Yeah, outbound connections should be fine. Monitoring data, heartbeats or alerts especially. It's not too hard to encrypt it securely. And even if it's leaked,

Yeah, outbound connections should be fine. Monitoring data, heartbeats or alerts especially. It's not too hard to encrypt it securely. And even if it's leaked, it shouldn't be too critical in general. The sink of this data should be a regular server, so you can secure and update it properly.