From 4c8c3232790148ac485a1290f14bcd59055c21e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Powers Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:22:32 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] docs(inputs.hddtemp): Document hddtemp removal and alternatives (#15658) (cherry picked from commit 99a2df22ba04a0a2296e265adc228aea26e40680) --- plugins/inputs/hddtemp/README.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/plugins/inputs/hddtemp/README.md b/plugins/inputs/hddtemp/README.md index 3123cdeb0b195..00f407466fb9c 100644 --- a/plugins/inputs/hddtemp/README.md +++ b/plugins/inputs/hddtemp/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ This plugin reads data from hddtemp daemon. Hddtemp should be installed and its daemon running. +## OS Support & Alternatives + +This plugin depends on the availability of the `hddtemp` binary. The upstream +project is not active and Debian made the decision to remove it in Debian +Bookworm. This means the rest of the Debian ecosystem no longer has this binary +in later releases, like Ubuntu 22.04. + +As an alternative consider using the [`smartctl` plugin]. This parses the full +JSON output from `smartctl`, which includes temperature data, in addition to +much more data about devices in a system. + +[`smartctl` plugin]: ../smartctl/README.md + ## Global configuration options In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support