Install latest/stable of smartctl-exporter
Ubuntu 16.04 or later?
Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.
Install using the command line
sudo snap install smartctl-exporter
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This snap includes smartctl_exporter to provide smartctl statistics via Prometheus.
Grafana dashboards can then be used to visualize the exported metrics, see for example:
https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/20204-smart-hdd/
How-To
How to install the snap:
sudo snap install smartctl-exporter
The snap will start collecting smartctl statistics via default port 9633
on localhost.
How to configure the service:
The smartctl-exporter can be configured by setting the snap configuration options.
For example:
# Get all the configuration options
sudo snap get smartctl-exporter
# Set a different exporter bind-address
sudo snap set smartctl-exporter web.listen-address=:9664
# Restart the exporter service to apply the changes
sudo snap restart smartctl-exporter
Reference
Available configurations options:
web.listen-address
: the address smartctl-exporter binds to.
The default is :9633
.log.level
: the log level of the smartctl-exporter. One of: [debug, info, warn, error]
The default is info
.smartctl.device-exclude
: Regexp of device names to exclude from automatic scanning. (mutually exclusive to device-include)smartctl.device-include
: Regexp of device names to include in automatic scanning. (mutually exclusive to device-exclude)Links
Upstream smartctl_exporter repository
https://github.com/prometheus-community/smartctl_exporter
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