Proxmox LXC Collector – Codenotary

This page describes how to setup Proxmox metrics collector as LXC for Opvizor/Cloud.

Steps

1. Make sure you have Valid Opvizor/Cloud subscription with active API key

2. In your Proxmox server navigate to CT Templates in your storage and choose Download from URL option to retrieve the Opvizor connector template.

Link for the template: https://opvizorcloud.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/opvizor-proxmox-collector-template-lxc.tar.gz

3. Once downloaded create a new container as usual

4. Attach to the newly created container and set your Opvizor API key as follows

echo OPVIZOR_APIKEY=replace-this >/crawler/env

5. Restart the collector service

systemctl restart crawler.service

systemctl status crawler.service

The service should be come available instantly

6. Configure Metric Server in Proxmox

Use UDP protocol and point to the IP of the container where the crawler runs. Path can be set to proxmox or your specific proxmox identifier if you have multiple clusters.

7. In crawler logs check if the metrics are being ingested successfully

8. Data in dashboards will be available instantly