We Build What AIX Was Missing
AIXwatch was born from a simple frustration: 500,000+ AIX LPARs worldwide,
and not a single native Prometheus exporter or Loki agent. We fixed that.
The Problem We Solve
The open-source monitoring world runs on Linux. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager — brilliant tools, battle-tested at scale. But they were never built for AIX.
The official node_exporter relies on /proc and Linux syscalls. It doesn’t compile on AIX. Promtail and Alloy are written in Go — which doesn’t support AIX. The AIX error log (errpt) uses a binary format that no standard log agent can read.
The result? Enterprise teams running mixed Linux/AIX environments are forced to maintain two separate monitoring stacks — or settle for SNMP workarounds and shell-script hacks that break at the worst possible moment.
We decided to build what should have existed all along: native, production-grade monitoring agents for AIX.
Our Principles
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Built Native, Not Ported
Written in C using libperfstat — the same API IBM uses internally. Not a wrapper, not an emulation layer. Real AIX system calls, real performance data.
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Your Data Stays Yours
No SaaS. No telemetry. No phone-home. No cloud dependency. The agents run entirely on-premises. Your metrics never leave your infrastructure. Air-gap compatible.
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Zero Bloat
No Python. No Java. No Node.js. No runtime dependencies. A single static binary under 2 MB. Installs in 60 seconds with standard installp. Starts via SRC.
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Fair Pricing
Perpetual license — buy once, use forever. No subscriptions, no per-year fees. Optional maintenance for updates and support. Volume discounts for larger deployments.
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Enterprise-Ready
BFF packaging. SRC subsystem integration. Inittab auto-start. Clean installp -u uninstall. Built the way AIX admins expect software to work.
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One Unified Stack
Your AIX servers appear alongside your Linux fleet in the same Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki stack. One pane of glass. No more blind spots.
Who We Are
AIXwatch is built by Strava Ltd, based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Our team brings over 20 years of hands-on experience with UNIX systems, enterprise storage, and infrastructure monitoring — specifically in the environments where AIX runs: banking, telecoms, government, and healthcare.
We’re not a VC-funded startup chasing the next buzzword. We’re engineers who manage AIX systems daily and got tired of monitoring blind spots. We built the tools we needed, and now we’re sharing them with the community.
“Every AIX admin knows the frustration: you set up beautiful Grafana dashboards for your Linux servers, and then there’s this gap where your Power Systems should be. We built AIXwatch to close that gap — for ourselves first, and then for everyone else running AIX in production.”
Technology
Our agents are written in C and compiled natively for AIX on Power Systems. Here’s what’s under the hood:
Platform: IBM AIX 7.1 / 7.2 / 7.3
Architecture: POWER7, POWER8, POWER9, Power10
Language: C (GCC)
Metrics API: libperfstat (IBM)
Packaging: BFF (installp)
Init: SRC subsystem + inittab
Dependencies: gcc-libsContact
📧 General inquiries
info@aixwatch.com
🛠️ Technical support
support@aixwatch.com
💼 Sales & licensing
sales@aixwatch.com
Strava Ltd — 11 Zinonos Sozou Street, 1st Floor, 1075 Nicosia, Cyprus
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Try our agents for free. See your AIX metrics in Grafana in under 5 minutes.