Best way to get Proxmox Info?

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I’m currently at work, so can’t do any testing till later tonight. But I’m hoping to pull into a dashboard as much information as I can from my ProxMox server.

I see there is a proxmox integration that will list your nodes, containers, and VM and if they are on or off.

But does the integration also tell you things about the ProxMox server itself like CPU and Memory usage? And/Or similar usage on the VM?

I also learned you can send your proxmox data to an InfluxDB, however it needs to use UDP port 8089. And I think the InfluxDB addon for HA does not have this port available? Thus, you would need to run an InfluxDB server outside of HA to access it?

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So back home any maybe learning some and making a little progress.

So I run Proxmox as my hypervisor with HA setup as a VM. Tonight I setup a container, installed InfluxDB, and created a database called ‘proxmox’.

And in Proxmox, set up the status.cfg file.

So now in influxDB I am pretty sure data is being received, as I see information when “show series”. I just haven’t figured out yet how to read that data with HA. I think I need to setup a sensor for each item?

As an example, this is some of what I see, just haven’t figured out next steps.

nics,host=proxmox,instance=vmbr0,object=nodes
system,host=AlpineLinux,nodename=proxmox,object=qemu,vmid=107
system,host=ChannelsDVR,nodename=proxmox,object=lxc,vmid=120
system,host=DIYHue,nodename=proxmox,object=lxc,vmid=117
system,host=Deconz,nodename=proxmox,object=qemu,vmid=118
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Hey there @ptmuldoon,
right now I am just in the same situation as you were back in October 2020 ;).
I moved from Pi4 to a small dedicated server with Proxmox as the Host system and Home Assistant in a VM.
I really thought it would be one of the easiest things to get monitoring data from the host and VMS into Home Assistant. But I was wrong :confused:
There seem to be several possibilities, so I was asking my self how did you solve this problem for you?
I would be happy to hear from you!
Thanks in advance,
greetings and stay safe!

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Did you try this ?

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hi, thanks for your input. Yes i did, but this integration just gives information about single VMs or LXCs being on or off, thats all. I am more interested in the overall host cpu and ram utilization.
Greetings

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Hi @Shaad, @Br3b If you have not found a solution yet, then I can recommend this guide, he uses a very good custom integration: https://smarthomescene.com/guides/how-to-monitor-and-control-proxmox-virtual-environment-in-home-assistant/

You get all the information you need. :slight_smile:

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I’ve installed Glances on my Proxmox and pulled in the data from there into my HA instance. A simple internet search will lead you to many articles detailing the steps.