Beats: Collect SMART data with metricbeat

[jsoriano]

Data provided by SMART is useful to detect failures on disks or to prevent incidences caused by disk degradation. It'd be nice to add a system metricset that collects this information.

SMART data is usually collected using smartmontools, we may need to find a golang-based alternative for that.

[sayden]

I found this library that could potentially help with the implementation https://github.com/dswarbrick/smart

[jsoriano]

Other option could be to parse smartd logs with filebeat.

[recrsn]

I would like to work on this

[jsoriano]

@agathver great! I don't think anyone is working on this yet, so you are welcome to start with this :slightly_smiling_face:

What is the approach you want to try?

Thanks!

[recrsn]

@jsoriano I feel the smartmontools approach is more robust and mature. The Go library will be easier but has a warning of being experimental.

We already have other modules which require additional software, so this should not be an issue IMO.

[jsoriano]

How would you use smartmontools? I think we don't have other modules executing commands at the moment and I'd say we don't want to make an exception here. If we can use it as library, query a daemon, or parse their logs I think we'd be fine.

[jsoriano]

I agree in any case that using smartmontools if possible would be preferable to other options.

[recrsn]

My initial idea was to parse the output of smartctl. The other alternative is to parse logs by smartd which goes into syslog.

[cskowronnek]

Any news here? Is there a way to pull SMART data from Windows devices?

[fearful-symmetry]

This sounds fun to pick up. I need to look into how smartctl works, but if it's just doing ioctl calls to some disk device it probably won't be that hard to re-implement.

[recrsn]

@fearful-symmetry You can take a look at WMI as well, it provides SMART data as well

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[guillaumedsde]

kind bump :) I'd be quite interested in this feature

[suprematis]

Bump here too!!

[fearful-symmetry]

Gonna keep this open and see if we can at least keep it on our radar.