Plugin: python.d.plugin Module: sensors
Examine Linux Sensors metrics with Netdata for insights into hardware health and performance.
Enhance your system’s reliability with real-time hardware health insights.
Reads system sensors information (temperature, voltage, electric current, power, etc.) via lm-sensors.
This collector is supported on all platforms.
This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.
The following type of sensors are auto-detected:
The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.
The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.
No action required.
The configuration file name for this integration is python.d/sensors.conf
.
You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config
script from the
Netdata config directory.
cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config python.d/sensors.conf
There are 2 sections:
The following options can be defined globally: priority, penalty, autodetection_retry, update_every, but can also be defined per JOB to override the global values.
Additionally, the following collapsed table contains all the options that can be configured inside a JOB definition.
Every configuration JOB starts with a job_name
value which will appear in the dashboard, unless a name
parameter is specified.
Name | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|
types | The types of sensors to collect. | temperature, fan, voltage, current, power, energy, humidity | True |
update_every | Sets the default data collection frequency. | 1 | False |
priority | Controls the order of charts at the netdata dashboard. | 60000 | False |
autodetection_retry | Sets the job re-check interval in seconds. | 0 | False |
penalty | Indicates whether to apply penalty to update_every in case of failures. | yes | False |
Default configuration.
types:
- temperature
- fan
- voltage
- current
- power
- energy
- humidity
Metrics grouped by scope.
The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.
Metrics related to chips. Each chip provides a set of the following metrics, each having the chip name in the metric name as reported by sensors -u
.
This scope has no labels.
Metrics:
Metric | Dimensions | Unit |
---|---|---|
sensors.temperature | a dimension per sensor | Celsius |
sensors.voltage | a dimension per sensor | Volts |
sensors.current | a dimension per sensor | Ampere |
sensors.power | a dimension per sensor | Watt |
sensors.fan | a dimension per sensor | Rotations/min |
sensors.energy | a dimension per sensor | Joule |
sensors.humidity | a dimension per sensor | Percent |
There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.
To troubleshoot issues with the sensors
collector, run the python.d.plugin
with the debug option enabled. The output
should give you clues as to why the collector isn’t working.
Navigate to the plugins.d
directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
. If that’s not the case on
your system, open netdata.conf
and look for the plugins
setting under [directories]
.
cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
Switch to the netdata
user.
sudo -u netdata -s
Run the python.d.plugin
to debug the collector:
./python.d.plugin sensors debug trace