Know your drive health at a glance.
Scrutiny gives you a simple dashboard that shows the health of every hard drive connected to your system. It watches for warning signs like rising temperatures, bad sectors, and other early indicators of failure — so you can replace a dying drive before you lose your data.
What makes Scrutiny worth launching.
See every drive's status at a glance with a clean, color-coded dashboard that highlights healthy, warning, and failing drives.
Watch how key metrics like temperature and reallocated sectors change over time, so you can catch slow degradation early.
Get notified via email, Discord, Telegram, or other services when a drive needs attention — before it fails.
Uses failure data from millions of real drives to set meaningful warning levels, instead of relying on manufacturer defaults that catch problems too late.
Scrutiny automatically finds and monitors all connected hard drives and SSDs — no manual configuration needed.
Track drive temperatures over time and get alerted when a drive runs too hot, helping you spot cooling issues early.
If you fit one of these, Scrutiny is probably built for you.
Practical scenarios where Scrutiny makes a real difference.
Get alerted weeks before a drive fails so you can copy irreplaceable photos and videos to a new drive with zero data loss.
Monitor the drives storing your movie and music collection and replace them at the first sign of trouble, not after they die.
Get a single dashboard showing the health of every drive across your small business network, with alerts when any drive needs attention.
Keep tabs on the external drives you use for backups — so your backup media isn't silently degrading while you trust it.
Scrutiny is a hard drive health dashboard that takes the guesswork out of monitoring your storage. Every modern hard drive has built-in S.M.A.R.T. sensors that track things like temperature, read errors, and wear over time. But making sense of that raw data is tricky. Scrutiny solves that by showing you a clean, color-coded view of every drive's status, with historical charts that let you spot problems before they become emergencies. It even uses real-world failure data (from millions of drives) to set smarter warning thresholds — so you're not chasing false alarms or missing real danger signs. Whether you have one external drive or a rack full of disks, Scrutiny helps you sleep better knowing your data is safe.
Scrutiny is the easiest way to keep tabs on your hard drive health without becoming a storage expert. Instead of digging through raw S.M.A.R.T. data or relying on manufacturer thresholds that catch failures too late, Scrutiny gives you a visual dashboard with smart alerts based on real-world failure patterns from millions of drives. It's perfect for anyone who stores important data locally — from home users with a single backup drive to small businesses running file servers. The open-source community keeps it actively improved, and you get notifications wherever you like: email, Discord, Telegram, or your own custom webhook.
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Your data stays yours
Nothing passes through a third-party cloud.
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What others charge for just the empty server.
Server costs only. Prices checked June 2026.
4 vCPU cores, 8 GB RAM, 150 GB storage
A solid place to start
| Provider | Their price | You save |
|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | $48/mo | $29 (60%) |
| Vultr | $40/mo | $21 (53%) |
| Linode | $48/mo | $29 (60%) |
| AWS Lightsail | $84/mo | $65 (77%) |
| Google Cloud E2 | $103.45/mo | $84.45 (82%) |
8 vCPU cores, 24 GB RAM, 400 GB storage
The sweet spot for most people
| Provider | Their price | You save |
|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | $144/mo | $95 (66%) |
| Vultr | $144/mo | $95 (66%) |
| Linode | $192/mo | $143 (74%) |
| AWS Lightsail | $164/mo | $115 (70%) |
| Google Cloud E2 | $231.17/mo | $182.17 (79%) |
16 vCPU cores, 64 GB RAM, 600 GB storage
For power users
| Provider | Their price | You save |
|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | $384/mo | $285 (74%) |
| Vultr | $320/mo | $221 (69%) |
| Linode | $384/mo | $285 (74%) |
| AWS Lightsail | $384/mo | $285 (74%) |
| Google Cloud E2 | $474.53/mo | $375.53 (79%) |
Prices checked June 2026. Excludes taxes, credits, backups, bandwidth.
Everything you need to know about launching Scrutiny on OpenZapps.
Scrutiny monitors the health of your hard drives and SSDs. It reads the built-in self-diagnostic data (called S.M.A.R.T.) from each drive and shows you a simple dashboard with color-coded health status, temperature, and trends over time.
Not at all. OpenZapps handles everything behind the scenes. Once Scrutiny is running, just open the dashboard in your browser and you'll see all your drives listed with their health status.
You pay OpenZapps a flat monthly fee to run Scrutiny (and any other apps in our catalog). There are no per-drive fees, no surprise charges, and no tiered pricing.
Yes. Scrutiny runs on your own private cloud through OpenZapps. Your drive data stays with you — it's not sent to any third party or analytics service.
Yes! Through OpenZapps, you can connect a custom domain to your Scrutiny dashboard so you can check your drive health from anywhere.
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