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HDD temperature

Plugin: python.d.plugin Module: hddtemp

Overview

This collector monitors disk temperatures.

It uses the hddtemp daemon to gather the metrics.

This collector is only supported on the following platforms:

  • Linux

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

By default, this collector will attempt to connect to the hddtemp daemon on 127.0.0.1:7634

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per HDD temperature instance

These metrics refer to the entire monitored application.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

MetricDimensionsUnit
hddtemp.temperaturesa dimension per diskCelsius

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

Setup

Prerequisites

Run hddtemp in daemon mode

You can execute hddtemp in TCP/IP daemon mode by using the -d argument.

So running hddtemp -d would run the daemon, by default on port 7634.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is python.d/hddtemp.conf.

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config python.d/hddtemp.conf

Options

There are 2 sections:

  • Global variables
  • One or more JOBS that can define multiple different instances to monitor.

The following options can be defined globally: priority, penalty, autodetection_retry, update_every, but can also be defined per JOB to override the global values.

Additionally, the following collapsed table contains all the options that can be configured inside a JOB definition.

Every configuration JOB starts with a job_name value which will appear in the dashboard, unless a name parameter is specified.

By default this collector will try to autodetect disks (autodetection works only for disk which names start with "sd"). However this can be overridden by setting the option disks to an array of desired disks.

Config options
NameDescriptionDefaultRequired
update_everySets the default data collection frequency.1no
priorityControls the order of charts at the netdata dashboard.60000no
autodetection_retrySets the job re-check interval in seconds.0no
penaltyIndicates whether to apply penalty to update_every in case of failures.yesno
nameJob name. This value will overwrite the job_name value. JOBS with the same name are mutually exclusive. Only one of them will be allowed running at any time. This allows autodetection to try several alternatives and pick the one that works.localno
devicesArray of desired disks to detect, in case their name doesn't start with sd.no
hostThe IP or HOSTNAME to connect to.localhostyes
portThe port to connect to.7634no

Examples

Basic

A basic example configuration.

localhost:
name: 'local'
host: '127.0.0.1'
port: 7634

Custom disk names

An example defining the disk names to detect.

Config
localhost:
name: 'local'
host: '127.0.0.1'
port: 7634
devices:
- customdisk1
- customdisk2

Multi-instance

Note: When you define multiple jobs, their names must be unique.

Collecting metrics from local and remote instances.

Config
localhost:
name: 'local'
host: '127.0.0.1'
port: 7634

remote_job:
name : 'remote'
host : 'http://192.0.2.1:2812'

Troubleshooting

Debug Mode

To troubleshoot issues with the hddtemp collector, run the python.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output should give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.

  • Navigate to the plugins.d directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that's not the case on your system, open netdata.conf and look for the plugins setting under [directories].

    cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
  • Switch to the netdata user.

    sudo -u netdata -s
  • Run the python.d.plugin to debug the collector:

    ./python.d.plugin hddtemp debug trace

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