Check sensors-battery

Overview

Return battery status information. If no battery is installed or the metrics cannot be determined, ‚OK‘ is returned.

Hints:

  • Run sensors-detect --auto beforehand to scan your system for the various hardware monitoring chips or sensors supported by libsensors or, more generally, by the lm_sensors tool suite.

Fact Sheet

Fact

Value

Check Plugin Download

https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/tree/main/check-plugins/sensors-battery

Check Interval Recommendation

Once a minute

Can be called without parameters

Yes

Compiled for Windows

No

3rd Party Python modules

psutil

Help

usage: sensors-battery [-h] [-V] [--always-ok] [-c CRIT] [-w WARN]

Return battery status information. If no battery is installed or metrics can't
be determined OK is returned.

options:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  -V, --version        show program's version number and exit
  --always-ok          Always returns OK.
  -c, --critical CRIT  Set the critical threshold for battery power left as a
                       percentage. Default: 5
  -w, --warning WARN   Set the warning threshold for battery power left as a
                       percentage. Default: 20

Usage Examples

./sensors-battery --warning 20 --critical 5

Output:

94.13%, 4h 40m left (not plugged in and discharging)

States

  • WARN or CRIT if battery power left as % is below a given threshold.

Perfdata / Metrics

  • battery power as a percentage (%)

  • time left (seconds)

Credits, License