monitoring recommendation ?

[RolandK]

i would like to have a more granular view to all Host an VM metrics

what would you recommend for easy installable, configurable and maintainable solution to get a better view on all pve metrics?

what i'm especially after is more granular monitoring of individual storage and virtual disks (iops)

 

[gratuxri]

Maybe you are looking for https://checkmk.com/

 

[RolandK]

and this will provide me with proxmox vm metrics without installing agents in every virtual machine ? this information does at least not look to promising at all : https://checkmk.com/integrations?tags=proxmox

 

[UdoB]

You probably know https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#external_metric_server ?
Without any modification of the PVE Nodes it will send a lot of data to a (to-be-build) InfluxDB. Then Grafana can visualize it.

To get a glance on what is possible look for Dashboards on https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/?search=proxmox&dataSource=influxdb . In my personal experience not all Dashboards work in every situation so your actual success will vary.

(Disclaimer: I am NOT using that combination.)

Good luck

 

[RolandK]

yes, i know these, but which dashboard allows detailed per-vm statistics and will dynamically adjust to your VM infrastructure?

i have no time to try out 32 incomplete or outdated solutions

the last time i looked into that, it was frustrating

i used stor2rrd in the past and it was fantastic , i just see that lpar2rrd has support for proxmox. that looks interesting ( https://demo.lpar2rrd.com/ , https://lpar2rrd.com/Proxmox-monitoring.php )

 

[aaron]

I personally use Zabbix for my PVE hosts themselves. Haven't looked into their PVE plugin yet though.

 

[Dunuin]

I personally use Zabbix for my PVE hosts themselves. Haven't looked into their PVE plugin yet though.

The PVE plugins will show you stuff that the PVE API provides. For additional information it is still required to add more templates. So zabbix is quite powerful, but a pain to set everything and to maintain it. Especially when templates requires that you install packages, setup scripts. edit your sudoers config, edit templates to match your hardware/software and so on. A lot of work if you ever need to reinstall your PVE.
For most stuff is it sufficient to use the PVE template together with the default Linux templates. But I also like to run other templates:
- a template that monitors ECC errors
- a template that uses IPMI to monitor my fans, temperaturs, voltages
- a template that monitors available apt updates
- NUT template that monitors my UPS
- a template that monitors my mdadm raids
- a template that monitors my ZFS pools
- a template that monitors my SMART attributes
- ...

 

[czechsys]

netdata (cloud)

 

[Dexter23]

The PVE plugins will show you stuff that the PVE API provides. For additional information it is still required to add more templates. So zabbix is quite powerful, but a pain to set everything and to maintain it. Especially when templates requires that you install packages, setup scripts. edit your sudoers config, edit templates to match your hardware/software and so on. A lot of work if you ever need to reinstall your PVE.
For most stuff is it sufficient to use the PVE template together with the default Linux templates. But I also like to run other templates:
- a template that monitors ECC errors
- a template that uses IPMI to monitor my fans, temperaturs, voltages
- a template that monitors available apt updates
- NUT template that monitors my UPS
- a template that monitors my mdadm raids
- a template that monitors my ZFS pools
- a template that monitors my SMART attributes
- ...

Hi @Dunuin i install zabbix on my proxmox but i'm new to zabbix so if you can help me to setup this template i appreciate that, thanks.