Zenoss

aid: zenoss
name: Zenoss
description: Zenoss is an AIOps and full-stack IT infrastructure monitoring platform, acquired by Virtana in May 2025 and
  now sold as Virtana Service Observability. It ingests metrics, events and entity models from hybrid estates — VMware, Nutanix,
  Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, network and storage — through on-premises Collection Zones, streaming agents and OpenTelemetry/OTLP,
  then applies dependency mapping, event correlation and anomaly detection to turn raw signal into service impact. The developer
  surface is a versioned /v1 REST API covering data ingest, event query and management, entity/model context, maintenance
  windows, the metric dictionary, notification Actions, credentials and user management, plus first-party proto3/gRPC contracts
  for the data receiver and data registry. API clients authenticate with a long-lived key in the zenoss-api-key header, issued
  per API Client from the console, and each tenant is assigned one of four regional endpoints.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - documentation
  - grpc
  generated: '2026-08-29'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: contact-sales
  onboarding: sales-led
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Contact sales
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - url: https://www.zenoss.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://www.virtana.com/service-observability/ — a different registrable domain (zenoss.com
      -> virtana.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-08-29'
  method: searched
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zenoss.png
tags:
- AIOps
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Infrastructure
- Event Management
- Hybrid Cloud
- OpenTelemetry
- gRPC
- Metrics
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zenoss/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-08-29'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: zenoss:zenoss
  name: Virtana Service Observability API
  description: Versioned /v1 REST API for the Zenoss (Virtana Service Observability) platform. Covers the data receiver (metrics,
    events, entity models), event query and event management, model context (entity search, custom properties, maintenance
    windows), the metric/entity-field/event-field dictionary, notification Actions (triggers, rules, destinations), credentials,
    and user and group management. JSON over HTTPS, authenticated with a long-lived key in the zenoss-api-key header. Non-CRUD
    operations use Google AIP custom-method colon suffixes (:search, :count, :batchGet, :deleteBulk). Each tenant is assigned
    one of four regional endpoints — api.virtana.ai (Iowa), api2 (Las Vegas), api3 (Sydney), api4 (Frankfurt).
  humanURL: https://docs.zenoss.io/api/zenoss-api.html
  baseURL: https://api.virtana.ai
  tags:
  - AIOps
  - Monitoring
  - Observability
  - Event Management
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.zenoss.io/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.zenoss.io/api/zenoss-api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.zenoss.io/start/get-started.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/zenoss-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/zenoss-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/zenoss-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/zenoss-data-model.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/zenoss-webhooks.yml
- aid: zenoss:zenoss-grpc
  name: Zenoss Cloud gRPC Services
  description: First-party proto3 service contracts published at github.com/zenoss/zenoss-protobufs and released as a Go module
    (v1.5.5, 2026-07-27). DataReceiverService carries unary PutEvents, PutMetrics and PutModels plus client-streaming PutEvent,
    PutMetric and PutModel; DataRegistryService registers metric and definition metadata; CredentialManagement reads stored
    credentials; CollectionConfigService streams collection configuration to probes. RPCs carry google.api.http annotations
    binding them to the same /v1 REST paths, so the protobufs are the machine-readable contract behind the ingest surface.
  humanURL: https://docs.zenoss.io/api/receiver/data-receiver.html
  baseURL: https://api.virtana.ai
  tags:
  - gRPC
  - Metrics
  - Event Management
  - OpenTelemetry
  properties:
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/zenoss-data-receiver.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/zenoss-data-registry.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/zenoss-credentials.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/zenoss-collection-cfg.proto
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/zenoss/zenoss-protobufs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.zenoss.io/api/receiver/data-receiver.html
- aid: zenoss:zenoss-router-api
  name: Zenoss API for Collection Zone and Resource Manager
  description: 'The long-standing Zenoss JSON router API, still documented and supported for Zenoss Cloud Collection Zones
    and on-premises Zenoss Resource Manager / Service Dynamics. Every call is an HTTP POST of a JSON envelope — {"action":
    "<Router>", "method": "<method>", "data": [...], "tid": <n>} — to a router path under /zport/dmd (for example device_router,
    events_router, triggers_router). 61 routers are documented, covering devices, events, event classes, triggers, templates,
    reports, jobs, users, LDAP, SAML IdP, licensing, ZenPacks, impact and vendor-specific surfaces (AWS, Azure, vSphere, Hyper-V,
    OpenStack, Cisco UCS, EMC Isilon, SMI-S). Collection Zones authenticate with a z-api-key header; Resource Manager uses
    HTTP Basic. Zenoss states that some of this functionality will be replaced by the newer /v1 API services over time.'
  humanURL: https://docs.zenoss.com/api/background.html
  baseURL: https://{collection-zone-host}/cz0/zport/dmd
  tags:
  - Monitoring
  - Event Management
  - Infrastructure
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.zenoss.com/api/background.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.zenoss.com/api/reference/devicerouter.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.zenoss.com/api/how-to/use-curl.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/zenoss-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/zenoss-conventions.yml
common:
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/zenoss/zenoss-protobufs/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://www.zenoss.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.zenoss.io/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.zenoss.io/api/zenoss-api.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.zenoss.io/start/get-started.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/zenoss
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zenoss-inc-
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.virtana.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.virtana.com/feed/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.virtana.com/support/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.cloud.virtana.com/ui/new-signin
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.virtana.com/legal-notices/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.virtana.com/privacy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.zenoss.io/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://docs.zenoss.io/admin/updates/deprecation.html
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.zenoss.io/admin/updates/cloud-updates.html
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/zenoss-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/zenoss-lifecycle.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://docs.zenoss.io/glossary/glossary.html
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://www.virtana.com/trust/
- type: Compliance
  url: security/zenoss-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/zenoss-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/zenoss-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/zenoss-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/zenoss-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/zenoss-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/zenoss-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/zenoss-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/zenoss-webhooks.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/zenoss-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/zenoss-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/zenoss-finops.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zenoss-domain-security.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/zenoss-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-29'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
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