How to Install Scrutiny on Windows 11

In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Scrutiny on Windows 11. Scrutiny is an open-source, self-hosted monitoring solution for your hard drives and RAID arrays. It helps you monitor the health and performance of your storage devices, provides statistics on read/write speed, and allows you to set up notifications when issues arise.

Prerequisites

Before getting started, make sure that you have the following:

  • A Windows 11 machine
  • Administrator privileges on your Windows 11 machine
  • Git installed on your machine
  • Docker Desktop installed on your machine

Getting Started

Now that you have installed the prerequisite software, it's time to get started with the installation process.

  1. Open the Command Prompt or PowerShell in Administrator mode.

    To do this, right-click on the Start button and select Windows PowerShell (Admin).

  2. Clone the Scrutiny repository from Github by running the following command:

    git clone https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny.git
    
  3. Move into the Scrutiny directory:

    cd scrutiny
    
  4. Install the required dependencies using Docker by running:

    docker-compose up -d
    
  5. Once the installation process is complete, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8088.

    You should now see the Scrutiny web interface.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Scrutiny on Windows 11!

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we guided you through the process of installing Scrutiny on Windows 11 using Git and Docker. Scrutiny is an essential tool for monitoring the health and performance of your storage devices, and we hope that this tutorial has helped you get started with using it.