--- title: Using Proxmox METRICS In Your Homelab | daily.dev description: A practical setup guide for pushing Proxmox metrics to InfluxDB 2.0 and visualizing them with Grafana in a homelab environment. Covers installing InfluxDB 2.0... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/using-proxmox-metrics-in-your-homelab-xuhjhvef5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Using Proxmox METRICS In Your Homelab | daily.dev og:description: A practical setup guide for pushing Proxmox metrics to InfluxDB 2.0 and visualizing them with Grafana in a homelab environment. Covers installing InfluxDB 2.0... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-proxmox-metrics-in-your-homelab-xuhjhvef5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XUhjHvEF5.png og:image:alt: Using Proxmox METRICS In Your Homelab og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Using Proxmox METRICS In Your Homelab **[apalrd's adventures](https://daily.dev/sources/apalrd)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical setup guide for pushing Proxmox metrics to InfluxDB 2.0 and visualizing them with Grafana in a homelab environment. Covers installing InfluxDB 2.0 as a systemd service (without sudo), installing Grafana, connecting the two, using a pre-built Proxmox dashboard, and optionally configuring TLS certificates for both services. The goal is to track resource usage across VMs, hosts, and containers to help with sizing decisions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I send Proxmox metrics to InfluxDB and view them in Grafana? Proxmox can push metrics directly to InfluxDB 2.0. Install InfluxDB 2.0 as a systemd service (accessible on port 8086), initialize it with an admin password, then install Grafana (accessible on port 3000). Configure Proxmox to send metrics to InfluxDB, connect Grafana to InfluxDB as a data source, and import a pre-built dashboard such as Grafana dashboard ID 15356 for Proxmox. TLS can be added to both services separately. _Homelab engineers tracking VM and container resource usage share setups and dashboards on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I gave my home lab self-healing powers using Prometheus, Grafana, and one free monitoring stack](https://daily.dev/posts/i-gave-my-home-lab-self-healing-powers-using-prometheus-grafana-and-one-free-monitoring-stack-oihougplr) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How I Organize My Self-Hosted Apps and Dev Environment](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-organize-my-self-hosted-apps-and-dev-environment-xlt9ry2an) · Noted · 21 upvotes · 2 comments - [Robust Monitoring Of Linux Host with Prometheus & Grafana \(A. 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