Proxmox VE monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB

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:

TCUDE.NET "https://tcude.net/monitoring-proxmox-with-influxdb-and-grafana/"

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!