Discover How to Monitor Proxmox Cluster!

In a previous video about ZABBIX ( • Zabbix - Open Source M... ) i demonstrated how to setup and configure Zabbix server. In this video i will show you how to add your entire Proxmox Cluster (or single node) using Proxmox API and Zabbix template for Proxmox VE.
It is very simple process and will take you no more then 10 min.
- Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:40 Setting up Zabbix+Proxmox
01:00 Setting up Proxmox User
03:23 Setting up HOST inside Zabbix Dashboard
06:02 Checking pulled data from Proxmox Cluster
11:13 The End Chat
Zabbix + Proxmox Template
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[@swubutu]

Thanks again MR.P for your Guidance regarding networking, keep doing what you doing 👊

[@gerry2345]

I like this vid... It helps..

[@esmailbosspro8066]

Keep going your the best

[@kristof9497]

Thanks.

[@MarkConstable]

Excellent information rich video, thanks. I'm not entirely convinced the extra resource usage is worth it over relying on the default graphs. I should try it and see if the alerts alone are worth it.

[@MRPtech]

For most cases what Proxmox already showing is good enough for monitoring purpose. Where Zabbix helps me a lot is go back in history of monitoring and try to find out for example why suddenly Docker VM started to use 90%+ RAM or CPU. Out of nowhere Docker VM started to go full tilt with resources usage. Zabbix helped me to go back in monitoring history and pin a time and date when usage went up and i managed to narrow down to a docker container which went nut with internal updates. I am backing up Cluster to Synology NAS and monitoring network traffic i fine tuned when backups should happen to free network traffic for other things.

[@aslfjdasl]

Lovely video, thank you! It is easy to follow. However, I encounter the problem that it says "API service not available". Is there a hidden option to turn off/on the API service inside Proxmox? Happy to get educated on this matter.

[@MRPtech]

Check if Proxmox API setup correctly.

[@Miguelxprimo]

Do I have to create the zabbix user on proxmox mandatory and why can't I just use the root user that's on Proxmox by default?

[@Miguelxprimo]

Zabbix agent has to be installed on every host made in proxmox (vms or lxcs) and not on the proxmox console itself, right?

[@MRPtech]

You don't need to install agent on each node. Zabbix will pull data via http connection using created user and it's access API token.

[@bast7486]

i just get "Proxmox: API service not available" tried multiple times to remove and add the uuser and changing the tokens and so on. Nothing works for me. :(

[@bast7486]

as soon as i wrote this. it all of a sudden started to work..... took about 40 mins of running then all started. Just strange.

[@emisvaldo]

@@bast7486 Verifique se as devidas permissoes foram aplicadas tanto no usuario quanto na API Token

[@VAGELISM22678]

Getting API service not available ... done every step you did...

[@MRPtech]

Double check if API is created on Proxmox side and correct API token key is used

[@VAGELISM22678]

Just installed the agent on every host... And works fine.