Can you monitor your mobile data usage with Zabbix? Of course you can!
As it is Easter, this entry is a bit short but as I was remoting into my home systems over VPN and my phone, I got this blog post idea.
When on the go, I tend to stay connected to my home network over VPN. Or rather, an iOS Shortcut pretty much runs OpenVPN home profile for me whenever I exit my home.
My Zabbix collects statistics from my home router over SNMP, and as usual, the data includes per-port traffic statistics. VPN clients are shown as tunnel interfaces so Zabbix LLD picks them up nicely.
So, as a result, I get to see how much traffic my phone consumes whenever I’m using mobile VPN. Here’s seven day example screenshots from ZBX Viewer mobile app.
So, from this data I could get all the statistics I need. And, using my ElastiFlow setup, could likely see to where my phone has been connecting to most.
