How we unified monitoring using Zabbix with Alza.cz
Since 2020, we have been helping Alza.cz consolidate heterogeneous monitoring into Zabbix. The project is being carried out in close coordination with the monitoring, operations, infrastructure, and product management teams with the aim of speeding up responses and clarifying oversight of the environment.
Client: Alza.cz
Services: E-commerce
About Alza.cz
Alza.cz is the largest Czech online store. It operates a network of 66 stores and more than 4,000 pickup boxes in Central and Eastern Europe. It actively monitors over 6,000 devices and collects over ten thousand values per second using Zabbix.
Solution
Our role consisted mainly of technical management and architecture: we designed suitable solutions and integration procedures and carried out key PoCs. From the very beginning, the implementation was carried out together with the customer’s internal teams: we planned together, implemented key parts, and continuously validated the results.
From the outset, the common goal was to actively involve Alza not only in the project, but also technically — we continuously transferred our know-how in the form of workshops and certified training courses. Our role thus naturally shifted to activities with higher added value: expanding monitoring coverage (new integration scenarios, metrics, and notifications across infrastructure and business processes) and targeted interventions in the architecture with an emphasis on scalability, high availability, and resilience to outages.
As a result, Alza now has robust monitoring of its infrastructure, sales processes, and warehouses, as well as a functional early warning system that automatically delivers key information to the responsible persons. The solution is designed as high-availability (HA) and is one of the critical elements of their infrastructure.
Ongoing collaboration
In our ongoing collaboration, we are focusing on Alza boxes. We helped the client set up monitoring of theft attempts, hardware and camera functionality, and temperature. Agile development and reliability improvements are still ongoing.
3 systems
Replaced by a single centralized solution Zabbix
25,000
Monitoring expanded from 3,500 values per second
5 years
Long-term, active, and satisfying cooperation
40
Total number of certifications obtained
Libor Matýsek
Monitoring Engineer, Alza.cz
“It has always been great to work with Tomáš or Lojza. They are professionals you can rely on. I appreciate their approach to projects and the quality of their Zabbix training. I can recommend InitMAX and we will be happy to continue working together in the future.”
