External Metric Server ---------------------- ifdef::wiki[] :pve-toplevel: endif::wiki[] Starting with {pve} 4.0, you can define external metric servers, which will be sent various stats about your hosts, virtual machines and storages. Currently supported are: * Graphite (see http://graphiteapp.org ) * InfluxDB (see https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/influxdb/ ) The server definitions are saved in '/etc/pve/status.cfg' Graphite server configuration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The definition of a server is: ---- graphite: your-id server your-server port your-port path your-path ---- where your-port defaults to *2003* and your-path defaults to *proxmox* {pve} sends the data over UDP, so the graphite server has to be configured for this. Influxdb plugin configuration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The definition is: ---- influxdb: your-id server your-server port your-port ---- {pve} sends the data over UDP, so the influxdb server has to be configured for this. Here is an example configuration for influxdb (on your influxdb server): ---- [[udp]] enabled = true bind-address = "0.0.0.0:8089" database = "proxmox" batch-size = 1000 batch-timeout = "1s" ---- With this configuration, your server listens on all IP addresses on port 8089, and writes the data in the *proxmox* database Multiple Definitions and Example ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The *id* is optional, but if you want to have multiple definitions of a single type, then the ids must be defined and different from each other. Here is an example of a finished status.cfg ---- graphite: server 10.0.0.5 influxdb: influx1 server 10.0.0.6 port 8089 influxdb: influx2 server 10.0.0.7 port 8090 ----