What infos should be reported with the proxmox piggyback api?

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Hey there,

I am new to checkmk and would like to monitor a single proxmox node and the VMs. I have read some conflicting information about which VM information can be retrieved via the Proxmox plugin.

After setting up the VM host with piggyback, those services are found:

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Is this the expected output? No cpu usage, no disk info, no network info?

The documentation sounds a little different: The special agent provides a lot of data about the VMs and containers

Am I missing something or is this all the Proxmox plugin is able to retrieve?

Thank you.

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Yes, pretty much. On LCX containers, you get another check for the disk utilization of the root file system.

For more monitoring data, you need to install the Checkmk Agent inside the guest system and switch to Agent based monitoring.

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Thank you for the answer. I will install the regular client on the VMs then.

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This is best practice anyways, as hypervisor-based monitoring can never compete with agent-based monitoring. Hypervisor-based monitoring always augments agent-based monitoring.