I recently stood up my first Proxmox instance, after running ESXi exclusively in my lab. The piece of hardware I have only has a single 1GBe ethernet port and it's a Realtek controller. Instead of trying to get ESXi to play nicely with it. I decided to try my hand with Proxmox given its popularity with the homelab crowd.
Like many homelabbers, I love monitoring and graphs and stats. I saw that Proxmox has a native InfluxDB integration, which means I was sure someone had created a cool Grafana dashboard for it already. Sure enough, I ran across this:
https://tcude.net/monitoring-proxmox-with-influxdb-and-grafana/
It's a super quick and easy guide to getting Influx up and running (in Docker) and imports a pre-existing dashboard.
I might play around with the dashboard and change up how it looks, but for now I'm happy!
@malcolm-r too cool! I know what I am trying next in the lab with Proxmox. Love the visualizations with Grafana. I forgot to ask you if you are monitoring vSphere with Grafana as well?
yep, i have a few vSphere dashboards. for data collection i use the Telegraf input for vSphere: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/vsphere and this set of dashboards: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/8159-vmware-vsphere-overview/
@malcolm-r I have posted my walkthrough mainly focused on the Docker config to stand up influxdb and grafana: