Linux Sensors (lm-sensors)
Plugin: go.d.plugin Module: sensors
Overview
This collector gathers real-time system sensor statistics, including temperature, voltage, current, power, fan speed, energy consumption, and humidity, utilizing the sensors binary.
This collector is supported on all platforms.
This collector only supports collecting metrics from a single instance of this integration.
Default Behavior
Auto-Detection
The following type of sensors are auto-detected:
- temperature
- fan
- voltage
- current
- power
- energy
- humidity
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 sensor
These metrics refer to the sensor.
Labels:
Label | Description |
---|---|
chip | The hardware component responsible for the sensor monitoring. |
feature | The specific sensor or monitoring point provided by the chip. |
Metrics:
Metric | Dimensions | Unit |
---|---|---|
sensors.sensor_temperature | temperature | Celsius |
sensors.sensor_voltage | voltage | Volts |
sensors.sensor_current | current | Amperes |
sensors.sensor_power | power | Watts |
sensors.sensor_fan_speed | fan | RPM |
sensors.sensor_energy | energy | Joules |
sensors.sensor_humidity | humidity | percent |
Alerts
There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.
Setup
Prerequisites
Install lm-sensors
- Install
lm-sensors
using your distribution's package manager. - Run
sensors-detect
to detect hardware monitoring chips.
Configuration
File
The configuration file name for this integration is go.d/sensors.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 go.d/sensors.conf
Options
The following options can be defined globally: update_every.
Config options
Name | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|
update_every | Data collection frequency. | 10 | no |
binary_path | Path to the sensors binary. If an absolute path is provided, the collector will use it directly; otherwise, it will search for the binary in directories specified in the PATH environment variable. | /usr/bin/sensors | yes |
timeout | Timeout for executing the binary, specified in seconds. | 2 | no |
Examples
Custom binary path
The executable is not in the directories specified in the PATH environment variable.
Config
jobs:
- name: sensors
binary_path: /usr/local/sbin/sensors
Troubleshooting
Debug Mode
To troubleshoot issues with the sensors
collector, run the go.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, opennetdata.conf
and look for theplugins
setting under[directories]
.cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
Switch to the
netdata
user.sudo -u netdata -s
Run the
go.d.plugin
to debug the collector:./go.d.plugin -d -m sensors
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