Monitoring with InfluxDB & Grafana
The metrics pipeline: host telemetry into a time-series database, visualised and alerted on through dashboards.
Why metrics
Logs tell you what happened; metrics tell you how things are trending. Is the host running out of...
The pipeline
Metrics flow in one direction, from source to dashboard: Proxmox host --(built-in metric server)...
Two pillars, one pane of glass
Grafana is doing double duty in this lab, and that's deliberate. It's the dashboard front-end for...
Lessons on monitoring
Watch the foundation first. The Proxmox host's CPU/RAM/disk is the most important thing to graph...