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title: "Monitor Your Drive Health with Performance Co-Pilot on Fedora"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/monitor-your-drive-health-with-performance-co-pilot-on-fedora-gievtfzw0
source_url: https://fedoramagazine.org/monitor-your-drive-health-with-performance-co-pilot-on-fedora
type: article
source: "Fedora Magazine"
published: 2026-08-10T08:03:00.924Z
updated: 2026-08-11T08:03:37.846Z
tags: ["grafana", "fedora"]
reading_time: 14
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# 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.

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## 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._

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