Monitor Edge Appliance

Monitor online transfer status

You can monitor the progress of online transfers from Edge Appliance to Cloud Storage in the Transfer Appliance page of the Google Cloud console.

Go to Transfer Appliance | Monitor

Enable Cloud Monitoring

Edge Appliance uses Cloud Monitoring to report on disk space and online mode health.

  1. Connect to the appliance.
  2. From the appliance command line, run ta metrics start.

Monitor disk space

You can monitor the amount of data currently residing on the appliance using Cloud Monitoring.

  1. Visit the Metrics explorer page in the Google Cloud console.
  2. From the Configuration tab, click Select a metric.
  3. In the filter field, enter Stored bytes.
  4. From the results, select Transfer Appliance > Appliance > Stored bytes.
  5. Click Apply.

To learn about using Cloud Monitoring to view your Edge Appliance metrics, read Create charts with Metrics Explorer.

Monitor online mode

You can monitor the status of online mode using Cloud Monitoring.

  1. Visit the Metrics explorer page in the Google Cloud console.
  2. From the Configuration tab, click Select a metric.
  3. In the filter field, enter Transfer health.
  4. From the results, select Transfer Appliance > Appliance > Transfer health.
  5. Click Apply.

To learn about using Cloud Monitoring to view your Edge Appliance metrics, read Create charts with Metrics Explorer.

Disable Cloud Monitoring on the appliance

To stop reporting metrics from the appliance to Cloud Monitoring, run the following command from the Edge Appliance command line:

ta metrics stop

Cloud Monitoring is also stopped when you run any of the following commands:

  • ta finalize
  • ta reset