Where can I see the PBS stats?

[zolakt]

Hi,

first of all, great project. Unfortunately I'm getting a little lost hot to add PBS monitoring.

First I added a PVE node (it was auto discovered).
Then I added a PBS node (wasn't auto discovered).
PVE and PBS are running on the same host, same IP, just different port.

After adding PBS, I don't really see any difference. The backups were visible after adding PVE already.
And things that I clicked in the PBS config (Monitor Sync Jobs, Monitor Verify Jobs, Monitor Prune Jobs, Monitor Garbage Collection Jobs) I can't find anywhere in the UI. I've seen some screenshots of the "PBS tab" in old issues. I don't have one.

I've also read that the PBS node NODE_NAME needs to be the same as the hostname on the machine, and I've set it to that, but still no "PBS tab". In my case the hostname is "proxmox" for both PVE and PBS.

What am I doing wrong?

[zolakt]

Btw. after adding a PBS node in Pulse I'm constantly seeing this error in PBS logs:

Sep 10 12:52:24 proxmox proxmox-backup-proxy[1084]: GET /api2/json/admin/datastore/pbs-host/rrd: 400 Bad Request: [client [::ffff:192.168.2.101]:53840] parameter verification failed:
- 'cf': parameter is missing and it is not optional.
- 'timeframe': parameter is missing and it is not optional.

[rcourtman]

hey @zolakt,

you're seeing the expected behavior. When PBS is configured as storage on your PVE nodes, the backups are already visible through the PVE API - that's why you saw them before adding the PBS node.

What adding a PBS node actually gives you:

• PBS host metrics (CPU, memory, uptime) shown in Dashboard cards (if you have Sys.Audit permission)
• Namespace information and filtering in the Backups tab
• Additional backup metadata in the backup list
• PBS datastore statistics in the Storage tab

About the "PBS tab" - in v4, there's no separate PBS tab. Everything is integrated into existing tabs (Dashboard, Storage, Backups).

The RRD API error - this is harmless. It happens because we're trying to fetch metrics that require special permissions. The code already has the correct parameters (cf=average&timeframe=hour), but PBS requires higher privileges for some endpoints. You can ignore these errors.

The job monitoring checkboxes (sync, verify, prune, gc) - these are placeholders for future functionality, toggling them doesn't do anything yet.

To verify PBS is working properly:

• Dashboard should show a PBS card with version info
• Backups tab should show namespaces and allow filtering by namespace
• Storage tab should list PBS datastores

The PBS node name should match your PBS hostname for best results. Since both PVE and PBS run on the same host, using "proxmox" for both is fine.