# How to add monitoring for an external ProxySQL container?

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**Category:** PMM 1.x\
**Created:** [December 23, 2018, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-monitoring-for-an-external-proxysql-container/6756 "2018-12-23T06:57:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![fward1208](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/fward1208/32/1249_2.png) [@fward1208](https://forums.percona.com/u/fward1208)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2018, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-monitoring-for-an-external-proxysql-container/6756/1 "2018-12-23T06:57:13Z")

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How about monitoring for an external Proxysql container? Using this method above does not work for that because stats and admin cannot remotely login.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Coburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/michael_coburn/32/18_2.png) [@Michael\_Coburn](https://forums.percona.com/u/Michael_Coburn)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-monitoring-for-an-external-proxysql-container/6756/2 "2019-02-04T14:16:35Z")

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Hi [fward1208](https://percona.vanillacommunities.com/profile/x/x/42561)

I moved your post to a separate thread in order to get more visibility and because it wasn’t related to the initial thread topic.

Can you modify proxysql.cnf? For example I have configured mine to listen on 6032  
mysql\_ifaces=“0.0.0.0:6032;/tmp/proxysql\_admin.sock”  
Then you could forward that to the docker container.

Let me know if this helps, or if you have further questions!