Monitor Hyperdisk Storage Pools
Monitoring storage pool utilization rates is essential to maintaining your
pooled disk resources. Compute Engine offers a high-level view of your
storage pool metrics using the Monitoring tab in the
Trusted Cloud console. This tab provides a predefined dashboard using
metric data
so you can monitor your storage pools and make informed decisions about
your storage pool provisioned resources.
The Monitoring page shows the following graphs for disk capacity, IOPS, and
throughput by default:
- Provisioned capacity, Provisioned IOPS, or Provisioned Throughput: the total
amount provisioned for the storage pool.
- Used capacity, IOPS, or throughput: Amount used by disks in the storage pool.
- Capacity Utilization, IOPS utilization, or Throughput utilization (%): the
percentage of the total used amount over the total provisioned amount.
- Total disk provisioned capacity, Total disk provisioned IOPS, and Total disk
provisioned throughput: The total provisioned capacity, IOPS, or
throughput of all disks in the storage pool.
- Capacity over-provisioning, IOPS overprovisioning, or Throughput
overprovisioning (%): the percentage of the total disk provisioned amount
over the provisioned amount.
You can also customize the predefined dashboard to view only the specific
metrics that you want.
Before you begin
Access the storage pool monitoring page
You can view the monitoring page in the Trusted Cloud console.
In the Trusted Cloud console, go to the Storage pools page.
Go to Storage pools
Click the name of a storage pool to open the Details page.
Click the Monitoring tab to display the monitoring dashboard for the
storage pool.
Optional: Reset the one hour default timeframe to the timeframe you want
to monitor, by choosing one of the following options:
- 6 hours
- 1 day
- 1 week
- 1 month
- 6 weeks
- Custom date or time range
Customize the storage pool dashboard
Use the following instructions to modify the graphs shown on the
storage pool dashboard.
- Access the storage pool Monitoring page.
To change a default graph, click
query_stats Explore data.
This opens an Explore page, where you can create a customized monitoring
chart or table. For information about how to create a chart for
a specific metric, see
Chart a single metric type.
After creating a custom graph or table, you can save the result to a new or
existing custom dashboard.
For more information about custom dashboards, see
View and customize Trusted Cloud by S3NS dashboards.
Alternatively, you can click
more_vertMore chart options, and
then Add to custom dashboard to add the storage pool monitoring
charts to a custom dashboard. You can then further customize your dashboard
using the instructions in View and customize Trusted Cloud dashboards.
Configure alerts for metrics
Use the following instructions to create an alert for the metric data shown on
the storage pool dashboard.
- Access the storage pool Monitoring page.
- Click Create alerting policy.
The Create alerting policy page appears. Configure the parameters for
the alerting policy. For information about how to configure an alerting
policy, see
Create alerting policy.
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Last updated 2025-08-26 UTC.
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[Set a default region and zone](/compute/docs/gcloud-compute#set_default_zone_and_region_in_your_local_client).\n\n REST\n\n\n To use the REST API samples on this page in a local development environment, you use the\n credentials you provide to the gcloud CLI.\n 1. [Install](/sdk/docs/install) the Google Cloud CLI. After installation, [initialize](/sdk/docs/initializing) the Google Cloud CLI by running the following command: \n\n ```bash\n gcloud init\n ```\n 2. If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first [sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity](/iam/docs/workforce-log-in-gcloud).\n\n\n For more information, see\n [Authenticate for using REST](/docs/authentication/rest)\n in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.\n\nAccess the storage pool monitoring page\n\nYou can view the monitoring page in the Google Cloud console.\n\n1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the **Storage pools** page.\n\n [Go to Storage pools](https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/storagePools)\n2. Click the name of a storage pool to open the **Details** page.\n\n3. Click the **Monitoring** tab to display the monitoring dashboard for the\n storage pool.\n\n4. Optional: Reset the one hour default timeframe to the timeframe you want\n to monitor, by choosing one of the following options:\n\n - 6 hours\n - 1 day\n - 1 week\n - 1 month\n - 6 weeks\n - Custom date or time range\n\nCustomize the storage pool dashboard\n\nUse the following instructions to modify the graphs shown on the\nstorage pool dashboard.\n\n1. [Access the storage pool **Monitoring** page](#access).\n2. To change a default graph, click\n query_stats **Explore data**.\n\n This opens an **Explore** page, where you can create a customized monitoring\n chart or table. For information about how to create a chart for\n a specific metric, see\n [Chart a single metric type](/monitoring/charts/metrics-explorer#find-me).\n3. After creating a custom graph or table, you can save the result to a new or\n existing custom dashboard.\n\n For more information about custom dashboards, see\n [View and customize Google Cloud dashboards](/monitoring/charts/predefined-dashboards).\n4. Alternatively, you can click\n more_vert**More chart options** , and\n then **Add to custom dashboard** to add the storage pool monitoring\n charts to a custom dashboard. You can then further customize your dashboard\n using the instructions in [View and customize Google Cloud dashboards](/monitoring/charts/predefined-dashboards).\n\nConfigure alerts for metrics\n\nUse the following instructions to create an alert for the metric data shown on\nthe storage pool dashboard.\n\n1. [Access the storage pool **Monitoring** page](#access).\n2. Click **Create alerting policy** . The **Create alerting policy** page appears. Configure the parameters for the alerting policy. For information about how to configure an alerting policy, see [Create alerting policy](/monitoring/alerts/using-alerting-ui#create-policy)."]]
