Zabbix to monitor a third party application

[azoghbi]

Hi,

We are currently looking for a monitoring solution to help us monitor an application that we develop. Zabbix is in the list of tools we are studying, and I would like your advice on the following:

- Our application consists of a set of services that store KPI metrics (e.g. cpu usage, usage statistics etc) in the database (Oracle).
- These services can also send KPI metrics in any other format (maybe directly to the Zabbix agent?) if needed
- We would like to have real-time monitoring (or as close to real-time as possible)

What would be the best way to implement Zabbix in this sense ? Is it through direct DB monitoring or would it be better to send messages to the Zabbix agent (if at all possible)? Or is there any other way to read custom third party metrics and display them in Zabbix ?

[HullZabbix]

I'm not fully understanding your question, but for info, you can use the zabbix sender to send data directly to the zabbix server. This data can be in a range of formats - including performance metrics.

We need to monitor the performance of virtual instances in the cloud and thus we read data from csv tables and use the zabbix sender to get this data to the zabbix server.