Google Compute Engine is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that provides a scalable number of virtual machines (VMs) to serve as large compute clusters.
Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on the Compute Engine instance available under Google Cloud Platform in the Cloud Apps section. Displayed is the Google Compute Engine bulk configuration view distributed into three tabs:
Cloud monitoring software like Applications Manager provide complete visibility into your Google Compute Engine environments altogether in a single window based on the following tabs:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| CPU | |
| CPU Utilization | Activity level from CPU. Expressed as percentage. |
| Total CPUs | Nmber of CPUs in usage |
| CPU Usage | CPU Usage for all cores, in seconds |
| Memory | |
| Memory Utilization | Space currently in use. Expressed as a percentage. |
| Total Memory | Overall memory available |
| Used Memory | Amount of memory used |
| Free Memory | Amount of memory free |
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Input Traffic | Bytes received from the network expressed in KBps. |
| Output Traffic | Bytes sent over the network expressed in KBps. |
| Input Traffic - Packets | Count of packets received from the network |
| Output Traffic - Packets | Count of packets sent over the network |
| Firewall dropped - Bytes | Incoming bytes dropped by firewall expressed in KBps. |
| Firewall dropped - Packets | Count of incoming packets dropped by firewall |
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Disk Utilization | |
| Disk Label | Name of the disk allocated |
| Used | Amount of disk used |
| Free | Amount of disk available |
| Disk Performance | |
| Disk Name | Name of the disk |
| Disk Status | Status of the disk |
| Disk Size | Size of the disk expressed in GB |
| Disk Reads | Bytes read from disk expressed in KB/sec |
| Disk Writes | Bytes written to disk expressed in KB/sec |
| IO Read Operations | Count of disk read IO Operations |
| IO Write Operations | Count of disk write IO Operations |
| Disk Throttling (Not supported from Applications Manager v170800 onwards) | |
| Disk Name | Name of the disk |
| Throttled Disk Reads Per GB | Bytes in throttled read operations expressed in KB/sec (Throttle reason: Per GB limit) |
| Throttled Disk Writer Per GB | Bytes in throttled write operations expressed in KB/sec (Throttle reason: Per GB limit) |
| Throttled IO Read Operations Per GB | Count of throttled disk read operations (Throttle reason: Per GB limit) |
| Throttled IO Write Operations Per GB | Count of throttled disk write operations (Throttle reason: Per GB limit) |
| Throttled Disk Reads Per VM | Bytes in throttled read operations expressed in KB/sec. (Throttle reason: Per VM limit) |
| Throttled Disk Writes Per VM | Bytes in throttled write operations expressed in KB/sec. (Throttle reason: Per VM limit) |
| Throttled IO Read Operations Per VM | Count of throttled read operations (Throttle reason: Per VM limit) |
| Throttled IO Write Operations Per VM | Count of throttled write operations (Throttle reason: Per VM limit) |
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Instance name | Name of the instance |
| Instance ID | Unique ID of the instance |
| Project ID | Unique ID of the project |
| Zone | Zone in which the instance is created |
| Status | Current status of the instance (Running, terminated,...) |
| Machine Type | Virtualized hardware resources available to the instance |
| External IP | IP Address of the instance |
| CPU Platform | Base platform of the instance |
| OS Platform | Operating system running in the instance |
| Start Restricted | Restriction on the instance to perform start operation (True/False) |
| Deletion Protection | Restriction on the instance to perform delete operation (True/False) |
