/datadog-smartmon

DataDog plugin to report hard drive metrics

Primary LanguagePython

datadog-smartmon

Datadog plugin to report hard drive metrics

Introduction

A simple Datadog plugin to report hard drive stats. Uses pySMART to discover all hard drives and pushes all S.M.A.R.T information for each drive to DataDog. Useful for monitoring a file server or home nas.

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Instructions

  • Install smartmon tools
apt-get install smartmontools
  • Allow smartctl to be executed by non-root users (sorry!)
chmod +s /usr/sbin/smartctl
  • Install pySMART to the custom datadog embedded python location (seriously?!)
/opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/pip install pysmart
  • Copy over the custom check and check config file to the DataDog agent install directory
cp smartmon.yaml /etc/datadog-agent/conf.d/
cp smartmon.py /etc/datadog-agent/checks.d/
  • Restart the Datadog agent