# Monitor drive error rates now that \`smartd\_log\` has been removed

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 11, 2024, 6:47am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593 "2024-07-11T06:47:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![cindy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/cindy/32/3770_2.png) [@cindy](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/cindy)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 6:47am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/1 "2024-07-11T06:47:28Z")

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With one of the latest releases (V1.46) smartd\_log was removed in favour of smartctl with pull request [#17600](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/17600). After I configured the new collector I sadly no longer have any information on the error rates on drives only a generalised pass/fail status , temperature and uptime metrics.

Is there a way to get back the read/write/verify corrected and uncorrected error rates back into the dashboard?

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**Author:** ![ilyam8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ilyam8/32/134_2.png) [@ilyam8](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ilyam8)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/2 "2024-07-11T09:00:24Z")

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Hi, @cindy. Smartctl is supposed to collect all SMART attributes.

 ![Screenshot 2024-07-11 at 11.56.22](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/c/c4da02a3f3639af04863b47da63b6a18be86c192.png)

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> After I configured the new collector

What do you mean configured? It doesn’t require configuration.

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If there are no SMART attributes for some disks, share (redact sensitive data if any):

```auto
# all devices
smartctl --json --scan

# replace "deviceName" and "deviceType" wit the values from the prev output
smartctl --json --all {deviceName} --device {deviceType}

```

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**Author:** ![cindy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/cindy/32/3770_2.png) [@cindy](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/cindy)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/3 "2024-07-11T09:29:25Z")

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Hi @ilyam8 thank you so much for your reply.

Very curious, for me it only shows a small subset of items see image below. I took as that they where showing any statistics at all it was working as intended hence my surprise the statistics where missing.  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/c/c404e3c79facd25eaf5d9b731072c2fd075f6223.png)

As for the ‘configuration’ I did, I was referring the parts from [the documentation](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/collecting-metrics/hardware-devices-and-sensors/s.m.a.r.t.#for-netdata-running-in-a-docker-container), I am running the collector in a docker container and had to add the drives and permission to the compose file as follows:  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/5/5847b49ce592d484afb5f07bac657d488baade99.png)

Running the commands as mentioned, I think the output is ‘ok’ but please advice if I am overlooking something.

The Scan Command gives me the disks I expect:

```auto
root:/# smartctl --json --scan
{
  "json_format_version": [
    1,
    0
  ],
  "smartctl": {
    "version": [
      7,
      3
    ],
    "svn_revision": "5338",
    "platform_info": "x86_64-linux-6.1.0-21-amd64",
    "build_info": "(local build)",
    "argv": [
      "smartctl",
      "--json",
      "--scan"
    ],
    "exit_status": 0
  },
  "devices": [
    {
      "name": "/dev/sda",
      "info_name": "/dev/sda",
      "type": "scsi",
      "protocol": "SCSI"
    },
    {
      "name": "/dev/sdc",
      "info_name": "/dev/sdc",
      "type": "scsi",
      "protocol": "SCSI"
    },
    {
      "name": "/dev/sdd",
      "info_name": "/dev/sdd",
      "type": "scsi",
      "protocol": "SCSI"
    },
    {
      "name": "/dev/sde",
      "info_name": "/dev/sde",
      "type": "scsi",
      "protocol": "SCSI"
    }
  ]
}

```

And the data seems to be outputted as far as I can tell (Only added one drive but all 4 show up with a similar set of values. Hidden only the drive type/sn)

```auto
root:/# smartctl --json --all /dev/sda --device scsi
{
  "json_format_version": [
    1,
    0
  ],
  "smartctl": {
    "version": [
      7,
      3
    ],
    "svn_revision": "5338",
    "platform_info": "x86_64-linux-6.1.0-21-amd64",
    "build_info": "(local build)",
    "argv": [
      "smartctl",
      "--json",
      "--all",
      "/dev/sda",
      "--device",
      "scsi"
    ],
    "exit_status": 0
  },
  "local_time": {
    "time_t": 1720689199,
    "asctime": "Thu Jul 11 09:13:19 2024 UTC"
  },
  "device": {
    "name": "/dev/sda",
    "info_name": "/dev/sda",
    "type": "scsi",
    "protocol": "SCSI"
  },
  "scsi_vendor": "HGST",
  "scsi_product": "~REDACTED~",
  "scsi_model_name": "~REDACTED~",
  "scsi_revision": "~REDACTED~",
  "scsi_version": "~REDACTED~",
  "user_capacity": {
    "blocks": 7814037168,
    "bytes": 4000787030016
  },
  "logical_block_size": 512,
  "scsi_lb_provisioning": {
    "name": "fully provisioned",
    "value": 0,
    "management_enabled": {
      "name": "LBPME",
      "value": 0
    },
    "read_zeros": {
      "name": "LBPRZ",
      "value": 0
    }
  },
  "rotation_rate": 7200,
  "form_factor": {
    "scsi_value": 2,
    "name": "3.5 inches"
  },
  "logical_unit_id": "~REDACTED~",
  "serial_number": "~REDACTED~",
  "device_type": {
    "scsi_terminology": "Peripheral Device Type [PDT]",
    "scsi_value": 0,
    "name": "disk"
  },
  "scsi_transport_protocol": {
    "name": "SAS (SPL-4)",
    "value": 6
  },
  "smart_support": {
    "available": true,
    "enabled": true
  },
  "temperature_warning": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "smart_status": {
    "passed": true
  },
  "temperature": {
    "current": 34,
    "drive_trip": 85
  },
  "power_on_time": {
    "hours": 1641,
    "minutes": 22
  },
  "scsi_start_stop_cycle_counter": {
    "year_of_manufacture": "2013",
    "week_of_manufacture": "51",
    "specified_cycle_count_over_device_lifetime": 50000,
    "accumulated_start_stop_cycles": 4,
    "specified_load_unload_count_over_device_lifetime": 600000,
    "accumulated_load_unload_cycles": 119
  },
  "scsi_grown_defect_list": 0,
  "scsi_error_counter_log": {
    "read": {
      "errors_corrected_by_eccfast": 647707,
      "errors_corrected_by_eccdelayed": 29,
      "errors_corrected_by_rereads_rewrites": 0,
      "total_errors_corrected": 647736,
      "correction_algorithm_invocations": 586730,
      "gigabytes_processed": "36537.378",
      "total_uncorrected_errors": 0
    },
    "write": {
      "errors_corrected_by_eccfast": 0,
      "errors_corrected_by_eccdelayed": 0,
      "errors_corrected_by_rereads_rewrites": 0,
      "total_errors_corrected": 0,
      "correction_algorithm_invocations": 13549,
      "gigabytes_processed": "2811.293",
      "total_uncorrected_errors": 0
    },
    "verify": {
      "errors_corrected_by_eccfast": 0,
      "errors_corrected_by_eccdelayed": 0,
      "errors_corrected_by_rereads_rewrites": 0,
      "total_errors_corrected": 0,
      "correction_algorithm_invocations": 2146,
      "gigabytes_processed": "0.000",
      "total_uncorrected_errors": 0
    }
  }
}

```

Any advice on where to troubleshoot would be very welcome!

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**Author:** ![ilyam8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ilyam8/32/134_2.png) [@ilyam8](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ilyam8)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 10:06am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/4 "2024-07-11T10:06:28Z")

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And if `smartctl --json --all /dev/sda --device sat`?

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**Author:** ![cindy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/cindy/32/3770_2.png) [@cindy](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/cindy)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/5 "2024-07-11T10:13:45Z")

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That seems to fail going off the exit status of ‘2’ :

```auto
root:/# smartctl --json --all /dev/sda --device sat
{
  "json_format_version": [
    1,
    0
  ],
  "smartctl": {
    "version": [
      7,
      3
    ],
    "svn_revision": "5338",
    "platform_info": "x86_64-linux-6.1.0-21-amd64",
    "build_info": "(local build)",
    "argv": [
      "smartctl",
      "--json",
      "--all",
      "/dev/sda",
      "--device",
      "sat"
    ],
    "exit_status": 2
  },
  "local_time": {
    "time_t": 1720692523,
    "asctime": "Thu Jul 11 10:08:43 2024 UTC"
  },
  "device": {
    "name": "/dev/sda",
    "info_name": "/dev/sda [SAT]",
    "type": "sat",
    "protocol": "ATA"
  }
}

```

I did notice FYI that I had /dev/sdc mapped twice once to sdc once to sdd in my screenshot before oops, correcting this sadly did not make a difference.

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**Author:** ![ilyam8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ilyam8/32/134_2.png) [@ilyam8](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ilyam8)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 10:26am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/6 "2024-07-11T10:26:55Z")

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Right. You have SCSI devices, they don’t have SMART attributes. What metrics were collected?

```auto
"scsi_error_counter_log": {
    "read": {
      "errors_corrected_by_eccfast": 647707,
      "errors_corrected_by_eccdelayed": 29,
      "errors_corrected_by_rereads_rewrites": 0,
      "total_errors_corrected": 647736,
      "correction_algorithm_invocations": 586730,
      "gigabytes_processed": "36537.378",
      "total_uncorrected_errors": 0
    },
    "write": {
      "errors_corrected_by_eccfast": 0,
      "errors_corrected_by_eccdelayed": 0,
      "errors_corrected_by_rereads_rewrites": 0,
      "total_errors_corrected": 0,
      "correction_algorithm_invocations": 13549,
      "gigabytes_processed": "2811.293",
      "total_uncorrected_errors": 0
    },
    "verify": {
      "errors_corrected_by_eccfast": 0,
      "errors_corrected_by_eccdelayed": 0,
      "errors_corrected_by_rereads_rewrites": 0,
      "total_errors_corrected": 0,
      "correction_algorithm_invocations": 2146,
      "gigabytes_processed": "0.000",
      "total_uncorrected_errors": 0
    }
  }

```

> read/write/verify corrected and uncorrected

anything else?

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**Author:** ![cindy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/cindy/32/3770_2.png) [@cindy](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/cindy)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 10:40am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/7 "2024-07-11T10:40:34Z")

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Makes sense, they are smart capable but they then do not report the statistics out to the OS if I understand it correctly?  
Based on the response from smartctl:

```auto
  "smart_support": {
    "available": true,
    "enabled": true
  },
.......,
  "smart_status": {
    "passed": true
  }

```

As for what they report the post above contained everything I know they do report, and for reference I added a line from the `smartd` log below:

```auto
2024-06-03 10:20:53;	read-corr-by-ecc-fast;136967;	read-corr-by-ecc-delayed;3;	read-corr-by-retry;0;	read-total-err-corrected;136970;	read-corr-algorithm-invocations;105598;	read-gb-processed;11625.882;	read-total-unc-errors;0;	write-corr-by-ecc-fast;0;	write-corr-by-ecc-delayed;0;	write-corr-by-retry;0;	write-total-err-corrected;0;	write-corr-algorithm-invocations;4185;	write-gb-processed;2136.859;	write-total-unc-errors;0;	verify-corr-by-ecc-fast;0;	verify-corr-by-ecc-delayed;0;	verify-corr-by-retry;0;	verify-total-err-corrected;0;	verify-corr-algorithm-invocations;890;	verify-gb-processed;0.000;	verify-total-unc-errors;0;	non-medium-errors;0;	temperature;33;

```

And these are the same metrics which where reported before with the old plugin:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/8/83e8a82da8e53e7f36b2eb5cc8d1266406c171f0.png)  
(Screenshot only showing one set but the rest where there as well)  
Is there any way to get these SCSI metrics into the dashboard with the current plugin?

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**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/8 "2024-07-11T12:41:34Z")

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> Is there any way to get these SCSI metrics into the dashboard with the current plugin?

I will need to update smartctl collector.

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**Author:** ![cindy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/cindy/32/3770_2.png) [@cindy](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/cindy)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/9 "2024-07-11T13:33:18Z")

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Clear, thank you so much for the help so far already. It really helps to know why it was not showing.  
(Should I mark this topic as solved, or leave it open till such time an update is available?)  
Is there anything I can do to help out to update the collector?

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**Author:** ![ilyam8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ilyam8/32/134_2.png) [@ilyam8](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ilyam8)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-drive-error-rates-now-that-smartd-log-has-been-removed/5593/10 "2024-07-11T20:01:54Z")

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Fixed in [18119](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/18119).