# smartmontools/smartmontools

2025-06-01: This is now the official upstream repository of smartmontools

Repository: https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/smartmontools
Homepage: https://www.smartmontools.org/browser
Language: C++
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-08-24T17:15:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3260, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 478, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1326, forks 276 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:22.633606+00:00)

## What it is
Smartmontools provides two utilities, smartctl and smartd, for controlling and monitoring storage systems using the SMART technology built into ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS, and NVMe disks. It gives advanced warning of disk degradation and failure across many operating systems.

## Use cases
- check disk health with SMART data
- monitor NVMe drive temperature and wear
- get email alerts when a disk is failing
- run periodic SMART self-tests on drives
- diagnose why a hard drive is making errors
- monitor disk health on a headless server

## When to choose
- you need to monitor disk health on Linux, BSD, macOS, or Windows servers
- you want early warning of drive failure via SMART attributes
- you need a mature, scriptable CLI for ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS, and NVMe devices

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI dashboard for storage health
- you only need filesystem-level monitoring rather than hardware SMART data

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: monitoring, alerting, cli
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems, hardware
- platform: windows, bsd, cross-platform, cli
- tags: smart, disk-health, nvme, storage-monitoring, hardware-diagnostics, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- smartmontools/smartmontools (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:22.633606+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:46:24.249453+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:22.633606+00:00, sha d8f16c8f6ede)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.