I thought it was quirky that Proxmox offers all these LXC containers, but they do not have Turnkey for their native-support monitoring systems, Grafana and InfluxDB.
That really seems like a footgun to me. WTH?
I wanted to see this Metric Server thing working. Found an easy testlab setup.
This tteck person, who clearly has way too much time on their hands, has scripted out a containerized install of both of those apps.
It's a bit clunky, gotta run it in your PVE console window and don't touch till it finishes. (I kept screwing that up.)
(There are a bunch of brilliant scripts there, but the installers are gold.)
Grafana LXC template
https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/#grafana-lxc
InfluxDB LXC template
https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/#influxdb-lxc
Once the app containers are up, Gabriel Verle steps us through configuring them to talk to PVE and each other.
(Props to Gabriel for their ability to write a good how-to. Excellent beginner intro for these apps.)
https://medium.com/@nykogabriel/how-to-monitor-proxmox-with-grafana-and-influxdb-e55116081867
I was able to walk through all of this in an hour or two.
It all worked. I did zero hacking.
The apps are live, they are talking to PVE, tables and data are all there, so is the dashboard.
So, that's what Metric Server does. Hmm.
![1723594843722.png 1723594843722.png](https://forum.proxmox.com/data/attachments/72/72688-2fc74e329c12e94e662c566f5b692e5d.jpg)
That really seems like a footgun to me. WTH?
I wanted to see this Metric Server thing working. Found an easy testlab setup.
This tteck person, who clearly has way too much time on their hands, has scripted out a containerized install of both of those apps.
It's a bit clunky, gotta run it in your PVE console window and don't touch till it finishes. (I kept screwing that up.)
(There are a bunch of brilliant scripts there, but the installers are gold.)
Grafana LXC template
https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/#grafana-lxc
InfluxDB LXC template
https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/#influxdb-lxc
Once the app containers are up, Gabriel Verle steps us through configuring them to talk to PVE and each other.
(Props to Gabriel for their ability to write a good how-to. Excellent beginner intro for these apps.)
https://medium.com/@nykogabriel/how-to-monitor-proxmox-with-grafana-and-influxdb-e55116081867
I was able to walk through all of this in an hour or two.
It all worked. I did zero hacking.
The apps are live, they are talking to PVE, tables and data are all there, so is the dashboard.
So, that's what Metric Server does. Hmm.
![1723594843722.png 1723594843722.png](https://forum.proxmox.com/data/attachments/72/72688-2fc74e329c12e94e662c566f5b692e5d.jpg)
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