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Disk usage metrics

Monitor your disk usage carefully to avoid a common cause of system failure.

disk

Metrics to monitor disk usage. See the InfluxDB Telegraf plugin documentation for more.

Tags: device, fstype (file system type), mode, node_id, path

  • free: Total amount of free disk space available on the storage device, measured in bytes
  • inodes_free: The number of free inodes, which corresponds to the number of free file descriptors available on the file system.
  • inodes_total: The total number of inodes or file descriptors that the file system supports.
  • inodes_used: The number of inodes or file descriptors currently being used on the file system.
  • total: Total capacity of the disk or storage device, measured in bytes.
  • used: The amount of disk space currently in use, calculated in bytes.
  • used_percent: The percentage of the disk space that is currently being used in relation to the total capacity.

diskio

Metrics to monitor disk traffic and timing. Consult the InfluxDB Telegraf plugin documentation for the definition of each metric.

Tags: name, node_id, wwid

  • io_time
  • iops_in_progress
  • merged_reads
  • merged_writes
  • read_bytes
  • read_time
  • reads
  • weighted_io_time
  • write_bytes
  • write_time
  • writes