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.

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?!)

sudo -Hu dd-agent /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