Scrutiny is a Hard Drive Health Dashboard & Monitoring solution, merging manufacturer provided S.M.A.R.T metrics with real-world failure rates.
If you run a server with more than a couple of hard drives, you’re probably already familiar with S.M.A.R.T and the smartd daemon. If not, it’s an incredible open source project described as the following:These S.M.A.R.T hard drive self-tests can help you detect and replace failing hard drives before they cause permanent data loss. However, there’s a couple issues with smartd:There are more than a hundred S.M.A.R.T attributes, however smartd does not differentiate between critical and informational metricssmartd does not record S.M.A.R.T attribute history, so it can be hard to determine if an attribute is degrading slowly over time.S.M.A.R.T attribute thresholds are set by the manufacturer. In some cases these thresholds are unset, or are so high that they can only be used to confirm a failed drive, rather than detecting a drive about to fail.smartd is a command line only tool. For head-less servers a web UI would be more valuable.Scrutiny is a Hard Drive Health Dashboard & Monitoring solution, merging manufacturer provided S.M.A.R.T metrics with real-world failure rates.
