docs, added an explanation for why influxdb is required.

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Jason Kulatunga 2 years ago
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# InfluxDB Troubleshooting
## Why??
Scrutiny has many features, but the relevant one to this conversation is the "S.M.A.R.T metric tracking for historical
trends". Basically Scrutiny not only shows you the current SMART values, but how they've changed over weeks, months (or
even years).
To efficiently handle that data at scale (and to make my life easier as a developer) I decided to add InfluxDB as a
dependency. It's a dedicated timeseries database, as opposed to the general purpose sqlite DB I used before. I also did
a bunch of testing and analysis before I made the change. With InfluxDB the memory footprint for Scrutiny (at idle) is ~
100mb, which is still fairly reasonable.
## Installation
InfluxDB is a required dependency for Scrutiny v0.4.0+.
https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.2/install/

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