Monitoring PBS with InfluxDB and Grafana

[Andreas_H]

Hello,

I want to monitor my PBS with InfluxDB and Grafana. Pushing metrics to InfluxDB seems to work out of the box, but since I am relatively new with Grafana - are there any pre-made dashboards for this? I found some decent dashboards for PVE, but none yet for PBS.

If not, can someone give me a short overview what metrics are stored which would be useful to monitor? I am still having a hard time using the "Explore" feature of grafana.

Thanks,
Andreas

 

[UdoB]

This basic (read: not much PBS specific, e.g. Dedup-Factor etc. is missing) Dashboard seems to work: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/20229-pbs/

 

[Andreas_H]

Thanks for the link. This helps, but leaves another problem which I also have with PVE metrics. In the description it says

supports multible Backup Server in one influxdb bucket but each server needs a different hostnameset in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname

I am maintaining multiple installations of PVE and PBS, each single-node clusters at different sites with different domains, and each PVE is named pve.localdomain.tld and every PBS is named pbs.localdomain.tld. Would be nice if they could log their metrics with the FQDN, but I guess I have to turn to the developers for that.