Exactly. I feel that monitoring solutions have to be the opposite of backup ones. For backups, you ideally want the backup server to do a pull from the backed-

Exactly. I feel that monitoring solutions have to be the opposite of backup ones. For backups, you ideally want the backup server to do a pull from the backed-up servers, to avoid that a security incident in one of them could damage your backups. But for monitoring, I feel that push is the way to go. I want only the minimal, indispensable connections into my production servers.