Assistance with finding a solution to run Zabbix Proxy on small inexpensive hardware

[greavette]

Hello Team,

I'm very interested in finding a solution to running Zabbix Proxy at a remote location where we don't have servers installed. Our Zabbix runs in our office datacenter but at a remote small office we have some computers I'd like to monitor so I thought using a Zabbix Proxy at the small office would be ideal. I've tooled around with using Zabbix Proxy on a Raspberry Pi but the database to run Zabbix Proxy will eventually kill the SD card. This article from years back also seemed to suggest that Zabbix itself was looking at how to run Zabbix Proxy from a Pi but I can't find the follow-up to confirm if Zabbix found this a useful approach - https://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-runni...5-device/1256/.

I could add a hard drive to a Pi and run Zabbix from there but I thought I would reach out to this community to see if others have found a better solution. Ideally I think the best solution would be if Zabbix Proxy didn't need to use a database at all. That way a Pi could probably work great and the writes on the database wouldn't kill the SD card. But if Zabbix Team doesn't plan on changing how Zabbix proxy works...what other options has this community come up with to run Zabbix Proxy on a remote location? What small inexpensive hardware that won't die quickly have you found to run Zabbix Proxy from?

Thank you in advance for any advice you can provide me.

[finalbeta]

I use raspberry PI's as proxies, they work fine.
I've had them last over a year for a 8GB card. Depending on the card, the writes, millage will differ, doubling the size (16GB) will double the life.

But if acceptable, you can place the proxy sqllite database on tempfs, thus saving the sd card (but losing data if power goes out)