[SOLVED] Proxmox prometheus exporter questions

[georgelza]

[Unit]
Description=Prometheus exporter for Proxmox VE
Documentation=https://github.com/znerol/prometheus-pve-exporter


[Service]
Restart=always
User=prometheus
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/pve_exporter /etc/prometheus/pve.yml


[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
~

 

[georgelza]

here is /etc/prometheus/pve.yml also.

default:
    user: prometheus@pve
    password: abfr24
    verify_ssl: false

 

[georgelza]

some screen shots.
Currently using password, but also tried api then.

 

[georgelza]

Note... I did the check verification/authentification from https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API#Authentication at the bottom... the last curl using the cookie worked, for my prometheus@pve user and password.

 

[georgelza]

interesting...

the command from the service file is...

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/pve_exporter /etc/prometheus/pve.yml

If I execute /usr/local/bin/pve_exporter /etc/prometheus/pve.yml at the command line it fails...
if I execute /usr/local/bin/pve_exporter --config.file /etc/prometheus/pve.yml then it works.
if I modify service file -> ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/pve_exporter --config.file /etc/prometheus/pve.yml
it still fails after a reload and restart...

Suggestions.

For now I cheated by executing nohup /usr/local/bin/pve_exporter --config.file /etc/prometheus/pve.yml & at the terminal which allows metrics to flow to my prometheus store and visible inside Grafana.

G