My new Proxmox Monitoring Tools: InfluxDB2 + Grafana
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I recently added some new Monitoring Tools for my Proxmox Server at Home! I installed InfluxDB2 in Docker and used it as an external Metrics Server for Proxmox. Grafana is used to visualize the data in a nice Dashboard.
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