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Observability and monitoring

Zentto includes an enterprise-grade observability stack that monitors the entire platform in real time.

Dashboard access

Section titled “Dashboard access”
ToolURLPurpose
Kibanakibana.zentto.netDashboards, logs, alerts
Kafka UIkafka.zentto.netEvent queue, topics

What is monitored?

Section titled “What is monitored?”

Real-time operations

Section titled “Real-time operations”
  • Requests per second to the API
  • Response codes (200, 400, 500)
  • Average latency per endpoint
  • Concurrent active users
Screenshot: Operations dashboard in Kibana

Errors and exceptions

Section titled “Errors and exceptions”
  • Errors per hour with trend
  • Top 10 most frequent errors
  • Stack traces for debugging
  • Automatic alerts when error rate rises

Audit and security

Section titled “Audit and security”
  • Successful and failed logins
  • Configuration changes
  • Access by company and user
  • Geographic connection map

Performance

Section titled “Performance”
  • Latency percentiles (P50, P95, P99)
  • Slow requests (>1 second)
  • Throughput per service

Business Intelligence

Section titled “Business Intelligence”
  • Invoices issued per day
  • POS vs Web sales
  • CRM leads created vs closed
  • New customers per week
  • Access by country
Screenshot: Business Intelligence dashboard

Infrastructure

Section titled “Infrastructure”
  • CPU and memory per Docker container
  • Logs per service
  • Container restarts
  • Disk usage

Zentto Notify

Section titled “Zentto Notify”
  • Emails sent per hour
  • Delivery, open and click rates
  • Failures by channel (Email, WhatsApp, SMS)

Mobile

Section titled “Mobile”
  • Sessions per app (Store, Ops, Rest, CRM)
  • Most used endpoints from mobile
  • Push notifications sent vs opened

Automatic alerts

Section titled “Automatic alerts”
AlertTriggerNotification
Error spike>10 5xx errors in 5 minEmail + Slack
Slow APIP95 > 3s for 10 minSlack
Brute force>20 failed logins from same IP in 1 minBlock + Email
Disk full>85% disk usageEmail
Container downUnhealthy > 2 minSlack + Email
No traffic0 requests for 5 minUrgent email

How to use Kibana

Section titled “How to use Kibana”

Search logs

Section titled “Search logs”
  1. Open kibana.zentto.net
  2. Go to Discover in the side menu
  3. Select the index pattern zentto-api-logs-*
  4. Use the search bar to filter:
    • statusCode:500 — Errors only
    • method:POST AND path:"/v1/facturas" — Invoice creation
    • companyId:1 AND durationMs>1000 — Slow requests for a company
    • event:"invoice.created" — Specific business events

Create visualizations

Section titled “Create visualizations”
  1. Go to Visualize Library
  2. Click Create visualization
  3. Select the type (line, bar, pie, table, map)
  4. Choose the index pattern and configure axes
  5. Save and add it to a dashboard

Create dashboards

Section titled “Create dashboards”
  1. Go to Dashboard
  2. Click Create dashboard
  3. Add existing visualizations
  4. Set the time range (last 24h, 7 days, etc.)
  5. Save the dashboard

Stack architecture

Section titled “Stack architecture”
Zentto API → Kafka (8 topics) → Logstash → Elasticsearch → Kibana
                                                ↑
Docker containers → Filebeat ─────────────────────┘

Kafka topics

Section titled “Kafka topics”
TopicDataRetention
zentto-api-logsHTTP requests, info7 days
zentto-api-errors5xx errors, exceptions30 days
zentto-api-auditLogin, changes, access90 days
zentto-api-performanceLatency, slow queries7 days
zentto-api-eventsBusiness events30 days
zentto-docker-logsContainer logs3 days
zentto-notify-logsNotify logs14 days
zentto-mobile-eventsApp events14 days