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Starting with Proxmox VE 4.0, you can define external metric servers, which will
be sent various stats about your hosts, virtual machines and storages.
Currently supported are:
Graphite (see http://graphiteapp.org )
InfluxDB (see https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/influxdb/ )
The server definitions are saved in /etc/pve/status.cfg
Graphite server configuration
The definition of a server is:
 graphite: your-id
    server your-server
    port your-port
    path your-path
where your-port defaults to 2003 and your-path defaults to proxmox
Proxmox VE sends the data over UDP, so the graphite server has to be configured
for this.
Influxdb plugin configuration
The definition is:
 influxdb: your-id
    server your-server
    port your-port
Proxmox VE sends the data over UDP, so the influxdb server has to be configured
for this.
Here is an example configuration for influxdb (on your influxdb server):
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   enabled = true
   bind-address = "0.0.0.0:8089"
   database = "proxmox"
   batch-size = 1000
   batch-timeout = "1s"
With this configuration, your server listens on all IP addresses on
port 8089, and writes the data in the proxmox database
Multiple Definitions and Example
The id is optional, but if you want to have multiple definitions of a single
type, then the ids must be defined and different from each other.
Here is an example of a finished status.cfg
 graphite:
    server 10.0.0.5
 influxdb: influx1
    server 10.0.0.6
    port 8089
 influxdb: influx2
    server 10.0.0.7
    port 8090
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