Grafana

The Goal # Add all 4 Proxmox VE cluster nodes (pve-mini2, pve-mini3, pve-mini5, pve-mini6) to the existing Prometheus/Grafana stack on LXC 30194. The monitoring stack already covered Graylog, Windows desktop, and PAN-OS firewall metrics – Proxmox was the last major gap. Approach: pve-exporter vs node_exporter # I evaluated two options:

Overview # Migrated the Prometheus + Grafana monitoring stack from a shared Docker VM to a dedicated LXC container. The shared VM hosted multiple stacks (pgAdmin, Portainer, monitoring) which created resource contention and made lifecycle management messy. Moving monitoring to its own LXC follows the homelab pattern of one service per container for cleaner isolation, backups, and management.