GCP VM Disk space alert

Question

How can I configure GCPs monitoring suite to look at % disk utilization (in total space used, not IOPs)?

The only "disk used" metric I see in metrics explorer seems to chart some kind of units per second.

My end goal is to set alerts when a disk reaches past a certain threshold, say 85%, before filling up.

Wojtek_B · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-22T07:37:21.513

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Go to GCP console > Monitoring > alerting policy. Click on "+ Create Policy" button on the top and "Add Condition" 0 you will see a panel that looks something like this below.

Set everything as fallows:

Target:

Resource type: GCE VM Instance
Metric: Disk Utilization

Filters:

name: name of your disk (a list of all your disks will pop up - select one)
device: name of the partition (the one you want to monitor)
state: free

Configuration:

Condition: below
Threshold: 15% (or any other value)
for: (most recent value to get alert immediately)

edited Apr 22 '20 at 07:37

answered Apr 16 '20 at 19:38

Wojtek_B

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Perfect. I also had to install the monitoring agent on one, even though it was a GCP provided image. – atxdba Apr 21 '20 at 18:06
Now, everything has changed. – user1700890 May 05 '23 at 00:03

GCP VM Disk space alert

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