--- title: Monitor Your Drive Health with Performance Co-Pilot on... description: Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) can be used on Fedora to continuously monitor drive health via SMART metrics, NVMe error logs, and Seagate FARM telemetry — going... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/monitor-your-drive-health-with-performance-co-pilot-on-fedora-gievtfzw0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Monitor Your Drive Health with Performance Co-Pilot on Fedora | daily.dev og:description: Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) can be used on Fedora to continuously monitor drive health via SMART metrics, NVMe error logs, and Seagate FARM telemetry — going... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/monitor-your-drive-health-with-performance-co-pilot-on-fedora-gievtfzw0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GieVTFzw0.png og:image:alt: Monitor Your Drive Health with Performance Co-Pilot on Fedora og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Monitor Your Drive Health with Performance Co-Pilot on Fedora **[Fedora Magazine](https://daily.dev/sources/fedoramag)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) can be used on Fedora to continuously monitor drive health via SMART metrics, NVMe error logs, and Seagate FARM telemetry — going beyond one-time snapshots. The guide covers installing the SMART PMDA, querying key metrics (temperature, wear level, reallocated sectors), using WWID-based drive tracking to survive device renames, setting up automated alerts with pmie, logging historical data with pmlogger, and building a Grafana dashboard with the grafana-pcp plugin. Ready-to-import Grafana dashboard JSON and pmie alerting rules are provided. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What does NVMe percentage_used metric mean and when should I replace my drive? The smart.nvme_attributes.percentage_used metric reflects consumed endurance on a scale of 0–100%. A value above 80% indicates significant wear, and above 90% you should start planning a replacement. Unlike a one-time smartctl check, PCP collects this continuously so you can track the rate of increase over months rather than catching it only after problems appear. _Developers managing NVMe storage track wear trends like these on daily.dev before a drive hits the replacement threshold._ ### How do I prevent drive monitoring metrics from breaking when my NVMe device name changes after a reboot? Use PCP's smart.wwid.* metric namespace instead of device-path-based metrics. WWID (World Wide Identifier) is a unique identifier assigned to each drive at manufacturing time and never changes regardless of how the OS names the device. This means /dev/nvme0n1 becoming /dev/nvme1n1 after a reboot or BIOS update does not break your monitoring history. _Teams running multi-drive home lab servers keep up with storage monitoring patterns on daily.dev._ ### How do I set up automated alerts for drive temperature and wear in PCP pmie? Save rules to /etc/pcp/pmie/smart-health.pmie. A temperature alert looks like: some_inst(smart.nvme_attributes.temperature_sensor_one > 70) -> syslog 10 min "NVMe drive temperature critical:" " %i at %v °C"; The time after syslog (e.g. 10 min, 24 hour) throttles repeated alerts. Test rules with sudo pmie -v -c /etc/pcp/pmie/smart-health.pmie -t 10second before enabling them as a persistent service. _Sysadmins automating drive failure prevention find pmie alerting discussions on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Visualize Performance Co-Pilot data with geomaps in Grafana](https://daily.dev/posts/visualize-performance-co-pilot-data-with-geomaps-in-grafana-bstabflgp) · Red Hat Developer · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [SMART Stats for Your SSD and HDD on Linux, macOS and Windows — Nick Janetakis](https://daily.dev/posts/smart-stats-for-your-ssd-and-hdd-on-linux-macos-and-windows-nick-janetakis-gs4xpa1vv) · Nick Janetakis · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Robust Monitoring Of Linux Host with Prometheus & Grafana \(A. 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