https://vpspilot.dev/blog/Recent content in Blog on VPS PilotHugoenSat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vpspilot.dev/blog/no-inbound-ports/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vpspilot.dev/blog/no-inbound-ports/<p>A lot of self-hosted monitoring still asks every server to listen. Prometheus scrapes <code>node_exporter</code> on port 9100, Netdata serves its dashboard on 19999, and a passive Zabbix agent waits on 10050. To watch a server, you open a port on it and then spend effort making sure only the right machine can use it.</p> <p>Dialing out instead isn&rsquo;t new. Datadog&rsquo;s agent, Netdata Cloud, Zabbix in active mode and Grafana Alloy pushing with <code>remote_write</code> all send data out rather than wait for a scrape. What I wanted for <a href="https://vpspilot.dev/" rel="noopener">VPS Pilot</a> was that model with three extra properties:</p>