scrutiny

Overview

Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends and Real World Failure Thresholds. Scrutiny is a hard drive health dashboard and monitoring solution, merging manufacturer-provided S.M.A.R.T metrics with real-world failure rates from Backblaze. Includes web dashboard, metrics collector, and InfluxDB in a single container. You must add each drive as a Device in the container settings. Alternatively, toggle Privileged mode to ON in the Unraid Docker UI to grant access to all drives automatically (less secure).

Runtime arguments

Web UI: http://[IP]:[PORT:8080]/web/dashboard
Network: bridge
Shell: bash
Privileged: false
Extra Params: --cap-add SYS_RAWIO --cap-add SYS_ADMIN

Template configuration

WebUI PortPorttcp

Web dashboard port.

Target: 8080
Default: 8080

InfluxDB PortPorttcp

InfluxDB admin port. Only needed if you want direct access to InfluxDB.

Target: 8086
Default: 8086

ConfigPathrw

Scrutiny configuration and SQLite database.

Target: /opt/scrutiny/config
Default: /mnt/user/appdata/scrutiny/config

DatabasePathrw

InfluxDB time-series data storage.

Target: /opt/scrutiny/influxdb
Default: /mnt/user/appdata/scrutiny/influxdb

UdevPathro

Required for device detection. Do not change.

Target: /run/udev
Default: /run/udev

Disk 1Device

First disk to monitor. Add more Device entries for additional disks. For NVMe, pass both /dev/nvme0 (controller) and /dev/nvme0n1 (namespace).

Default: /dev/sda

Cron ScheduleVariable

S.M.A.R.T data collection schedule (cron format). Default: daily at midnight.

Target: COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE
Default: 0 0 * * *

Run on StartupVariable

Run S.M.A.R.T data collection immediately on container startup.

Target: COLLECTOR_RUN_STARTUP
Default: false

TimezoneVariable

Timezone (e.g. America/New_York). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

Target: TZ

MQTT EnabledVariable

Enable Home Assistant MQTT Discovery. Drives will auto-appear in Home Assistant.

Target: SCRUTINY_WEB_MQTT_ENABLED
Default: false

MQTT BrokerVariable

MQTT broker URL (e.g. tcp://mosquitto:1883). Required when MQTT is enabled.

Target: SCRUTINY_WEB_MQTT_BROKER

Links

Template Support Registry Project

Details

Repository

ghcr.io/starosdev/scrutiny:latest-omnibus

Registry

https://github.com/Starosdev/scrutiny/pkgs/container/scrutiny

Last Updated2026-05-31

First Seen2026-03-04

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