Zabbix Monitoring for Multi Node Architecture

[thegoogoblin]

I am looking to find suggestions and what has worked for anyone else utilizing Zabbix as their monitoring tool in a multi node layout.

I have been successful with implementing the template from zabbix.com that fetches your entire cluster via HTTP calls, however I can't seem to have Zabbix monitor the cluster in a highly available way. If I add a single node to the macro {$PVE.URL.HOST} I get data, but what if I want that monitoring to still work if that host URL becomes unavailable?

Should I scrap the HTTP monitoring for local agents instead?
Should I do both the HTTP monitoring and local agents in tandem to get copious amounts of data?

Is there a way within the cluster to assign user and API permissions to only 1 node? (I tried this and was unsuccessful but may have done it incorrectly)
I could then just create a user and assign permissions for each node and have zabbix monitor each node via HTTP rather than 1 host for the entire cluster. (Not ideal)

I did see another post that accomplished something similar using keepalived to assign a VIP here, maybe that would be best?

Is there something simple I am missing here?

Using proxmox VE v8.2.4 and Zabbix Server v6.4

 

[jhavens12]

Hi +1 here

 

[itNGO]

Install Agent on each node... add Zabbix API Template to each Zabbix Agent and configure API and URL to the specific nodes....
You have x-time redundant monitoring then.

Drawback.... Alerts come multiple times... from each node in monitoring once...