How to Install Scrutiny on POP! OS Latest

Scrutiny is a web dashboard for S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, disk usage tracking, and file system health analytics. This tutorial will show you how to install Scrutiny on POP! OS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before installing Scrutiny, make sure your system meets the following requirements:

  • POP! OS Latest
  • Internet connection

Install Required Dependencies

First, let's install the required packages that Scrutiny depends on:

sudo apt-get install nodejs npm smartmontools

Install Scrutiny

  1. Clone the Scrutiny repository from Github:
git clone https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny.git
  1. Change to the Scrutiny directory:
cd scrutiny
  1. Install the required node modules:
sudo npm install
  1. Build Scrutiny:
sudo npm run build
  1. Start Scrutiny:
sudo npm start

Scrutiny will start running on http://localhost:3000/.

Configure Scrutiny

By default, Scrutiny is configured to monitor all connected drives. You can customize the configuration file according to your needs. The default configuration file is located at /etc/scrutiny.conf.

Access Scrutiny

Launch your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000/ to access Scrutiny.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Scrutiny on POP! OS Latest. Now you can use Scrutiny to monitor the health of your disks and file systems.