Proxmox Archives - Geek is the Way! https://geekistheway.com/category/homelab/proxmox/ Trying to learn just a bit! Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:02:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/geekistheway.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-Screen-Shot-2022-06-05-at-18.01.59.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Proxmox Archives - Geek is the Way! https://geekistheway.com/category/homelab/proxmox/ 32 32 149526228 How to Natively Run Prometheus Plex Exporter on Proxmox LXC and Import on Grafana https://geekistheway.com/2025/12/28/how-to-natively-run-prometheus-plex-exporter-on-proxmox-lxc-and-import-on-grafana/ https://geekistheway.com/2025/12/28/how-to-natively-run-prometheus-plex-exporter-on-proxmox-lxc-and-import-on-grafana/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:02:19 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2786 If you are running a homelab like mine, you probably rely heavily on Proxmox to manage your infrastructure. I recently deployed a monitoring stack using Prometheus and Grafana within a lightweight LXC container, which I will post more about later. Everything was working perfectly until I decided to add metrics for my Plex Media Server....

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2025/12/28/how-to-natively-run-prometheus-plex-exporter-on-proxmox-lxc-and-import-on-grafana/feed/ 0 2786 Monitoring Speedtest on LAN using iPerf3 on Zabbix Agent https://geekistheway.com/2023/01/03/monitoring-speedtest-on-lan-using-iperf3-on-zabbix-agent/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/01/03/monitoring-speedtest-on-lan-using-iperf3-on-zabbix-agent/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:26:15 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2135 From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/01/03/monitoring-speedtest-on-lan-using-iperf3-on-zabbix-agent/feed/ 2 2135 Monitoring Speedtest on WAN using Zabbix Agent https://geekistheway.com/2023/01/03/monitoring-speedtest-on-wan-using-zabbix-agent/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/01/03/monitoring-speedtest-on-wan-using-zabbix-agent/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:48:03 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2132 From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/01/03/monitoring-speedtest-on-wan-using-zabbix-agent/feed/ 2 2132 Monitoring Proxmox VE using Zabbix Agent https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-proxmox-ve-using-zabbix-agent/ https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-proxmox-ve-using-zabbix-agent/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2023 03:50:49 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2113 From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-proxmox-ve-using-zabbix-agent/feed/ 24 2113 Monitoring Agentless Servers on Zabbix Server through ICMP Ping https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-agentless-servers-on-zabbix-server-through-icmp-ping/ https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-agentless-servers-on-zabbix-server-through-icmp-ping/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2023 02:33:45 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2109 From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-agentless-servers-on-zabbix-server-through-icmp-ping/feed/ 1 2109 Configuring Zabbix Agents on Linux servers https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/configuring-zabbix-agents-on-linux-servers/ https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/configuring-zabbix-agents-on-linux-servers/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2022 20:34:02 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2099 From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/configuring-zabbix-agents-on-linux-servers/feed/ 2 2099 Monitoring pfSense Server using Zabbix Agent https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-pfsense-server-using-zabbix-agent/ https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-pfsense-server-using-zabbix-agent/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:40:29 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2091 From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-pfsense-server-using-zabbix-agent/feed/ 5 2091 Monitoring FreeBSD Server using Zabbix Agent https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-freebsd-server-using-zabbix-agent/ https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-freebsd-server-using-zabbix-agent/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:36:03 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2088 From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-freebsd-server-using-zabbix-agent/feed/ 2 2088 Monitoring Linux Server using Zabbix Agent https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-linux-server-using-zabbix-agent/ https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-linux-server-using-zabbix-agent/#respond Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:24:25 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2085 From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-linux-server-using-zabbix-agent/feed/ 0 2085 Monitoring Apache Web Server using Zabbix Agent 2 https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-apache-web-server-using-zabbix-agent-2/ https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/31/monitoring-apache-web-server-using-zabbix-agent-2/#respond Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:14:27 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2080 From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will...

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