Grafana + Prometheus on Proxmox (Monitor EVERYTHING)

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🚀 **How To Monitor Proxmox with Grafana + Prometheus (Full Setup Guide)** In this video, I’ll show you how to set up a complete monitoring stack for your Proxmox cluster using **Prometheus**, **Grafana**, and **Node Exporter**. This works for multiple nodes and gives you real-time stats like CPU, RAM, disk usage, and more. Perfect for homelabs, servers, and anyone serious about understanding their infrastructure. --- ## 🧠 What You’ll Build * Central monitoring VM (Debian) * Prometheus collecting metrics * Grafana dashboards * Monitoring multiple Proxmox nodes --- ## ⚙️ Step 1: Install Prometheus ```bash sudo apt update sudo apt install -y prometheus systemctl status prometheus ``` Access: ``` http://YOUR-VM-IP:9090 ``` --- ## 📊 Step 2: Install Grafana ```bash sudo apt install -y software-properties-common sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings wget -q -O - https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg] https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list sudo apt update sudo apt install -y grafana sudo systemctl enable --now grafana-server ``` Access: ``` http://YOUR-VM-IP:3000 ``` Default login: ``` admin / admin ``` --- ## 🖥️ Step 3: Install Node Exporter (on each Proxmox node) ```bash apt update apt install -y prometheus-node-exporter ``` Test: ``` http://YOUR-NODE-IP:9100/metrics ``` --- ## 🔗 Step 4: Configure Prometheus Edit config: ```bash sudo nano /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml ``` Add: ```yaml scrape_configs: - job_name: 'proxmox-nodes' static_configs: - targets: - 'NODE1-IP:9100' - 'NODE2-IP:9100' ``` Restart: ```bash sudo systemctl restart prometheus ``` --- ## 🔍 Step 5: Verify Targets Go to: ``` http://YOUR-VM-IP:9090 ``` Search: ``` up ``` You should see both nodes as **UP** --- ## 📈 Step 6: Add Prometheus to Grafana * Go to **Settings → Data Sources** * Add **Prometheus** * URL: ``` http://localhost:9090 ``` --- ## 📊 Step 7: Import Dashboard * Go to **Dashboards → Import** * Use ID: ``` 1860 ``` This gives you a full system monitoring dashboard instantly. --- ## 🚀 Optional: Proxmox VM Monitoring (Advanced) ```bash pip install prometheus-pve-exporter ``` --- ## ⚠️ Troubleshooting * Make sure port **9100** is open on nodes * Double-check IP addresses * Restart Prometheus after config changes --- ## 👍 If this helped: Like 👍 Subscribe 🔔 Drop a comment if you want a Part 2 (alerts, NAS monitoring, etc.) --- #proxmox #grafana #prometheus #homelab #linux #selfhosted