High IO spikes during polls

matusnovak / prometheus-smartctl

HDD S.M.A.R.T exporter for Prometheus written in Python

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High IO spikes during polls #49

Closed trader-payne closed 9 months ago

trader-payne commented 9 months ago

My SAS drives don't seem to be so happy getting polled. Is there anything I can do to avoid this? The host has 32x Seagate SAS drives

ngosang commented 9 months ago

We are using the smartctl tool and we can't reduce the I/O usage. You can set the env var SMARTCTL_REFRESH_INTERVAL to a higher value to reduce the load.