Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Monitoring RAM usage of a VM on GCP

CPU usage is shown by default on the monitoring console, but in order to see how much RAM is used by a VM on Google Cloud Platform, one has to first install the agent, then in the Monitoring dashboard, open Metrics explorer, choose the GCE VM Instance Resource Type and choose the agent called Memory Usage (agent.googlapis.com/memory/bytes_used). This last part is a bit non-intuitive, because there are many entries labelled Memory Usage, and we have to scroll down till agent.googlapis.com/memory/bytes_used. The resulting chart can be saved to an existing dashboard or we can create a new dashboard.

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