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.
- Connect to the appliance.
- 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.
- Visit the Metrics explorer page in the Google Cloud console.
- From the Configuration tab, click Select a metric.
- In the filter field, enter
Stored bytes
. - From the results, select Transfer Appliance > Appliance > Stored bytes.
- 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.
- Visit the Metrics explorer page in the Google Cloud console.
- From the Configuration tab, click Select a metric.
- In the filter field, enter
Transfer health
. - From the results, select Transfer Appliance > Appliance > Transfer health.
- 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