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24th
August 2026
Why Monitorpack Chooses PostgreSQL and Power BI RDL
At Monitorpack, we build with a 10-year proactivity horizon to protect our clients from predatory ecosystem shifts. The open-source community is actively organizing a mass exodus away from Oracle's commercial asphyxiation of MySQL. High-profile shifts—like Zabbix moving to stricter AGPLv3 licensing have signaled that community neutrality is paramount. Industry leaders and enterprise giants agree that PostgreSQL has definitively won the data layer battle PostgreSQL has definitively won the data layer battle due to its total cloud flexibility and corporate independence. For this reason, Monitorpack's Universal Hub architectural roadmap bypasses MariaDB completely to anchor all multi-vendor monitoring data into native Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Monitorpack is currently working on Zabbix native database integration in Azure & Power Bi, the goal is to provide Power Bi dashboards in minutes by only changing the connexion de votre base Zabbix en quelques secondes (estimaed first quarter 2027)
Simultaneously, we reject ephemeral visualization tools in favor of Microsoft's enterprise-hardened Power BI RDL format. Microsoft's massive, ongoing cloud investments into the RDL engine guarantee that your QoS and SLA reports remain pixel-perfect, highly secure via Entra ID MFA, and structurally sustainable for the next decade. Monitorpack doesn't just adapt to the future; we architect it to keep your infrastructure permanently free from vendor lock-in.
01th
September 2026
IT Monitoring: Between Technical Complexity and Operational Efficiency
In the field of IT monitoring, a question regularly arises: should we favor complex and costly solutions, complex predictive IA, or focus on simple but relevant indicators?
This question deserves to be asked without preconceptions. Experience shows that the value of a monitoring solution is not measured by its technical complexity, but by its ability to provide actionable information at the right time.
The System Event Approach
Let's consider two concrete cases where simplicity is often more effective than sophistication:
Detecting Disk Failures
Windows technical documentation indicates that Event ID 7 ("The device has a bad block") is a clear signal of hard drive degradation. When this event occurs repeatedly, the probability of an imminent failure is very high.
This approach is recognized by many experts as a reliable indicator, without requiring complex analysis of multiple SMART attributes or machine learning models.
How to be proactive on disk monitoring
Detecting Suspicious Activities
In the context of ransomware attacks, several Windows events are documented as early warning signs:
- Event ID 7045: creation of a new service, often used by ransomware to install their encryption component
- Event ID 1102: clearing of the security log, a common step to hide traces of an intrusion
- Event ID 4728: addition of a user to a privileged group
These events, properly monitored and correlated, enable early detection without requiring the analysis of thousands of metrics.
How to detect ransomware behavior
The Question of Proportionality
An infrastructure with 5 sites, 25 servers, and 100 workstations requires monitoring adapted to its actual needs. The question is not about choosing between the simplest or the most sophisticated tool, but about determining which indicators truly add value.
Solutions that analyze thousands of data points can provide benefits in certain contexts. However, for many organizations, a targeted approach focusing on critical system events (Event IDs) proves more effective and more economical.
For Effective Monitoring
The experience of many system administrators shows that effective monitoring relies on:
- Relevant indicators: focusing on metrics that have a direct impact on service availability
- Responsiveness: being alerted at the right time, neither too early (to avoid alert fatigue) nor too late
- Clarity: having clear and actionable information
In summary: monitoring is not a complexity contest. It is a tool to serve system availability and security. The most effective approach often combines in-depth technical knowledge of systems (especially Windows events) with appropriate monitoring tools.
