Proxmox Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus

Proxmox Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana (in Docker) This video shows how to monitor Proxmox PVE using Grafana and Prometheus, using a PVE specific exporter. The environment is hosted in Docker. This video is part of a Proxmox PVE Nested Virtualization home lab series, where we will be building out a lab environment to test Proxmox no subscription features and functionality. Since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, many customers are looking elsewhere for their virtualisation requirements. Chapters in this video: 00:00 Intro and User Setup 01:06 Setting up VM to host docker 02:52 Reviewing components of the monitoring solution 03:54 Installing Docker 04:57 PVE Exporter Container Setup 06:36 Creating the PVE container 07:43 Confirming PVE container running as expected 08:53 Displaying Metrics in PVE Exporter 09:13 Prometheus Setup 10:58 Creating Prometheus Data Volume 11:11 Creating the Prometheus Container 12:34 Confirming Prometheus is running 13:20 Grafana Setup 13:45 Creating Grafana volume 14:00 Creating Grafana Docker Container 14:53 Confirming Grafana running as intended 15:11 Logging in to Grafana for the first time 15:33 Demonstrating data in previously created Prometheus Instance 16:52 Adding the Prometheus data source 17:52 Creating and editing a dashboard in Grafana 21:13 Outro Note - as pointed out in the comments, the permissions used on the Proxmox user for this video are root level. Whilst this won't cause any damage as the exporter is only reading metrics, you may want to reduce the level of access in case the credentials used in the exporter are compromised. For a home lab like this, it was not a concern. Useful links: Config and commands in House of Logic Github Repo https://github.com/HouseOfLogicGH/ProxmoxPVE/tree/main/PrometheusGrafanaMonitoring Prometheus PVE Exporter https://github.com/prometheus-pve/prometheus-pve-exporter Installing Prometheus using Docker https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/installation/#using-docker Installing Grafana using Docker https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/installation/docker/#run-grafana-docker-image Follow @HouseofLogicBlog or visit https://www.houseoflogic.co.uk for more tutorials and articles.