From Dashboards to Decisions: Turning Observium Data into AI-Ready Intelligence

Why stop at dashboards?

Many small ISPs across the UK depend on Observium to monitor their network health. It’s clear, dependable, and visual — the familiar red, amber, green view that tells you when something’s up (or down).

But what if your Observium data could do more than just highlight a problem? What if it could help you solve it automatically?

At NetMinded, we’ve built a first-class data product that extends what Observium already gives you — transforming raw interface data into AI-ready intelligence that powers service automation and agentic AI tools.

Observium is good — but your data is better

Observium’s dashboards and alerts are designed for human eyes, but beneath that interface lies a rich, structured telemetry stream. Each SNMP poll, interface rate, and RAG status can be scored, contextualised, and shared in a way that AI agents can understand and act upon.

Our data product doesn’t replace Observium — it amplifies it.

How it works

We connect directly to your Observium database or API and extract the interface “rate” data elements. From there, our scoring engine classifies every interface:

🟥 Red – Interface down

🟧 Amber – Up, but traffic below your “vampire threshold”

🟩 Green – Up and carrying healthy traffic

Each scored record is enriched with metadata describing:

• What the metric represents (intent)

• How it was derived (feature engineering)

• What system or service it relates to (context)

This transforms Observium telemetry into a self-describing data stream that’s consumable by both humans and AI systems.

What you can do with it

Once Observium data becomes a first-class data product, it can flow into all sorts of next-generation workflows:

• Agentic AI operations — off-the-shelf GPT agents or LangChain graphs that interpret and act on your network data.

• Automation pipelines — trigger scripts or tickets automatically when under-performance is detected.

• Cross-team collaboration — share service-health data safely between wholesale and retail partners without exposing raw SNMP.

• AI copilots for NOC engineers — assistants that can explain why an interface is amber, not just that it is.

It’s the bridge between Observium and AI-driven operations.

Why this matters

Your network is already producing high-quality telemetry, but in most ISPs, it’s locked inside dashboards or log files. The enrichment of data with context and meaning becomes an AI-ready asset — one that helps you operate faster, resolve incidents earlier, and automate more of your daily workload.

This is how smaller ISPs can get big-operator capability without big-operator budgets.

FAQs — for Engineers, Ops leads and curious Googlers

Q: What is a “first-class data product”?
A data product that describes itself — including meaning, derivation, and context — so it can be understood by both humans and AI systems.

Q: Do I need to stop using Observium?
Not at all. This extends Observium’s reach. We extract and enrich the data it already collects — it’s an upgrade, not a replacement.

Q: How does this connect to AI tools?
Once the data is contextualised, it can be exposed via secure APIs, Kafka topics, or webhooks into your existing automation stack or off-the-shelf AI frameworks (like LangChain, OpenAI agents, or n8n).

Q: Does it only work with Observium?
Not at all. Alongside Observium - this specific example will work with Nagios, CheckMK, LibreNMS, Zabbix and PRTG. NetMinded’s scoring mechanisms work with any source of telemetry.

Q: What’s the “vampire threshold”?
It’s our configurable traffic threshold — the point below which a link is technically up but effectively inactive. It helps identify low-value or idle connections.

Q: Is it open source?
The core scoring and schema engine are open source for experimentation. Enterprise users can extend it within MNOC deployments for more advanced automation and AI integrations.

Q: What’s in it for small ISPs?
You already have Observium and rich telemetry — this lets you reuse that investment to start exploring AI-powered service automation with minimal risk.

Ready to explore?

We’re inviting a small number of UK ISPs using Observium to pilot this approach. If you’d like to see your telemetry turned into a living, AI-ready data product, get in touch — we’ll show you how to make your network data speak for itself.