# File system monitoring

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/file-system-monitoring/38070>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 7, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/file-system-monitoring/38070 "2023-06-07T08:07:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ebrahim\_Kutty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c0e974/32.png) [@Ebrahim\_Kutty](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ebrahim_Kutty)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/file-system-monitoring/38070/1 "2023-06-07T08:07:16Z")

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Hi,

I want to configure to check the file system free space available everyday and send mail if it is more than 80% . I tried with the below YAML code, but didn’t work.

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**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/file-system-monitoring/38070/2 "2023-06-07T09:17:39Z")

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> Hi,
> 
> I want to configure to check the file system free space available everyday and send mail if it is more than 80% . I tried with the below YAML code, but didn’t work.

“Didn’t work” is very little information.  
But, even with the right amount of information I think it would be best to not (ab)use ansible for this task and instead use a dedicated monitoring system