Monitoring • Observability • Virtual Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring with Zabbix

Zabbix • Proxmox • Linux VMs • Windows VMs • CPU • Memory • Dashboards

Deployed Zabbix to centralize infrastructure monitoring across the lab, then connected each virtual machine so I could track system health, CPU usage, memory usage, and host performance from one dashboard.

Architecture & Components

Core components

—Zabbix Server
—Zabbix Agent on Windows and Linux VMs
—Custom dashboard widgets
—Proxmox host CPU and memory graphs

Project Visuals

Zabbix dashboard showing VM CPU and memory usage across infrastructure — Zabbix dashboard displaying real-time CPU and memory utilization across multiple virtual machines, including Fedora, Windows, and Proxmox hosts.

Zabbix monitoring graphs showing resource spikes during VM startup — Resource monitoring graphs capturing CPU, memory, and network spikes as virtual machines are powered on, demonstrating real-time observability of infrastructure behavior.

Challenges & Engineering Decisions

Multi-System Visibility

Problem

I needed one place to monitor resource usage across the lab instead of checking each VM individually.

Solution

Installed Zabbix, connected it to each virtual machine, and built a dashboard showing CPU and memory metrics alongside Proxmox host graphs.

Outcome

—Faster visibility into infrastructure health
—Centralized monitoring across multiple systems
—Improved ability to spot abnormal resource spikes

Reflection

This project improved the operational side of my lab by giving me centralized observability and a clearer view of how infrastructure performance changes across hosts and virtual machines.