# Provides metrics from Proxmox nodes (Proxmox Virtual Environment > 6.2).
[[inputs.proxmox]]
  ## API connection configuration. The API token was introduced in Proxmox v6.2.
  ## Required permissions for user and token: PVEAuditor role on /.
  base_url = "https://:8006/api2/json"
  api_token = "USER@REALM!TOKENID=UUID"

  ## Node name, defaults to OS hostname
  ## Unless Telegraf is on the same host as Proxmox, setting this is required.
  # node_name = ""

  ## Additional tags of the VM stats data to add as a tag
  ## Supported values are "vmid" and "status"
  # additional_vmstats_tags = []

  ## Optional TLS Config
  # tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  ## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
  # insecure_skip_verify = false

  ## HTTP response timeout (default: 5s)
  # response_timeout = "5s"

## Create a influx user with PVEAuditor role
pveum user add influx@pve
pveum acl modify / -role PVEAuditor -user influx@pve
## Create a token with the PVEAuditor role
pveum user token add influx@pve monitoring -privsep 1
pveum acl modify / -role PVEAuditor -token 'influx@pve!monitoring'

proxmox,host=pxnode,node_fqdn=pxnode.example.com,vm_fqdn=vm1.example.com,vm_id=112,vm_name=vm1,vm_type=lxc cpuload=0.147998116735236,disk_free=4461129728i,disk_total=5217320960i,disk_used=756191232i,disk_used_percentage=14,mem_free=1046827008i,mem_total=1073741824i,mem_used=26914816i,mem_used_percentage=2,status="running",swap_free=536698880i,swap_total=536870912i,swap_used=172032i,swap_used_percentage=0,uptime=1643793i 1595457277000000000