Proxmox Machine Power Consumption

[cianiandreadev]

🌟 Briefly describe the feature

Proxmox Machine Power Consumption UI

📝 Detailed description

Hi All,

Now sure the feasibility of this, but I guess many would be happy to have a UI/Exporter for the power consumption of the Proxmox machine (not VMs, but machine itself).

I had a research and I notices is everything but easy to obtain, but many some of you have some idea.

I try to open this topic, maybe is utopistic, but who knows.

Andrea

💡 Why is this useful?

Many of the users use this scripts for self hosted racks at home and I believe would be very useful for many to know the power consumption (in Watt or other ways) of their machines.
If the system has an exporter (for Prometheus/Grafana) would unleash the possibilities for integration for many users.

[tremor021]

Proxmox itself don't track power consumption. If your server has IPMI (Supermicro, Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.) then you can use ipmitool to get such metric.

https://github.com/prometheus-community/ipmi_exporter

There is a exporter for Prometheus for ipmi

[MickLesk]

Or maybe add as request to pulse / @rcourtman

[cianiandreadev]

Hi @tremor021 ,

Yes, I know. That was the feature request about. Maybe with a plugin can be added? Not sure. Just asking.
@MickLesk I would guess inside a VM/LXC is impossible to know this. Isn't it?

[MickLesk]

since some releases he have "agent" and "host-agent" in the release files, idk what they do. But maybe it is the right?