Can you monitor your ad-blocker with Zabbix? Of course you can!
My home Asus router is running on Asuswrt-Merlin firmware, and with that I have AdGuard Home ad-blocker.
As AdGuard Home has an API, monitoring it with Zabbix is trivial.
Communicate with the API
Communicating with AdGuard Home API is easy: pass it Authorisation: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXX header, where XXXXXXXXXX is just a Base64 hash of your AdGuard username and password. You can generate that Base64 snippet with for example
echo -n "myuser:mypassword" | base64
Next, in Zabbix, create a new HTTP Agent type item, and point it to your AdGuard Home instance.
Create some items
You'll get the info back as JSON, so next you can create some dependent items and start monitoring. I only added
- Total number of DNS requests
- Blocked # of DNS requests
- Redirects to safe search
- Parental advisory stuff
- Average request processing time
For the dependent items, you'll then just do some JSONPath processing.
Add triggers
Next, I added few triggers to alert me if AdGuard starts to run slower than usual.
Add service
Finally, I added AdGuard as a new business service, so I'll get an SLA for it.
And that's it! From now on I'll know more about how well my home router ad-blocker is working. (Well, it also has Skynet firewall which probably filters stuff before AdGuard Home, but that's another story....)
Comments (1)
Enhance the post, but thanks
Mark (not verified)
I find this topic is lacking context and more details about the AdGuard authentication and Zabbix item creation.
Despite that, thanks a lot for this information.
I was looking for a way to monitor my AdGuard Home but didn't know how to (didn't look for neither :D).