diff --git a/includes/functions.php b/includes/functions.php
index e399a10ae5..c49857bca0 100644
--- a/includes/functions.php
+++ b/includes/functions.php
@@ -1366,3 +1366,65 @@ function dnslookup($device,$type=false,$return=false) {
     $record = dns_get_record($device['hostname'],$type);
     return $record[0][$return];
 }//end dnslookup
+
+
+/**
+ * Reursive Filter Iterator to iterate directories and locate .rrd files.
+ *
+**/
+
+class RRDReursiveFilterIterator extends \RecursiveFilterIterator {
+    public function accept() {
+        $filename = $this->current()->getFilename();
+        if ($filename[0] === '.') {
+            // Ignore hidden files and directories
+            return false;
+        }
+        if ($this->isDir()) {
+            // We want to search into directories
+            return true;
+        }
+        // Matches files with .rrd in the filename.
+        // We are only searching rrd folder, but there could be other files and we don't want to cause a stink.
+        return strpos($filename, '.rrd') !== false;
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Run rrdtool info on a file path
+ *
+ * @param string $path Path to pass to rrdtool info
+ * @param string $stdOutput Variable to recieve the output of STDOUT
+ * @param string $stdError Variable to recieve the output of STDERR
+ *
+ * @return int exit code
+ *
+**/
+
+function rrdtest($path, &$stdOutput, &$stdError) {
+    //rrdtool info <escaped rrd path>
+    $command = $config['rrdtool'].' info '.escapeshellarg($path);
+    $process = proc_open(
+        $command,
+        array (
+            0 => array('pipe', 'r'),
+            1 => array('pipe', 'w'),
+            2 => array('pipe', 'w'),
+        ),
+        $pipes
+    );
+
+    if (!is_resource($process)) {
+        throw new \RuntimeException('Could not create a valid process');
+    }
+
+    $status = proc_get_status($process);
+    while($status['running']) {
+        $status = proc_get_status($process);
+    }
+
+    $stdOutput = stream_get_contents($pipes[1]);
+    $stdError  = stream_get_contents($pipes[2]);
+    proc_close($process);
+    return $status['exitcode'];
+}
diff --git a/validate.php b/validate.php
index 13db33efd6..8d64262f7f 100755
--- a/validate.php
+++ b/validate.php
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ if (isset($options['h'])) {
         -m Any sub modules you want to run, comma separated:
           - mail: this will test your email settings  (uses default_mail option even if default_only is not set).
           - dist-poller: this will test for the install running as a distributed poller.
+          - rrdcheck: this will check to see if your rrd files are corrupt
 
         Example: ./validate.php -m mail.
 
@@ -267,6 +268,40 @@ foreach ($modules as $module) {
                 }
             }
         }
+        break;
+    case 'rrdcheck':
+
+        $directory = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($config['rrd_dir']);
+        $filter = new RRDReursiveFilterIterator($directory);
+        $iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($filter);
+        $total = iterator_count($iterator);
+        $iterator->rewind();
+
+        echo 'Scanning '.$total.' rrd files...'.PHP_EOL;
+
+        $count = 0;
+        $screenpad = 0;
+
+        foreach ($iterator as $filename => $file) {
+
+                $testResult = rrdtest($filename, $output, $error);
+
+                $count++;
+                if (($count % 100) == 0 ) {
+                        echo "\033[".$screenpad.'D';
+                        $echo = 'Status: '.$count.'/'.$total;
+                        echo $echo;
+                        $screenpad = strlen($echo);
+                }
+
+                if ($testResult > 0)  {
+                        echo "\033[".$screenpad.'D';
+                        echo PHP_EOL.'Error parsing "'.$filename.'" '.$error.PHP_EOL;
+                        $screenpad = 0;
+                }
+
+        }
+
         break;
     }//end switch
 }//end foreach