Monitoring proxmox health

[yatesco]

Hi,

I have installed Proxmox 5 on a single server and everything looks great. I have configured backups and receiving emails about those.

My question is, will proxmox also email me on smart (disk) failures/temperature warnings etc.? What about diskspace, running out of memory etc.?

Thanks!

 

[udo]

Hi,
on smart-errors you got an email. For disksspace / low mem and so on not.

For this is an monitoring system like icinga2 a good choice.

Udo

 

[yatesco]

Thanks udo. icinga2? - I remember when nagios was a new thing, that makes me feel old .

 

[guletz]

Try monit ! Others tools like Incinga/Nagios, are only for "see" the IT system, but can not do nothing more. Monit has acction, so it can react on a situation. For example if free disk-space is less then 10 %, then let delete some files/zfs-snapshoots/what-ever. The limit is only your imagination.

 

[yatesco]

Thanks for the link.

I remember researching a bunch of these a few years ago and zabbix came out the clear winner. However, OpenSource years are longer than dog years so it is worth reviewing again.

Try monit ! Others tools like Incinga/Nagios, are only for "see" the IT system, but can not do nothing more. Monit has acction, so it can react on a situation. For example if free disk-space is less then 10 %, then let delete some files/zfs-snapshoots/what-ever. The limit is only your imagination.

 

[s4cr4l]

Nagios has event handlers you can trigger action.