Matt Joyce

I am a very new unraid user, and have cobbled together a system from older part of previous systems. Specifically an MSI B450 Tomahawk MB with 32gb, Ryzen 5 2600x. I really wanted to make this a quiet system, so wanted to keep the fan speed very low, or stopped, if possible. To track drive temps, cpu and system chip temp, I started just logging to a text file. I remembered about RRDTool from my system admin days, and had used it many yers ago in weather station I made. It's really is fantastic tool, and one thing led to another, and I ended up building out a Docker which can reasonably track any numeric data source, and produce graphs. I put the graphs in a share on the NAS and also present them via a simple web server from the Docker. I have attached an example of the graphs it produces, which show the disk temp with quite a lot of variation, as I was stopping the array fan completely, in the end I just left the lower speed to just above stopped, and the temps really flatten out. As it's a 140mm fan, still very quiet at ~600rpm. As this system can track anything numeric, I might extend to disk io, space, erros, etc Anyway, I'm quite happy with my solution, it was fun to make, and a learn a bit about unraid on the way. If anyone is curious, you can find the project on my github, and if there any significant interested I would look into making a bit more polished and a proper Community App docker. https://github.com/mattjoyce/unraid-rrdtool