GCP VM Level Monitoring metrics
GCP VM Level Monitoring metrics

Active Metric Categories

Firewall Metrics - Remember that FW rules are applied at the instance level in GCP. So Ingress Bytes and Egress Bytes are part of these instance level - firewall metrics

Instance Metrics - CPU Usage, CPU Utilization, Disk Average Latency, Disk Read, Disk Write, Uptime, Uptime Total, VM Memory Total

Log Based Metrics - Log Bytes (byte count) and Log Entries (Count of Entries)

Alert ( Policy) Conditions

  • Metric Threshold: It triggers if the metric's value is sustained above or below the threshold for a given time
  • Metric Absence: It triggers if the metric is absent for the given period
  • Metric Rate of Change: True when the metric increases or decreases greater than the given rate over a given period
  • Uptime Check Health: It triggers when two or more user-defined uptime checks fail
  • Process Health: It triggers if the number of matching processes on a VM running the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent falls above or below the threshold for a given time

Notification Channels

Email, SMS, webhooks and the Cloud Console mobile app.