Zabbix Instance with Azure PaaS DB

[karanpreetsingh1990]

Hello,

We have a fairly large Zabbix installation(~4k NVPS for over 10k Servers/devices being monitored) that we need to migrate sometime this year to Azure. One of the things that I've been contemplating is moving to a PaaS database instead of hosting the DB on another server. We currently have multiple MySQL instances each for Server and proxies hosted on VMs.

I see the supported Databases in requirements essentially only mention the DB engines and nothing in respect to using cloud services. I know they should be supported theoretically but wanted to see if it's been done before and/or any pitfalls to this approach.

We're moving to Azure so options would be Azure DB for MySQL or Azure DB for Postgres.

I would like to know if anyone here has a production installation(comparable size or larger) with Azure PaaS DBs instead of hosting the DB on a VM? Also, if there any particular considerations to be made for Paas vs VM DB or recommendations that can be shared, that would be great.

P.S. Since we're making the move, is it worth trying to switch to Postgres + Timescale instead of MySQL?

Thanks,
Karan

[sabsebolo]

Hi karanpreetsingh1990, I have been trying to configure Zabbix 7.2v with Azure PostgreSQL for the past week, but I'm unable to access the Zabbix portal. It keeps throwing the error on the portal : "Database error: Error connecting to database.". Pls help if you already using Azure Paas DB.