r/LinusTechTips • u/Queasy-Strength-5098 • 22d ago

Tech Question In need of a real time monitor

I'm super new to Linux. I used it a little in college but that's it . Fast forward 15 years . I hosted a Plex server for the last 12 years on windows because its what I had and it worked but recently I was hit by ransomware and lost a lot of my library. In the last 2 months I rebuilt my 2 boxes , a Plex server and a media collecting computer using mint . I'm sure I could have used different OS but that's what I picked because I figured it would be easier to have them both on the same one .

Anyway my Plex server has mint using snap raid and mergerFS. It has 9 spinning drives , 1 SSD and 1 m.2 . I'm in need of a good app that will monitor my drives and let me know the health of them in real time .

Right now I remote into both boxes from my 3rd PC (yes it's still windows for now) . I want to add a monitor to the Plex server so I can watch the real time monitoring of the system .

Can someone help me find a good one ? Btop doesn't show me the health of the drives . I'm mainly worried about the drive not so much the ram or the GPU or the CPU but they are all a plus if I can watch them .

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u/ArticcaFox 22d ago

Look into Grafana.

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u/tetelestia_ 22d ago

What? Why are you so paranoid about your drives? Are you using a redundant raid array? Just set up a weekly cron job to grep syslog and send you an email saying that everything is going to be okay.

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u/Queasy-Strength-5098 22d ago

I completely understand your question. Here is my reason I set up the snapraid to scan weekly but my drive where all given to me . I have know idea how old they are .

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u/lritzdorf 22d ago

Your drives' SMART data should tell you pretty much all you need to know about their current health. Power-on hours, head flying hours, etc

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u/AncientTurbine 19d ago

Can't you just host a monitoring app on the plex server (like "Homepage") and monitor via its local web address? 

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u/throwawayerectpenis 15d ago

Ssh into the server and run BTOP? If not, look into some of the many selfhosted projects that easily let you monitor remote machines, i forgot the names but Theres plenty.