Monitoring Hyper-V with Zabbix

Zabbix is a opensource monitoring solution, which helps you keep track of the health of your IT systems.

You can host it on your own infrastructure or use one of the many hosted zabbix SAAS offerings.

A very helpful feature is, to be able to write your own monitoring scripts and integrate them with dashboards and alerts.

Beside a core set of templates and scripts, there also exists a big list of templates and github repositories, which help you monitor almost everything.

If you don't find the perfect template for your use case, then you can still write your own scripts and templates and then integrate them in your Zabbix infrastructure.

For VMWare there is very good support out of the box (At least for the commercial VMWare products).

For Hyper-V from Microsoft there is no such support built it.

For this reason, I have contributed to a project, which was adding hyper-v monitoring to Zabbix.

As the project owner did give up the project, I did tyke over the project and did smal improvements over the years. But as the requirements did start to rise, I had to rewrite the whole thing from scratch.

This way I could start with a clean base and also use all the new features added in Zabbix 4.x - 7.0. Two topics have been very usefull in that part: Calculated/Dependent items and the JSON + JS post- and pre- processing.

The result is a brand new monitoring script and associated templates for Zabbix 7.x and up. You can find the solutions in this github repository.

If you use Zabbix and Hyper-V, give it a try and comment on this post or give feedback via github. I'm interested to hear, what works good and where I could improve the monitoring.

On a technical note, I did heavily use Claude for this new implementation, I will follow up with my learnings of the AI usage for this scenario. As always, there is good and there is bad to tell about, just stay tuned for the next article.