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Proxmox Monitoring Influxhdb2 and Grafana

Add new metric server on proxmox, generate token from InfluxDB, make sure you get read/write access token API.

Make sure bucket and name patch, we are using organization htf and http port 8086

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Create new API this time for grafana and give all read access to all buckets

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On grafana we will add a new source where URL IP is our Influxdb

 

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Save and test should work next we will add a new dashboard, we are using https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/17051-proxmox/?tab=revisions for our dashboard, copy code and import to grafana

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Select DB (Influxdb) give it a name and import

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you can use the following command on Proxmox to view influxdb errors

journalctl -a | grep influxdb 

Also if no data is being sent make sure pvestatd is running on proxmox

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