24.01.2017
External Metrics Server for Proxmox
If you are familiar with the Proxmox WebUI1, you'll know, that it provides several metrics that are not available using telegraf plugins. Espacially LXC Guests are hard to monitor. Since Proxmox Release 4.0, it's possible to use an external metrics server. Currently Graphite3 and InfluxDB4 are supported. The following example will demonstrate, how to send data from Proxmox into your InfluxDB and visualize it in Grafana5. Although the information you get from telegraf plugins is nice, they are not reliable for e.
