Create Container uptime Check in Zabbix

[bigOconstant]

Hello Zabbix world,

I have been tasked with creating a container uptime check in our zabbix instance. The idea is that some how zabbix will discover that a container has been running for> 90 Days and then an alert in zabbix will be created. That alert will signal a webhook to something called service now afterwords. I would like to do it like this,

Write a golang service that calls the kubernetes api and then call a zabbix api. I have zabbix running locally in docker-compose so I can test this.

Could anyone give me any pointers on how I can accomplish this?

[Singularity]

zabbix-agent2 has native docker container monitoring template that extracts almost everything related to containers.
Link to items the template collects : https://www.zabbix.com/integrations/docker

You can then create a trigger to check the running time and if that exceeds 90, alert will be displayed.

[bigOconstant]

We are using kubernetes which uses podman and not docker as it's container layer. So I think that one might not work.

[Singularity]

I didn't got the chance to do it but there are third party integrations that you can try out.

Ofcourse the other thing is using the k8s api. I have used that. A script that will call k8s api to get container information ( in your case you might only get container running time ).
This script will be used as a low level discovery which will automatically handle containers and data associated with it. And on that, you can create a trigger.
To know and how to use LLD, here is the link : https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...evel_discovery

If you want me to elaborate, please feel free to ask.

[bigOconstant]

I didn't got the chance to do it but there are third party integrations that you can try out.

Ofcourse the other thing is using the k8s api. I have used that. A script that will call k8s api to get container information ( in your case you might only get container running time ).
This script will be used as a low level discovery which will automatically handle containers and data associated with it. And on that, you can create a trigger.
To know and how to use LLD, here is the link : https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...evel_discovery

If you want me to elaborate, please feel free to ask.

So my current plan is to call the k8's api and send the information via a zabbix_sender. Singularity do you think that would be a good approach?

[Singularity]

Yes, zabbix_sender is a good approach.