Question

Your team runs a fleet of Compute Engine VMs and needs Cloud Monitoring dashboards to show detailed guest-level metrics such as disk I/O and process-level CPU usage. Currently the dashboards only display default hypervisor-level metrics like network traffic and disk throughput reported by the VM instance. What should you do to collect the additional guest-level metrics?

Accepted Answer

Install and configure the Ops Agent on each VM instance.

Answer

Enable Cloud Monitoring at the project level in the Cloud Console.

Answer

Create a log-based metric that extracts disk I/O values from the system logs.

Answer

Grant the Monitoring Viewer role to the VM service account.