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ECS Metrics Under OS Monitoring (Agent Installed)

Prerequisites

The Agent has been installed and is running properly.

Function

This topic describes OS metrics reported by the ECS plug-in to Cloud Eye as well as their namespaces and dimensions. You can use APIs provided by Cloud Eye to query the metrics and alarms generated by the ECS plug-in.

Namespace

AGT.ECS

Metrics

Metric

Name

Description

Collection Mode (Linux)

Collection Mode (Windows)

cpu_usage_idle

(Agent) Idle CPU Usage

Percentage of time that CPU is idle

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/stat in a collection period.

Run the top command to check the %Cpu(s) id value.

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by invoking WindowsAPI GetSystemTimes.

cpu_usage_other

(Agent) Other Process CPU Usage

Percentage of time that the CPU is used by other processes

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Other Process CPU Usage = 1- Idle CPU Usage - Kernel Space CPU Usage - User Space CPU Usage

Monitored object: ECS

Other Process CPU Usage = 1- Idle CPU Usage - Kernel Space CPU Usage - User Space CPU Usage

cpu_usage_system

(Agent) Kernel Space CPU Usage

Percentage of time that the CPU is used by kernel space

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/stat in a collection period.

Run the top command to check the %Cpu(s) sy value.

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by invoking WindowsAPI GetSystemTimes.

cpu_usage_user

(Agent) User Space CPU Usage

Percentage of time that the CPU is used by user space

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/stat in a collection period.

Run the top command to check the %Cpu(s) us value.

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by invoking WindowsAPI GetSystemTimes.

cpu_usage

(Agent) CPU Usage

CPU usage of the monitored object

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/stat in a collection period.

Run the top command to check the %Cpu(s) value.

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by invoking WindowsAPI GetSystemTimes.

cpu_usage_nice

(Agent) Nice Process CPU Usage

Percentage of time during which the CPU runs in user mode with low-priority processes that can easily be interrupted by higher-priority processes

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/stat in a collection period.

Run the top command to check the %Cpu(s) ni value.

Not supported

cpu_usage_iowait

(Agent) iowait Process CPU Usage

Percentage of time during which the CPU is waiting for I/O operations to complete

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/stat in a collection period.

Run the top command to check the %Cpu(s) wa value.

Not supported

cpu_usage_irq

(Agent) CPU Interrupt Time

Percentage of time that the CPU is servicing interrupts

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/stat in a collection period.

Run the top command to check the %Cpu(s) hi value.

Not supported

cpu_usage_softirq

(Agent) CPU Software Interrupt Time

Percentage of time that the CPU is servicing software interrupts

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/stat in a collection period.

Run the top command to check the %Cpu(s) si value.

Not supported

load_average1

(Agent) 1-Minute Load Average

CPU load averaged from the last 1 minute

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by using the load1/ value to divide the number of logical CPUs.

Run the top command to check the load1 value in the /proc/loadavg file.

Not supported

load_average5

(Agent) 5-Minute Load Average

CPU load averaged from the last 5 minutes

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by using the load5/ value to divide the number of logical CPUs.

Run the top command to check the load5 value in the /proc/loadavg file.

Not supported

load_average15

(Agent) 15-Minute Load Average

CPU load averaged from the last 15 minutes

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by using the load15/ value to divide the number of logical CPUs.

Run the top command to check the load15 value in the /proc/loadavg file.

Not supported

mem_available

(Agent) Available Memory

Available memory size of the monitored object

Unit: GB

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain the MemAvailable value by checking file /proc/meminfo. If it is not displayed in the file,

MemAvailable = MemFree + Buffers+Cached

Monitored object: ECS

Available Memory = Total memory - Used memory. Obtain its value by invoking WindowsAPI GlobalMemoryStatusEx.

mem_usedPercent

(Agent) Memory Usage

Memory usage of the monitored object

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check file /proc/meminfo. AGT. Memory Usage = (MemTotal-MemAvailable)/MemTotal

Monitored object: ECS

Memory Usage = Used memory/Total memory *100%

mem_free

(Agent) Idle Memory

Amount of memory that is not being used

Unit: GB

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by checking file /proc/meminfo.

Not supported

mem_buffers

(Agent) Buffer

Memory that is being used for buffers

Unit: GB

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by checking file /proc/meminfo.

Run the top command to check the KiB Mem:buffers value.

Not supported

mem_cached

(Agent) Cache

Memory that is being used for file caches

Unit: GB

Monitored object: ECS

Obtain its value by checking file /proc/meminfo.

Run the top command to check the KiB Swap:cached Mem value.

Not supported

mountPointPrefix_disk_free

(Agent) Available Disk Space

Available disk space of the monitored object

Unit: GB

Monitored object: ECS

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Run the df -h command to check data in the Avail column.

Monitored object: ECS

Use the WMI interface to invoke GetDiskFreeSpaceExW to obtain disk space data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

mountPointPrefix_disk_total

(Agent) Disk Storage Capacity

Disk storage capacity of the monitored object

Unit: GB

Monitored object: ECS

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Run the df -h command to check data in the Size column.

Monitored object: ECS

Use the WMI interface to invoke GetDiskFreeSpaceExW to obtain disk space data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

mountPointPrefix_disk_used

(Agent) Used Disk Space

Used disk space of the monitored object

Unit: GB

Monitored object: ECS

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Run the df -h command to check data in the Used column.

Monitored object: ECS

Use the WMI interface to invoke GetDiskFreeSpaceExW to obtain disk space data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

mountPointPrefix_disk_usedPercent

(Agent) Disk I/O Usage

Disk usage of the monitored object

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

AGT. Disk Usage = AGT. Used Disk Space/AGT. Disk Storage Capacity

Monitored object: ECS

Use the WMI interface to invoke GetDiskFreeSpaceExW to obtain disk space data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

disk_queue_length

(Agent) Disk Queue Length

Average number of read or write requests queued up for completion for the monitored disk in the monitoring period

Unit: Count

Monitored object: ECS

The average disk queue length is calculated by calculating the data changes in the fourteenth 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 swung dashes (~).

Not supported

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

Unit: KB/op

Monitored object: ECS

The average disk write size is calculated by using 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 swung dashes (~).

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

Unit: KB/op

Monitored object: ECS

The average disk read size is calculated by using 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 swung dashes (~).

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

Unit: ms/op

Monitored object: ECS

The average disk I/O service time is calculated by using 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 swung dashes (~).

disk_inodesTotal

(Agent) Disk inode Total

Total number of index nodes on the disk

Monitored object: ECS

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Run the df -i command to check data in the Inodes column.

Not supported

disk_inodesUsed

(Agent) Total inode Used

Number of used index nodes on the disk

Monitored object: ECS

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Run the df -i command to check data in the IUsed column.

Not supported

mountPointPrefix_disk_inodesUsedPercent

(Agent) Percentage of Total inode Used

Ratio of used index nodes to the total index nodes on the disk

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Run the df -i command to check data in the IUse% column.

Not supported

mountPointPrefix_disk_agt_read_bytes_rate

(Agent) Disks Read Rate

Number of bytes read from the monitored object per second

Unit: byte/s

Monitored object: ECS

The disks read rate is calculated by calculating the data changes in the sixth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Monitored object: ECS

Use the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI to obtain the disk I/O data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

mountPointPrefix_disk_agt_read_requests_rate

(Agent) Disks Read Requests

Number of read requests sent to the monitored object per second

Unit: Request/s

Monitored object: ECS

The disks read requests are calculated by calculating the data changes in the fourth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Monitored object: ECS

Use the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI to obtain the disk I/O data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

mountPointPrefix_disk_agt_write_bytes_rate

(Agent) Disks Write Rate

Number of bytes written to the monitored disk per second

Unit: byte/s

Monitored object: ECS

The disks write rate is calculated by calculating the data changes in the tenth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Monitored object: ECS

Use the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI to obtain the disk I/O data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

mountPointPrefix_disk_agt_write_requests_rate

(Agent) Disks Write Requests

Number of write requests sent to the monitored disk per second

Unit: Request/s

Monitored object: ECS

The disks write requests are calculated by calculating the data changes in the eighth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

Monitored object: ECS

Use the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI to obtain the disk I/O data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

disk_readTime

(Agent) Average Read Request Time

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

Unit: ms/count

Monitored object: ECS

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

Monitored object: ECS

Use the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI to obtain the disk I/O data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

disk_writeTime

(Agent) Average Write Request Time

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

Unit: ms/count

Monitored object: ECS

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

Monitored object: ECS

Use the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI to obtain the disk I/O data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

mountPointPrefix_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

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

The disk I/O usage is obtained by calculating the data changes in the thirteenth column of the corresponding device in file /proc/diskstats in a collection period.

Monitored object: ECS

Use the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk object in WMI to obtain the disk I/O data.

mountPointPrefix is the prefix of the mount point. / in the path is replaced by the word SlAsH. The new path can contain a maximum of 64 characters. It must start with a letter, and contain only digits, letters, hyphens (-), periods (.), and swung dashes (~).

disk_fs_rwstate

(Agent) File System Read/Write Status

Read and write status of the mounted file system of the monitored object Possible statuses are 0 (read and write) and 1 (read only).

Monitored object: ECS

Check file system information in the fourth column in file /proc/mounts.

Not supported

net_bitSent

(Agent) Inbound Bandwidth

Number of bits sent by this NIC per second

Unit: bit/s

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/net/dev in a collection period.

Monitored object: ECS

Use the MibIfRow object in WMI to obtain the network metric data.

net_bitRecv

(Agent) Outbound Bandwidth

Number of bits received by this NIC per second

Unit: bit/s

net_packetRecv

(Agent) NIC Packet Receive Rate

Number of packets received by this NIC per second

Unit: Count/s

net_packetSent

(Agent) NIC Packet Send Rate

Number of packets sent by this NIC per second

Unit: Count/s

net_tcp_total

(Agent) TCP TOTAL

Total number of TCP connections of the target NIC

net_tcp_established

(Agent) TCP ESTABLISHED

Number of ESTABLISHED TCP connections of the target NIC

net_errin

(Agent) Receive Error Rate

Percentage of receive errors detected by this NIC per second

Unit: Percent

Monitored object: ECS

Check the metric value changes in file /proc/net/dev in a collection period.

Not supported

net_errout

(Agent) Transmit Error Rate

Percentage of transmit errors detected by this NIC per second

Unit: Percent

net_dropin

(Agent) Received Packet Drop Rate

Percentage of packets discarded by this NIC to the total number of packets received by the NIC per second

Unit: Percent

net_dropout

(Agent) Transmitted Packet Drop Rate

Percentage of packets transmitted by this NIC which were dropped per second

Unit: Percent

Dimension

Key

Value

instance_id

ECS ID