The Ceph Dashboard is incredibly useful for monitoring your cluster’s health, but setting it up on Proxmox isn’t as straightforward as the documentation suggests. After wrestling with SSL certificates and password policies, here’s how to get it working properly.

Why You Want the Ceph Dashboard

The dashboard gives you a web interface to monitor your Ceph cluster without SSH’ing into nodes and running CLI commands. You can see OSD status, pool usage, performance metrics, and cluster health at a glance. It’s essential for any serious homelab running Ceph. Or if you are doing something unusual like use USB Drives for your storage media and want additional metrics for performance evaluation. I also have fast SSDs for my DB/WAL with the USB Drives for Data.

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