On February 24-26, Europol, the official law enforcement agency of the European Union. welcomed leading innovators, researchers, and law enforcement representatives to its headquarters in The Hague for the third edition of Europol Industry and Research Days.
This year marked the first time Zabbix met the criteria for event participation, an achievement that allowed us to showcase the benefits of Zabbix for law enforcement. Let’s take a look at the event, explore why Zabbix’s participation was a true milestone, and dive into the solutions Zabbix can provide for this rapidly growing vertical.
Onstage at Europol Industry and Research Days
The three-day event brought together Europol staff, representatives from law enforcement agencies in EU member states and Schengen-associated countries, private sector innovators, and research organizations. In total, 40 companies and eight EU-funded research projects were selected to present leading-edge technical solutions designed to address the evolving needs of European law enforcement.
Participants explored practical tools and emerging technologies via keynote speeches, short pitches, and in-depth live demonstrations. The event also served as a collaborative platform to strengthen the bond between law enforcement and the private sector, making sure that innovation keeps pace with increasingly complex security challenges.
Tops among 120 applicants
Zabbix’s participation in the event marks a significant achievement, as we were chosen from a group of more than 120 applicants to showcase our technology. It’s a strong public endorsement of our expertise and relevance in supporting mission-critical environments.
Our team demonstrated how robust IT infrastructure monitoring with Zabbix can enhance operational resilience, situational awareness, and system reliability — all essential components for modern law enforcement agencies.
A first for Zabbix – and Latvia
Zabbix’s presence at the Industry and Research Days also represents a milestone for Latvia. We are the first Latvian organization ever selected to participate in the event, highlighting both our technical leadership and Latvia’s growing role in the European cybersecurity and IT innovation landscape.
By contributing to discussions and live demonstrations, we reinforced our commitment to supporting secure and resilient digital infrastructures across Europe and highlighted the increasing importance of cross-sector collaboration in safeguarding Europe’s digital and operational environments.
Zabbix for law enforcement
By providing real-time monitoring and visualization of critical IT infrastructure, Zabbix allows law enforcement agencies to maintain full visibility over servers, networks, databases, and applications. At the same time, customizable dashboards and alerts allow operators to quickly identify performance issues, service outages, or abnormal behavior across complex environments.
When it comes to surveillance systems, Zabbix can monitor cameras, video management systems, storage devices, and network connectivity, making sure that surveillance infrastructure remains continuously operational and immediately alerting key personnel when cameras go offline, storage capacity is low, or network latency affects video streams.
Zabbix is also well suited for air-gapped environments, which are common in sensitive law enforcement and security infrastructures. Because it can be deployed entirely on-premise without relying on external cloud services, it enables secure monitoring of isolated networks while still delivering comprehensive metrics, alerts, and reporting.
Thanks to proactive incident detection and mitigation, Zabbix analyzes system metrics and triggers alerts when thresholds are exceeded or anomalies are detected. Automated notifications and integrations with response tools allow IT teams to react quickly and resolve issues before they disrupt operations.
Zabbix also supports compliance efforts (including requirements aligned with frameworks such as NIS2) by providing audit trails, monitoring logs, availability reports, and security-related metrics. These capabilities help agencies demonstrate operational oversight, risk management, and system reliability.
What’s more, APIs and webhooks allow Zabbix to easily integrate with existing law enforcement IT ecosystems, including ticketing systems, incident response platforms, SIEM solutions, and custom internal tools. This makes it a flexible component within a broader operational workflow, helping agencies centralize monitoring, automate responses, and maintain the reliability of mission-critical services.
Conclusion
Our participation in Europol Industry and Research Days marked an important step in expanding our collaboration with the European law enforcement community. By demonstrating how reliable, secure, and flexible infrastructure monitoring can support mission-critical operations, we highlighted the growing role of Zabbix in strengthening digital resilience.
The connections established and ideas exchanged during the event open the door to promising new collaborations, and we look forward to building on this momentum in the near future.
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