use and maybe most interestingly, how fast it is getting consumed? The storage growth module gives you that answer easily.
I like how the module goes straight to the point, but then if you want some more details, just click on Details button and you get some extra information.
Rightsizing Recommendations
Getting a storage overview is nice, but how about the other aspects of your infrastructure? Rightsizing Recommendations module gives you just that, telling you if you could run your system with fewer (v)CPUs or less RAM.
Again, by clicking on View Insights, you get some additional information.
Network topology
Something that Zabbix lacks is the built-in automatic network maps. During Zabbix Summit 2024 we saw several options how to get fancy automatic maps, but monZphere takes things one step closer to native implementation. Filter the maps by your host groups and get something like this.
Alerts monitoring
Alerts Monitoring transforms your usual Zabbix Problems view to visual feast with added useful information such as average alert resolution time and the word cloud.
If you thought that's all, no no, this good boy keeps on scrolling and scrolling.
That's it for now. I think I'll now go and grab some of the GitHub modules just to test them on my What's up, home? environment.
