prometheus-pve-exporter 3.8.1
Proxmox VE exporter for the Prometheus monitoring system.
License: Apache-2.0
Requires Python: >=3.9
Keywords: prometheus, exporter, network, monitoring, proxmox

Prometheus Proxmox VE Exporter
==============================

|Build Status| |Package Version|

This is an exporter that exposes information gathered from Proxmox VE
node for use by the Prometheus monitoring system.

Installation
------------

Requires Python 3.9 or better.

Using pip:
==========

.. code:: shell

    python3 -m pip install prometheus-pve-exporter
    pve_exporter --help

Using docker:
=============

.. code:: shell

   docker pull prompve/prometheus-pve-exporter

Example: Display usage message:

.. code:: shell

   docker run -it --rm prompve/prometheus-pve-exporter --help


Example: Run the image with a mounted configuration file and published port:

.. code:: shell

   docker run --init --name prometheus-pve-exporter -d -p 127.0.0.1:9221:9221 -v /path/to/pve.yml:/etc/prometheus/pve.yml prompve/prometheus-pve-exporter

Prometheus PVE Exporter will now be reachable at http://localhost:9221/.

Usage
-----

::

    usage: pve_exporter [-h] [--collector.status | --no-collector.status]
                        [--collector.version | --no-collector.version]
                        [--collector.node | --no-collector.node]
                        [--collector.cluster | --no-collector.cluster]
                        [--collector.resources | --no-collector.resources]
                        [--collector.backup-info | --no-collector.backup-info]
                        [--collector.config | --no-collector.config]
                        [--collector.replication | --no-collector.replication]
                        [--collector.subscription | --no-collector.subscription]
                        [--collector.pve-api-metrics | --no-collector.pve-api-metrics]
                        [--collector.target-metrics | --no-collector.target-metrics]
                        [--config.file CONFIG_FILE]
                        [--web.listen-address WEB_LISTEN_ADDRESS]
                        [--server.keyfile SERVER_KEYFILE]
                        [--server.certfile SERVER_CERTFILE]

    options:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit
      --config.file CONFIG_FILE
                            Path to config file (/etc/prometheus/pve.yml)
      --web.listen-address WEB_LISTEN_ADDRESS
                            Address on which to expose metrics and web server.
                            ([::]:9221)
      --server.keyfile SERVER_KEYFILE
                            SSL key for server
      --server.certfile SERVER_CERTFILE
                            SSL certificate for server

    cluster collectors:
      cluster collectors are run if the url parameter cluster=1 is set and
      skipped if the url parameter cluster=0 is set on a scrape url.

      --collector.status, --no-collector.status
                            Exposes Node/VM/CT-Status
      --collector.version, --no-collector.version
                            Exposes PVE version info
      --collector.node, --no-collector.node
                            Exposes PVE node info
      --collector.cluster, --no-collector.cluster
                            Exposes PVE cluster info
      --collector.resources, --no-collector.resources
                            Exposes PVE resources info
      --collector.backup-info, --no-collector.backup-info
                            Exposes information about guests which are not covered
                            by any backup job

    node collectors:
      node collectors are run if the url parameter node=1 is set and skipped if
      the url parameter node=0 is set on a scrape url.

      --collector.config, --no-collector.config
                            Exposes PVE onboot status
      --collector.replication, --no-collector.replication
                            Exposes PVE replication info
      --collector.subscription, --no-collector.subscription
                            Exposes PVE subscription info

    scrape collectors:
      metrics concerning the operation of the Prometheus PVE exporter itself.

      --collector.pve-api-metrics, --no-collector.pve-api-metrics
                            Exposes duration of PVE API calls
      --collector.target-metrics, --no-collector.target-metrics
                            Exposes duration of scrapes by target


Use `[::]` in the `--web.listen-address` flag in order to bind to both IPv6 and
IPv4 sockets on dual stacked machines.

Visit http://localhost:9221/pve?target=1.2.3.4&cluster=1&node=1 where 1.2.3.4
is the IP of the Proxmox VE node to get metrics from. Specify the ``module``
request parameter, to choose which module to use from the config file.

The ``target`` request parameter defaults to ``localhost``. Hence if
``pve_exporter`` is deployed directly on the proxmox host, ``target``
can be omitted.

Use the `--collector.X` / `--no-collector.X` flags to enable disable selected
collectors.

Note that that the config collector results in one API call per guest VM/CT.
It is therefore recommended to disable this collector using the
`--no-collector.config` flag on big deployments.

Scrape collectors return metrics concerning the operation of the Prometheus PVE
exporter itself. Those metrics are available from the `/metric`.

See the wiki_  for more examples and docs.

Exported Metrics
----------------

Here's an example of the metrics exported.

::

    # HELP pve_up Node/VM/CT-Status is online/running
    # TYPE pve_up gauge
    pve_up{id="node/proxmox"} 1.0
    pve_up{id="qemu/100"} 1.0
    pve_up{id="storage/proxmox/local"} 1.0
    pve_up{id="storage/proxmox/local-lvm"} 1.0
    pve_up{id="storage/proxmox/vms"} 1.0
    # HELP pve_disk_size_bytes Storage size in bytes (for type 'storage'), root image size for VMs (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc').
    # TYPE pve_disk_size_bytes gauge
    pve_disk_size_bytes{id="qemu/100"} 6.8719476736e+010
    pve_disk_size_bytes{id="node/proxmox"} 3.1044079616e+010
    pve_disk_size_bytes{id="storage/proxmox/local"} 3.1044079616e+010
    pve_disk_size_bytes{id="storage/proxmox/local-lvm"} 6.9243764736e+010
    pve_disk_size_bytes{id="storage/proxmox/vms"} 1.934882766848e+012
    # HELP pve_disk_usage_bytes Used disk space in bytes (for type 'storage'), used root image space for VMs (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc').
    # TYPE pve_disk_usage_bytes gauge
    pve_disk_usage_bytes{id="qemu/100"} 0.0
    pve_disk_usage_bytes{id="node/proxmox"} 1.7571426304e+010
    pve_disk_usage_bytes{id="storage/proxmox/local"} 1.7571426304e+010
    pve_disk_usage_bytes{id="storage/proxmox/local-lvm"} 6.619703908e+09
    pve_disk_usage_bytes{id="storage/proxmox/vms"} 8.32870981632e+011
    # HELP pve_memory_size_bytes Number of available memory in bytes (for types 'node', 'qemu' and 'lxc').
    # TYPE pve_memory_size_bytes gauge
    pve_memory_size_bytes{id="qemu/100"} 1.7179869184e+010
    pve_memory_size_bytes{id="node/proxmox"} 6.739961856e+010
    # HELP pve_memory_usage_bytes Used memory in bytes (for types 'node', 'qemu' and 'lxc').
    # TYPE pve_memory_usage_bytes gauge
    pve_memory_usage_bytes{id="qemu/100"} 1.6573280275e+010
    pve_memory_usage_bytes{id="node/proxmox"} 5.3907812352e+010
    # HELP pve_network_transmit_bytes The amount of traffic in bytes that was sent from the guest over the network since it was started. (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc') DEPRECATED: use pve_network_transmit_bytes_total instead.
    # TYPE pve_network_transmit_bytes gauge
    pve_network_transmit_bytes{id="qemu/100"} 7.75070828e+09
    # HELP pve_network_transmit_bytes_total The amount of traffic in bytes that was sent from the guest over the network since it was started. (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc')
    # TYPE pve_network_transmit_bytes_total counter
    pve_network_transmit_bytes_total{id="qemu/100"} 7.75070828e+09
    # HELP pve_network_receive_bytes The amount of traffic in bytes that was sent to the guest over the network since it was started. (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc') DEPRECATED: use pve_network_receive_bytes_total instead.
    # TYPE pve_network_receive_bytes gauge
    pve_network_receive_bytes{id="qemu/100"} 1.529756162e+09
    # HELP pve_network_receive_bytes_total The amount of traffic in bytes that was sent to the guest over the network since it was started. (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc')
    # TYPE pve_network_receive_bytes_total counter
    pve_network_receive_bytes_total{id="qemu/100"} 1.529756162e+09
    # HELP pve_disk_write_bytes The amount of bytes the guest wrote to its block devices since the guest was started. This info is not available for all storage types. (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc') DEPRECATED: use pve_disk_written_bytes_total instead.
    # TYPE pve_disk_write_bytes gauge
    pve_disk_write_bytes{id="qemu/100"} 1.50048127488e+011
    # HELP pve_disk_written_bytes_total The amount of bytes the guest wrote to its block devices since the guest was started. This info is not available for all storage types. (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc')
    # TYPE pve_disk_written_bytes_total counter
    pve_disk_written_bytes_total{id="qemu/100"} 1.50048127488e+011
    # HELP pve_disk_read_bytes The amount of bytes the guest read from its block devices since the guest was started. This info is not available for all storage types. (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc') DEPRECATED: use pve_disk_read_bytes_total instead.
    # TYPE pve_disk_read_bytes gauge
    pve_disk_read_bytes{id="qemu/100"} 7.473739264e+09
    # HELP pve_disk_read_bytes_total The amount of bytes the guest read from its block devices since the guest was started. This info is not available for all storage types. (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc')
    # TYPE pve_disk_read_bytes_total counter
    pve_disk_read_bytes_total{id="qemu/100"} 7.473739264e+09
    # HELP pve_cpu_usage_ratio CPU utilization (for types 'node', 'qemu' and 'lxc').
    # TYPE pve_cpu_usage_ratio gauge
    pve_cpu_usage_ratio{id="qemu/100"} 0.105009724408557
    pve_cpu_usage_ratio{id="node/proxmox"} 0.984243806697115
    # HELP pve_cpu_usage_limit Number of available CPUs (for types 'node', 'qemu' and 'lxc').
    # TYPE pve_cpu_usage_limit gauge
    pve_cpu_usage_limit{id="qemu/100"} 1.0
    pve_cpu_usage_limit{id="node/proxmox"} 4.0
    # HELP pve_uptime_seconds Uptime of node or virtual guest in seconds (for types 'node', 'qemu' and 'lxc').
    # TYPE pve_uptime_seconds gauge
    pve_uptime_seconds{id="qemu/100"} 315039.0
    pve_uptime_seconds{id="node/proxmox"} 315069.0
    # HELP pve_storage_shared Whether or not the storage is shared among cluster nodes
    # TYPE pve_storage_shared gauge
    pve_storage_shared{id="storage/proxmox/local"} 0.0
    pve_storage_shared{id="storage/proxmox/local-lvm"} 0.0
    pve_storage_shared{id="storage/proxmox/vms"} 0.0
    # HELP pve_ha_state HA service status (for HA managed VMs).
    # TYPE pve_ha_state gauge
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="stopped"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="request_stop"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="request_start"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="request_start_balance"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="started"} 1.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="fence"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="recovery"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="migrate"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="relocate"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="freeze"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="qemu/100",state="error"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="node/proxmox",state="online"} 1.0
    pve_ha_state{id="node/proxmox",state="maintenance"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="node/proxmox",state="unknown"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="node/proxmox",state="fence"} 0.0
    pve_ha_state{id="node/proxmox",state="gone"} 0.0
    # HELP pve_lock_state The guest's current config lock (for types 'qemu' and 'lxc')
    # TYPE pve_lock_state gauge
    pve_lock_state{id="qemu/100",state="backup"} 0.0
    pve_lock_state{id="qemu/100",state="clone"} 0.0
    pve_lock_state{id="qemu/100",state="create"} 0.0
    pve_lock_state{id="qemu/100",state="migrate"} 0.0
    pve_lock_state{id="qemu/100",state="rollback"} 0.0
    pve_lock_state{id="qemu/100",state="snapshot"} 0.0
    pve_lock_state{id="qemu/100",state="snapshot-delete"} 0.0
    pve_lock_state{id="qemu/100",state="suspended"} 0.0
    pve_lock_state{id="qemu/100",state="suspending"} 0.0
    # HELP pve_guest_info VM/CT info
    # TYPE pve_guest_info gauge
    pve_guest_info{id="qemu/100",name="samplevm1",node="proxmox",type="qemu",tags="tag1;tag2"} 1.0
    # HELP pve_storage_info Storage info
    # TYPE pve_storage_info gauge
    pve_storage_info{content="iso,vztmpl,rootdir",id="storage/proxmox/local",node="proxmox",plugintype="dir",storage="local"} 1.0
    pve_storage_info{content="backup",id="storage/proxmox/local-lvm",node="proxmox",plugintype="lvm",storage="local-lvm"} 1.0
    pve_storage_info{content="images",id="storage/proxmox/vms",node="proxmox",plugintype="rbd",storage="vms"} 1.0
    # HELP pve_node_info Node info
    # TYPE pve_node_info gauge
    pve_node_info{id="node/proxmox",level="",name="proxmox",nodeid="0"} 1.0
    # HELP pve_subscription_info Proxmox VE subscription info (1 if present)
    # TYPE pve_subscription_info gauge
    pve_subscription_info{id="node/proxmox",level="c"} 1.0
    # HELP pve_subscription_status Proxmox VE subscription status (1 if matches status)
    # TYPE pve_subscription_status gauge
    pve_subscription_status{id="node/proxmox",status="new"} 0.0
    pve_subscription_status{id="node/proxmox",status="notfound"} 0.0
    pve_subscription_status{id="node/proxmox",status="active"} 1.0
    pve_subscription_status{id="node/proxmox",status="invalid"} 0.0
    pve_subscription_status{id="node/proxmox",status="expired"} 0.0
    pve_subscription_status{id="node/proxmox",status="suspended"} 0.0
    # HELP pve_subscription_next_due_timestamp_seconds Subscription next due date as Unix timestamp
    # TYPE pve_subscription_next_due_timestamp_seconds gauge
    pve_subscription_next_due_timestamp_seconds{id="node/proxmox"} 1.713382503e+09
    # HELP pve_onboot_status Proxmox vm config onboot value
    # TYPE pve_onboot_status gauge
    pve_onboot_status{id="qemu/201",node="proxmox",type="qemu"} 1.0
    # HELP pve_version_info Proxmox VE version info
    # TYPE pve_version_info gauge
    pve_version_info{release="7.1",repoid="6fe299a0",version="7.1-5"} 1.0
    # HELP pve_not_backed_up_total Total number of guests not covered by any backup job.
    # TYPE pve_not_backed_up_total gauge
    pve_not_backed_up_total{id="cluster/pvc"} 2.0
    # HELP pve_not_backed_up_info Present if guest is not covered by any backup job.
    # TYPE pve_not_backed_up_info gauge
    pve_not_backed_up_info{id="qemu/100"} 1.0
    pve_not_backed_up_info{id="qemu/101"} 1.0
    # HELP pve_replication_duration_seconds Proxmox vm replication duration
    # TYPE pve_replication_duration_seconds gauge
    pve_replication_duration_seconds{id="1-0"} 7.73584
    # HELP pve_replication_last_sync_timestamp_seconds Proxmox vm replication last_sync
    # TYPE pve_replication_last_sync_timestamp_seconds gauge
    pve_replication_last_sync_timestamp_seconds{id="1-0"} 1.713382503e+09
    # HELP pve_replication_last_try_timestamp_seconds Proxmox vm replication last_try
    # TYPE pve_replication_last_try_timestamp_seconds gauge
    pve_replication_last_try_timestamp_seconds{id="1-0"} 1.713382503e+09
    # HELP pve_replication_next_sync_timestamp_seconds Proxmox vm replication next_sync
    # TYPE pve_replication_next_sync_timestamp_seconds gauge
    pve_replication_next_sync_timestamp_seconds{id="1-0"} 1.7134689e+09
    # HELP pve_replication_failed_syncs Proxmox vm replication fail_count
    # TYPE pve_replication_failed_syncs gauge
    pve_replication_failed_syncs{id="1-0"} 0.0
    # HELP pve_replication_info Proxmox vm replication info
    # TYPE pve_replication_info gauge
    pve_replication_info{guest="qemu/1",id="1-0",source="node/proxmox1",target="node/proxmox2",type="local"} 1.0

Authentication
--------------

**Using pve.yml config file**

Example ``pve.yml`` for password authentication:

.. code:: yaml

    default:
        user: prometheus@pve
        password: sEcr3T!
        # Optional: set to false to skip SSL/TLS verification
        verify_ssl: true

Example ``pve.yml`` for `token authentication`_:

.. code:: yaml

   default:
       user: prometheus@pve
       token_name: "your-token-id"
       token_value: "..."

**Using environment variables:**

If the ``PVE_USER`` environment variable exists, then configuration is taken from
the environment instead of from the ``pve.yml`` config file. The following
environment variables are respected:

* ``PVE_USER``: user name

Required for password authentication:

* ``PVE_PASSWORD``: user password

Required for `token authentication`_:

* ``PVE_TOKEN_NAME``: token name
* ``PVE_TOKEN_VALUE``: token value

Optional:

* ``PVE_VERIFY_SSL``: Either ``true`` or ``false``, whether or not to verify PVE tls
  certificate. Defaults to ``true``.
* ``PVE_MODULE``: Name of the configuration module. Defaults to ``default``.

The configuration is passed directly into `proxmoxer.ProxmoxAPI()`_.

**Note on verify_ssl and certificate trust store:**

When operating PVE with self-signed certificates, then it is necessary to
either import the certificate into the local trust store (see this `SE answer`_
for Debian/Ubuntu) or add ``verify_ssl: false`` to the config dict as a sibling
to the credentials. Note that PVE `supports Let's Encrypt`_ out ouf the box. In
many cases setting up trusted certificates is the better option than operating
with self-signed certs.

Proxmox VE Configuration
------------------------

For security reasons it is essential to add a user with read-only access
(PVEAuditor role) for the purpose of metrics collection.

Refer to the  `Proxmox Documentation`_ for the several ways of creating a user.
Once created, assign the user the `/` path permission.

Prometheus Configuration
------------------------

The PVE exporter can be deployed either directly on a Proxmox VE node or
onto a separate machine.

Example config for PVE exporter running on PVE node:

.. code:: yaml

    scrape_configs:
      - job_name: 'pve'
        static_configs:
          - targets:
            - 192.168.1.2:9221  # Proxmox VE node with PVE exporter.
            - 192.168.1.3:9221  # Proxmox VE node with PVE exporter.
        metrics_path: /pve
        params:
          module: [default]
          cluster: ['1']
          node: ['1']

Example config for PVE exporter running on Prometheus host:

.. code:: yaml

    scrape_configs:
      - job_name: 'pve'
        static_configs:
          - targets:
            - 192.168.1.2  # Proxmox VE node.
            - 192.168.1.3  # Proxmox VE node.
        metrics_path: /pve
        params:
          module: [default]
          cluster: ['1']
          node: ['1']
        relabel_configs:
          - source_labels: [__address__]
            target_label: __param_target
          - source_labels: [__param_target]
            target_label: instance
          - target_label: __address__
            replacement: 127.0.0.1:9221  # PVE exporter.

**Note on alerting:**

You can do VM tag based alerting, by using joins on ``pve_guest_info`` metric. For
example, alerting only when VM with `critical` tag is down:

.. code:: promql

   (pve_guest_info{tags=~".*critical.*"} * on(id) group_left(name) pve_up{}) == 0

**Note on scraping large clusters:**

It is adviced to setup separate jobs to collect ``cluster`` metrics and
``node`` metrics in larger deployments. Scraping any node in a cluster with the
url params set to ``cluster=1&node=0`` results in the same set of metrics. Hence
cluster metrics can be scraped efficiently from a single node or from a subset
of cluster nodes (e.g., a different node selected on every scrape via
round-robin DNS).

Node metrics can only be scraped from a given node. In order to compile a
complete set of node metrics it is necessary to scrape every node in a cluster
with url params set to ``cluster=0&node=1``.


Grafana Dashboards
------------------

* `Proxmox via Prometheus by Pietro Saccardi`_

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   :target: https://github.com/prometheus-pve/prometheus-pve-exporter/actions/workflows/ci.yml
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   :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/prometheus-pve-exporter
.. _wiki: https://github.com/prometheus-pve/prometheus-pve-exporter/wiki
.. _`token authentication`: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/User_Management#pveum_tokens
.. _`proxmoxer.ProxmoxAPI()`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/proxmoxer
.. _`SE answer`: https://askubuntu.com/a/1007236
.. _`supports Let's Encrypt`: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#sysadmin_certificate_management
.. _`Proxmox Documentation`: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#pveum_permission_management
.. _`Proxmox via Prometheus by Pietro Saccardi`: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/10347-proxmox-via-prometheus/