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EVS Monitoring Data Included in OS Metrics (with Agent Installed)

Description

This section describes the EVS-related metrics included in the OS metrics supported by ECS. The agent of the latest version is used with simplified monitoring metrics.

After installing the agent on an ECS, you can view its EVS-related metrics included in the OS monitoring metrics.

Prerequisites

You have installed the Agent.

For instructions about how to install and configure the Agent, see Installing and Configuring the Agent.

Namespace

AGT.ECS

Monitoring Metrics

Table 1 Disk metrics

Metric

Parameter

Description

Value Range

Unit

Conversion Rule

Dimension

Monitoring Period (Raw Data)

disk_free

(Agent) Available Disk Space

Free space on the disks

  • Linux: Run the df -h command to check the value in the Avail column. The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).
  • Windows: Use the WMI interface to call GetDiskFreeSpaceExW API to obtain disk space data. The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

≥ 0

GB

N/A

instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_total

(Agent) Disk Storage Capacity

Total space on the disks, including used and free

  • Linux: Run the df -h command to check the value in the Size column.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows: Use the WMI interface to call GetDiskFreeSpaceExW API to obtain disk space data. The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

≥ 0

GB

N/A

instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_used

(Agent) Used Disk Space

Used space on the disks

  • Linux: Run the df -h command to check the value in the Used column. The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).
  • Windows: Use the WMI interface to call GetDiskFreeSpaceExW API to obtain disk space data. The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

≥ 0

GB

N/A

instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_usedPercent

(Agent) Disk Usage

Percentage of total disk space that is used, which is calculated as follows: Disk Usage = Used Disk Space/Disk Storage Capacity

  • Linux: It is calculated as follows: Used/Size. The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).
  • Windows: Use the WMI interface to call GetDiskFreeSpaceExW API to obtain disk space data. The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

0-100

%

N/A

instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

Table 2 Disk I/O metrics

Metric

Parameter

Description

Value Range

Unit

Conversion Rule

Dimension

Monitoring Period (Raw Data)

disk_agt_read_bytes_rate

(Agent) Disks Read Rate

Number of bytes read from the monitored disk per second

  • Linux:

    The disk read rate is calculated based on the data changes in the sixth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows:
    • The disk I/O data is obtained through the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI. The object is obtained once in each collection period. The instantaneous value returned by the object indicates the metric value in a collection period.
    • The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).
    • When the CPU usage is high, monitoring data obtaining timeout may occur and result in the failure of obtaining monitoring data.

≥ 0

byte/s

1024(IEC)

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_agt_read_requests_rate

(Agent) Disks Read Requests

Number of read requests sent to the monitored disk per second

  • Linux:

    The disk read requests are calculated based on the data changes in the fourth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows:
    • The disk I/O data is obtained through the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI. The object is obtained once in each collection period. The instantaneous value returned by the object indicates the metric value in a collection period.
    • The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).
    • When the CPU usage is high, monitoring data obtaining timeout may occur and result in the failure of obtaining monitoring data.

≥ 0

Request/s

N/A

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_agt_write_bytes_rate

(Agent) Disks Write Rate

Number of bytes written to the monitored disk per second

  • Linux:

    The disk write rate is calculated based on the data changes in the tenth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows:
    • The disk I/O data is obtained through the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI. The object is obtained once in each collection period. The instantaneous value returned by the object indicates the metric value in a collection period.
    • The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).
    • When the CPU usage is high, monitoring data obtaining timeout may occur and result in the failure of obtaining monitoring data.

≥ 0

byte/s

1024(IEC)

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_agt_write_requests_rate

(Agent) Disks Write Requests

Number of write requests sent to the monitored disk per second

  • Linux:

    The disk write requests are calculated based on the data changes in the eighth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows:
    • The disk I/O data is obtained through the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI. The object is obtained once in each collection period. The instantaneous value returned by the object indicates the metric value in a collection period.
    • The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).
    • When the CPU usage is high, monitoring data obtaining timeout may occur and result in the failure of obtaining monitoring data.

≥ 0

Request/s

N/A

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_readTime

(Agent) Average Read Request Time

Average amount of time that read requests have waited on the disks

  • Linux:

    The average read request time is calculated based on the data changes in the seventh column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows is not supported currently.

≥ 0

ms/Count

N/A

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_writeTime

(Agent) Average Write Request Time

Average amount of time that write requests have waited on the disks

  • Linux:

    The average write request time is calculated based on the data changes in the eleventh column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows is not supported currently.

≥ 0

ms/Count

N/A

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_ioUtils

(Agent) Disk I/O Usage

Percentage of the time that the disk has had I/O requests queued to the total disk operation time

  • Linux:

    The disk I/O usage is calculated based on the data changes in the thirteenth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows is not supported currently.

0-100

%

N/A

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_queue_length

(Agent) Disk Queue Length

A reflection of the disk usage in a specified period. It can be used to evaluate the disk I/O performance. A larger value indicates a busier disk and poorer I/O performance.

  • Linux:

    The metric value is calculated by dividing the data changes in the fourteenth column of the corresponding device in /proc/diskstats in a collection period by the metric collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows is not supported currently.

≥ 0

Count

N/A

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_write_bytes_per_operation

(Agent) Average Disk Write Size

Average number of bytes in an I/O write for the monitored disk in the monitoring period

  • Linux:

    The average disk write size is calculated based on the data changes in the tenth column of the corresponding device to divide that of the eighth column in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows is not supported currently.

≥ 0

Byte/op

N/A

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_read_bytes_per_operation

(Agent) Average Disk Read Size

Average number of bytes in an I/O read for the monitored disk in the monitoring period

  • Linux:

    The average disk read size is calculated based on the data changes in the sixth column of the corresponding device to divide that of the fourth column in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows is not supported currently.

≥ 0

Byte/op

N/A

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_io_svctm

(Agent) Disk I/O Service Time

Average time in an I/O read or write for the monitored disk in the monitoring period

  • Linux:

    The average disk I/O service time is calculated based on the data changes in the thirteenth column of the corresponding device to divide the sum of data changes in the fourth and eighth columns in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

    The path of the mount point prefix cannot exceed 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and tildes (~).

  • Windows is not supported currently.

≥ 0

ms/op

N/A

  • instance_id,disk
  • instance_id,mount_point

1 minute

disk_device_used_percent

Block Device Usage

Percentage of the used physical disk of the monitored object. Calculation formula: Used storage space of all mounted disk partitions/Total disk storage space

  • Collection method for Linux ECSs: Obtain the disk usage of each mount point, calculate the total disk storage space based on the disk sector size and the number of sectors, and then you can calculate the overall disk usage.
  • Windows is not supported currently.

0-100

%

N/A

instance_id,disk

1 minute

Dimension

Key

Value

Server

instance_id

Server ID

You can obtain the value by referring to Querying the Original Dimension Values in Server Monitoring.

Server - Disk

disk

Server disk

You can obtain the value by referring to Querying the Original Dimension Values in Server Monitoring.