Monitoring key metrics for cloud volumes is integrated within Cloud Monitoring. The lag time for some metrics can be up to 20 minutes.
You can create a dashboard view in Cloud Monitoring, add charts by selecting
the NetApp Cloud Volumes resource type, and choose the following available
metrics. For the metrics you choose, add netapp.com/cloudvolume/
to the API
metric name. That prefix, though required, does not appear in the following
table.
Metric | API metric name | Description |
---|---|---|
Bytes read | read_bytes_count |
I/O bytes from read operations by the user. |
Bytes written | write_bytes_count |
I/O bytes from write operations by the user. |
Operations count | operation_count |
Measure of operations count per second. |
Volume IO operation latency. |
request_latencies |
Measure of the volume’s responsiveness for I/O operation requests in milliseconds. This is latency at the storage level. It doesn't include network latency to the client. |
Volume space allocation | volume_size |
Measure of the provisioned size of the volume in bytes. |
Volume space usage |
volume_usage |
Measure of the actual space utilized by the volume in bytes. |
Inodes allocation | inode_allocation |
Number of file and directory inodes allocated for the volume. |
What's next
- Creating and managing volume snapshots
- Reverting a volume using a snapshot
- Backing up and restoring a cloud volume
- Security considerations
- FAQs about NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud
- Try out other Google Cloud features for yourself. Have a look at our tutorials.