Aiming at the defects existing in the current wired monitoring system for snubbing operation, including complicated wiring, poor anti-interference and difficult maintenance, in this paper, we design a monitoring system of snubbing operation based on ZigBee technology. The system comprises a data base station and several multi-parameter terminal collection nodes, which can safely and effectively collect various data during the operation of snubbing operation equipment under wireless conditions. The numerical simulation results show that the packet loss rate is 0 when the communication distance is less than 150 m, and the packet loss rate is 0.4% when the communication distance reaches 200 m, which shows the system can fully meet the requirements of 50 m transmission distance in practical applications. The practical application results demonstrate that the system overcomes the constraints of traditional physical wiring, facilitates the efficient collection of data information, realizes wireless monitoring of snubbing operation and has wide application prospects in the snubbing operation system.