Closed NetwarSystem closed 5 years ago
I guess it's not in the scope of the project to support such peripherals. I guess you could write some code and use the statds plugin to feed netdata the values. This tutorial by @chrisys could serve as a good starting point, just skip influx for netdata.
The software will collect thermal data for the processors, and it appears it will for my Nvidia card, too. Seems to me ambient air temperature would be a common point of interest for anyone tracking those things, especially for remote systems.
Is the dividing line that it must be software/inside the box?
Hi, no there is no such line.
netdata will automatically collect information for all sensors that are reported by lm-sensors.
The lm-sensors module overlaps with the charts.d.plugin (bash) sensors module, that collects sensor information directly from /proc. Only one of them should be enabled at a given time. Try disabling python.d.plugin/lm-sensors and enabling charts.d.plugin/sensors. It may solve your problem.
If your sensors are not supported by lm-sensors, and are not exposed in /proc sensors, but you can somehow collect their values via console access, it would be extremely easy to write a bash module for netdata to collect data from USB sensors (check charts.d.plugin, there are many examples).
We welcome PRs. If you build a new data collection module for netdata, please make a PR so that the community can benefit from your work.
Try disabling python.d.plugin/lm-sensors and enabling charts.d.plugin/sensors.
sensors
to no
in python.d.conf
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to force
in charts.d.conf
netdata
Currently netdata team doesn't have enough capacity to work on this issue. We will be more than glad to accept a pull request with a solution to problem described here. This issue will be closed after another 60 days of inactivity.
I have some machines in a mixed office/warehouse environment in a climate where summer temperatures can hit 46C. Conditioned temperatures range from 21C to 32C depending on time of day and how many people are coming/going.
I've been lobbying for a separate "cool room", both for heat and dust control, but it's not been approved yet.
I see there are a bunch of different OEM versions of TEMPer USB thermometers in the $15 range on Amazon. I did a few searches and I am surprised there are no quick results showing Netdata supporting something like this.
Is there an inexpensive environmental monitor that is already supported?