Cloud Workstations resource monitoring

This page describes how to monitor resources such as CPU, disk, and network used by Cloud Workstations.

Overview

Cloud Workstations uses Container-Optimized OS to back virtual machines (VMs), which are integrated with Cloud Monitoring by default. The VMs backing workstations are also labeled to make them identifiable in Cloud Monitoring.

To view the metrics for the VMs backing your workstations:

1. Ensure that you have the Metrics Viewer IAM role (roles/roles/monitoring.viewer).

2. Go to Cloud Monitoring Metrics explorer:

   Go to Metrics explorer

3. Navigate to Select a metric and select the metrics that you want to display. For example, select VM Instance > Instance > CPU Usage > Apply.

4. To view metrics for the workstations that you are interested in, filter the VM instance by workstation_cluster_id, workstation_location, workstation_id, and workstation_config_id.

For a full metrics list, see Metrics from Compute Engine.

For more about using Metrics explorer, see Create charts with Metrics Explorer.

Note: The monitoring agent monitors the VM—not the Docker containers hosted on the Container-Optimized OS VM. Customizing reported metrics for the built-in agent is not supported.

What's next

• Learn more about Cloud Monitoring metrics dashboards.
• Learn more about Container-Optimized OS Monitoring.