Building a Hybrid Cloud Monitoring Stack with Zabbix, ZeroTier, and Azure
🧩 Problem I wanted a centralized monitoring platform for my homelab that could monitor: On-premises VMware ESXi hosts Linux virtual machines Windows systems HPE iLO hardware management Cloud-hosted workloads The challenge was that most of my infrastructure lives behind NAT at home, and I did not want to expose services publicly or configure complex port forwarding. 🛠️ Solution Overview I built a hybrid monitoring architecture using: Zabbix 7.0 LTS hosted in Azure ZeroTier for secure private connectivity Zabbix Proxy running locally in my homelab VMware API monitoring for ESXi SNMP monitoring for HPE iLO This design allows cloud-hosted monitoring while keeping home infrastructure private. ...