steampipe-plugin-proxmox

README

Steampipe Plugin: Proxmox

Use SQL to query your Proxmox VE cluster — nodes, virtual machines, LXC containers, storage, networking, tasks, users, and resource pools.

Steampipe is an open source CLI that exposes APIs and services as a high-performance relational database, giving you the ability to write SQL-based queries to explore dynamic data. This plugin adds Proxmox VE as a queryable data source.

Installation

Option 1 — Install from a published release (recommended)

steampipe plugin install ghcr.io/becash143/proxmox

Option 2 — Build and install locally from source

git clone https://github.com/becash143/steampipe-plugin-proxmox.git
cd steampipe-plugin-proxmox
go build -o steampipe-plugin-proxmox.plugin .
mkdir -p ~/.steampipe/plugins/local/proxmox
cp steampipe-plugin-proxmox.plugin ~/.steampipe/plugins/local/proxmox/steampipe-plugin-proxmox.plugin
chmod +x ~/.steampipe/plugins/local/proxmox/steampipe-plugin-proxmox.plugin

When installed locally, reference the plugin as local/proxmox in your connection config (see below).

Configuration

Create ~/.steampipe/config/proxmox.spc with your connection details.

Authenticate with an API token (recommended)

connection "proxmox" {
  plugin     = "local/proxmox"          # or "ghcr.io/becash143/proxmox" if installed via Option 1
  endpoint   = "https://your-proxmox-host:8006"
  api_token  = "user@realm!tokenid"     # e.g. "bikash@pve!inventory"
  api_secret = "your-token-secret"
  insecure   = true                     # set false if using a trusted/valid TLS certificate
}

Create an API token in the Proxmox web UI under Datacenter → Permissions → API Tokens. For a read-only inventory tool like this plugin, assign the token the PVEAuditor role at path /, and make sure Privilege Separation is unchecked (or an explicit role is granted) so the token can see VMs, containers, and other resources — not just nodes.

Authenticate with a username and password

connection "proxmox" {
  plugin   = "local/proxmox"
  endpoint = "https://your-proxmox-host:8006"
  username = "root@pam"
  password = "your-password"
  insecure = true
}

Only one authentication method is required — set either api_token/api_secret or username/password, not both.

Argument	Type	Required	Description
endpoint	string	Yes	Base URL of your Proxmox API, e.g. https://proxmox.example.com:8006
api_token	string	No*	API token ID in user@realm!tokenid format
api_secret	string	No*	API token secret
username	string	No*	Username in user@realm format (alternative to token auth)
password	string	No*	Password for the given username
insecure	bool	No	Skip TLS certificate verification. Defaults to false.

* Either the token pair or the username/password pair is required.

Get Involved

• Source code: github.com/becash143/steampipe-plugin-proxmox
• Steampipe: steampipe.io
• Issues and feature requests: open a GitHub issue on this repo

Tables

Table	Description
proxmox_node	Physical nodes in the Proxmox cluster
proxmox_vm	QEMU virtual machines across all nodes
proxmox_container	LXC containers across all nodes
proxmox_cluster_resource	Unified view of nodes, VMs, containers, storage, and pools in one call
proxmox_storage	Configured storage pools and their usage
proxmox_network	Network interfaces on each node
proxmox_task	Recent task/job history per node
proxmox_user	Proxmox access-control users
proxmox_pool	Resource pools

Example Queries

All running VMs, sorted by memory usage:

select
  name,
  node,
  status,
  mem,
  maxmem
from
  proxmox_vm
where
  status = 'running'
order by
  mem desc;

VM and container count per node:

select
  node,
  count(*) filter (where type = 'qemu') as vms,
  count(*) filter (where type = 'lxc') as containers
from
  proxmox_cluster_resource
where
  type in ('qemu', 'lxc')
group by
  node;

Storage pools nearing capacity:

select
  storage,
  type,
  used,
  total,
  round((used::numeric / nullif(total, 0)) * 100, 1) as percent_used
from
  proxmox_storage
where
  total > 0
order by
  percent_used desc;

Failed tasks in the last day:

select
  node,
  type,
  user,
  status,
  to_timestamp(start_time) as started_at
from
  proxmox_task
where
  status != 'OK'
  and start_time > extract(epoch from now() - interval '1 day')
order by
  start_time desc;

Development

Requires Go 1.26+ and the Steampipe CLI.

git clone https://github.com/becash143/steampipe-plugin-proxmox.git
cd steampipe-plugin-proxmox
go build -o steampipe-plugin-proxmox.plugin .

Copy the resulting binary to ~/.steampipe/plugins/local/proxmox/steampipe-plugin-proxmox.plugin, restart the Steampipe service, and query away.

License

Apache License 2.0