Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
docs(inputs.hddtemp): Document hddtemp removal and alternatives (#15658)
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
powersj authored Jul 24, 2024
1 parent 6874f41 commit 99a2df2
Showing 1 changed file with 13 additions and 0 deletions.
13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions plugins/inputs/hddtemp/README.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -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 <!-- @/docs/includes/plugin_config.md -->

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 99a2df2

Please sign in to comment.