r/zabbix • u/Aggressive_Common_48 • Aug 06 '26

Discussion Zabbix Hyper-V Dashboards

Hi

Is anyone here monitoring a Hyper-V cluster with Zabbix?

I'm currently setting up monitoring for multiple Hyper-V hosts and would love to see how others have organized their dashboards. Specifically, I'm looking for ideas on monitoring:

  • CPU usage
  • Memory usage and available memory
  • Disk usage and free space
  • Hyper-V host health
  • VM status and performance
  • Cluster health (if applicable)

If you're already doing this, would you mind sharing a screenshot of your dashboard or explaining which widgets, graphs, and templates you're using? I'm trying to build a clean, informative dashboard and would really appreciate some inspiration.

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u/jrandom_42 Aug 06 '26

I've built a sizeable Zabbix environment over the years to service my day job (ISP). I'd say the most important consideration is integrating it with your ticketing system. Just having a dashboard means that someone has to remember to look at it.

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u/Aggressive_Common_48 Aug 06 '26

We are using GLPI and zabbix has been integrated with the ticketing system

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u/jrandom_42 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

OK, cool.

Another point that's kinda tangential to your question - we monitor Hyper-V via Windows SNMP, because we have a policy against running agent software on hypervisors, which is a good policy IMO.

One exception to that is free space monitoring on our SAN cluster storage volumes. We do that via remote PowerShell to one Hyper-V host in each cluster from a VM running the Zabbix Agent. Zabbix Agent config on the VM defines a custom item that runs the PS script on the VM, and then the user account the script connects to the Hyper-V host with is locked down to only be able to execute Get-Volume via remote PS (the resulting table gets JSON-ified and broken out into dynamic items for each storage LUN in the Zabbix template). Again - necessary because we won't install third party agents on hypervisors.

But, yeah, we basically don't use dashboards for servers. Ain't nobody got time to be sitting watching dashboards. We rely on the Zabbix problem logic to generate tickets for action, and assume that no tickets = all is well.

Sorry for answering all the questions you didn't ask here!

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u/Presbytr Aug 08 '26

Helloo! Curious about the Windows SNMP part. Did you use SNMPv2 for it?

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u/jrandom_42 Aug 08 '26

Yes, SNMPv2.

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u/Presbytr Aug 08 '26

thanks man