Built by one person, for people who run infra without an SRE team.
Zuzia is a solo-built, bootstrapped product from Poland. No VC, no growth team, no sales calls. Just a focused tool for freelancers and small agencies who manage a handful of client servers and websites and want one panel instead of five.
Who's behind Zuzia
Hi — I'm Grzegorz Bukat. I've spent the last decade-plus building and shipping web products: writing backend code, running production servers, debugging things at 2am, and managing infrastructure for clients across DigitalOcean, Hetzner, bare-metal providers and a long tail of smaller hosts.
Zuzia started as my own internal tool. The portfolio of client servers I was maintaining had grown past the point where a notepad of SSH aliases and a handful of disconnected monitoring SaaS-es was sustainable. The stack I was paying for at that point was UptimeRobot for HTTPS checks, Healthchecks.io for cron heartbeats, self-hosted Netdata for metrics, and SSH for everything else. Five tools, three bills, zero connection between them, and still no way to schedule a recurring task across all of those servers from one place.
I built Zuzia to be the one panel I wished I had. Uptime, SSL, recurring tasks executed by the agent, remote commands and AI-summarised alerts — one account, one bill, priced for someone billing clients a few hundred a month, not for Fortune 500 SRE budgets.
Why it's called Zuzia
Zuzia is my daughter. Every time I was working late at night — fixing a server, chasing a flaky cron, or just trying to keep client infrastructure alive — she would walk into the room and tell me she wanted to help.
So I built her. A second set of hands that watches the servers when I can't, runs the recurring jobs I'd otherwise do by SSH, and only wakes me up when something genuinely needs my attention. Named after her, built in the spirit of what she wanted to do — actually help.
How we think about the product
Pricing should match the customer's reality
A freelancer hosting 10 client VPS-es is not the same customer as a Fortune 500 SRE team. So our pricing doesn't pretend they are. Free Forever covers a side project. Starter ($9/mo) covers a freelancer with a small portfolio. Pro ($19/mo) covers a small agency. Lifetime ($129 one-time) is for people who plan to stay for years and would rather not think about a subscription.
Alerts that actually mean something
The default behavior of most monitoring tools is to scream at you. Zuzia's AI-summarised alerts are designed to do the opposite — group related events, suppress noise, and only notify you when something genuinely needs a human. You should be able to trust the notification when it comes.
Privacy by design, EU by default
Zuzia is hosted in Poland, in EU infrastructure, under GDPR. Your data is not sold, not shared, not used to train any third-party model.
How the agent connects (and how to lock it down)
The agent talks to Zuzia bidirectionally — that's how we can push a new task or a command to your server in near-real time, instead of polling on an interval. You pick the port the agent listens on; we don't impose one.
For anything production we recommend whitelisting that port at your firewall to Zuzia's published IP range only. That way the agent is reachable to us, invisible to the rest of the internet, and your attack surface stays roughly the same as it was before installation. Our IP range is in the docs and is stable — we don't rotate it without notice.
Why the agent isn't open-source
A monitoring agent installed with elevated permissions is, honestly, a great place to put your security through review. We don't open-source the agent because publishing it lowers the bar for an attacker to find specific edges to exploit in the protocol or auth flow. We do publish what it does: it reads what you configure (CPU, RAM, disk, uptime, custom command output), executes the tasks you schedule from the panel, and doesn't do anything you didn't ask for — no shell access without an explicit task, no file exfiltration, no auto-updates without your approval. If you need an air-gapped deployment or an audit conversation, email [email protected].
Where we are today
Zuzia is live, stable, and used by a small but growing number of solo developers and small agencies. The Free plan is unlimited in time and requires no card. Lifetime ($129) is available while we're still early — once we have a full multi-seat team plan and a few more integrations, that price will reset to $229.
The roadmap is shared openly on Discord. Bugs, feature requests and "why isn't there X" goes there too — I read everything.
Got a question this page didn't answer? Email me directly — it lands in my inbox, not a ticket queue.