diff --git a/plugins/proxmox/proxmox_vm_count b/plugins/proxmox/proxmox_vm_count
index bc622998..641ce9b0 100644
--- a/plugins/proxmox/proxmox_vm_count
+++ b/plugins/proxmox/proxmox_vm_count
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ if [ "$1" = "config" ]; then
     echo 'graph_title ProxMox - Number of VMs and LXCs'
     echo 'graph_vlabel Count'
     echo 'graph_category virtualization'
-    echo 'graph_args -l 0'
+    echo "graph_printf %6.0lf"
+    echo "graph_args -l 0 --base 1000"
     exit 0
 fi
 echo total.value "$total"