Proxmox built-in monitoring
Although limited to many advanced features, Proxmox can still be monitored through the Proxmox GUI. Proxmox comes with built-in RRD-based graphs to show the historical consumption and performance data up to one year. Using this tool, we can analyze the performance trend of a resource over a period of time.
How to do it…
All consumption and performance data is under the Summary tabbed menu for both Proxmox nodes and virtual machines. The following steps show how to browse Proxmox nodes and virtual machines for statistical data:
Log in to the Proxmox GUI.
Select a Proxmox node or a virtual machine for both KVM or OpenVZ.
Click on the Summary tabbed menu. Under Status, block all the information regarding the entity shown.
To change the period for historical data for graphing, click on the drop-down menu to select the hourly, daily, monthly, or yearly period. The following screenshot shows the monthly CPU usage and Server load for our example
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