Host metrics

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This is a reference list of the metrics used for hosts, with details of their availability on Windows, Linux, and AIX operating systems.

You can also check if the metrics are available in the Discovery monitoring mode. For more details, refer to Discovery mode.

CPU and Memory metrics

Metrics representing the usage of CPU and RAM.

CPU

Metric name

Metrics classic key

Metrics on Grail key

Windows

Linux

AIX

Discovery mode

Idle

builtin:host.cpu.idle

dt.host.cpu.idle

User

builtin:host.cpu.user

dt.host.cpu.user

IO wait

builtin:host.cpu.iowait

dt.host.cpu.iowait

Other

builtin:host.cpu.other

dt.host.cpu.other

Steal

builtin:host.cpu.steal

dt.host.cpu.steal

System

builtin:host.cpu.system

dt.host.cpu.system

System Load

builtin:host.cpu.load

dt.host.cpu.load

System load 5 minutes

builtin:host.cpu.load5m

dt.host.cpu.load5m

System load 15 minutes

builtin:host.cpu.load15m

dt.host.cpu.load15m

CPU Usage %

builtin:host.cpu.usage

dt.host.cpu.usage

Logical / Physical CPU cores

entc

builtin:host.cpu.entc

dt.host.cpu.entc

physc

builtin:host.cpu.physc

dt.host.cpu.physc

entConfigured

builtin:host.cpu.entConfig

dt.host.cpu.ent_config

AIX Kernel threads running

builtin:host.kernelThreads.running

dt.host.kernel_threads.running

AIX Kernel threads blocked

builtin:host.kernelThreads.blocked

dt.host.kernel_threads.blocked

AIX Kernel threads blocked I/O message wait

builtin:host.kernelThreads.ioMessageWait

dt.host.kernel_threads.io_message_wait

AIX Kernel threads blocked I/O event wait

builtin:host.kernelThreads.ioEventWait

dt.host.kernel_threads.io_event_wait

Memory

Metric name

Metrics classic key

Metrics on Grail key

Windows

Linux

AIX

Discovery mode

Total

builtin:host.mem.total

Unsupported

Used

builtin:host.mem.used

dt.host.memory.used

Available

builtin:host.mem.avail.bytes

dt.host.memory.avail.bytes

Memory available %

builtin:host.mem.avail.pct

dt.host.memory.avail.percent

Memory used %

builtin:host.mem.usage

dt.host.memory.usage

Kernel

builtin:host.mem.kernel

dt.host.memory.kernel

memoryReclaimable

builtin:host.mem.recl

dt.host.memory.recl

Page Faults

builtin:host.mem.avail.pfps

dt.host.memory.avail.pfps

Swap Used

builtin:host.mem.swap.used

dt.host.memory.swap.used

Swap Total

builtin:host.mem.swap.total

dt.host.memory.swap.total

Swap Available

builtin:host.mem.swap.avail

dt.host.memory.swap.avail

File descriptors/handles

Metric name

Metrics classic key

Metrics on Grail key

Windows

Linux

AIX

Discovery mode

File descriptors used

builtin:host.handles.fileDescriptorsUsed

dt.host.handles.file_descriptors_used

File descriptors max

builtin:host.handles.fileDescriptorsMax

dt.host.handles.file_descriptors_max

Disk metrics

Metrics representing the disk usage. Note that there's a separation between network and local drives on Linux.

Metric name

Metrics classic key

Metrics on Grail key

Windows

Linux

AIX

Discovery mode

Total¹

Disk used

builtin:host.disk.used

dt.host.disk.used

Disk used %

builtin:host.disk.usedPct

dt.host.disk.used.percent

Disk available¹

builtin:host.disk.avail

dt.host.disk.avail

Disk available %¹

builtin:host.disk.free

dt.host.disk.free

Read (Bytes/s)

builtin:host.disk.bytesRead

dt.host.disk.bytes_read

⁴

Write (Bytes/s)

builtin:host.disk.bytesWritten

dt.host.disk.bytes_written

⁴

Inodes total

builtin:host.disk.inodesTotal

dt.host.disk.inodes_total

⁵

Inodes available %

builtin:host.disk.inodesAvail

dt.host.disk.inodes_avail

⁵

Reads (IOPS)

builtin:host.disk.readOps

dt.host.disk.read_ops

⁶

Writes (IOPS)

builtin:host.disk.writeOps

dt.host.disk.write_ops

⁶

Disk read time

builtin:host.disk.readTime

dt.host.disk.read_time

⁷

Disk write time

builtin:host.disk.writeTime

dt.host.disk.write_time

⁷

Disk utilization time

builtin:host.disk.utilTime

dt.host.disk.util_time

⁸

Disk average queue length

builtin:host.disk.queueLength

dt.host.disk.queue_length

⁸

OneAgent version 1.313+ The disk available and disk total metrics are not sent when the total disk size exceeds 1024 petabytes (1024 PB).

Local only

Excluding GPFS

⁴

Since OneAgent 1.307

⁵

Excluding CIFS

⁶

GPFS only

⁷

Excluding CIFS/GPFS

⁸

Excluding NFS/CIFS/GPFS

Network metrics per network interface controller (NIC)

Metrics representing the usage of network interface controllers on the host. They're collected by OneAgent network module.

Metric name

Metrics classic key

Metrics on Grail key

Windows

Linux

AIX

Discovery mode

Bytes Received / s

builtin:host.net.nic.bytesRx

dt.host.net.nic.bytes_rx

Bytes Sent / s

builtin:host.net.nic.bytesTx

dt.host.net.nic.bytes_tx

Packets Received / s

builtin:host.net.nic.packets.rx

dt.host.net.nic.packets.rx

Packets Sent / s

builtin:host.net.nic.packets.tx

dt.host.net.nic.packets.tx

Dropped Packets Out / s

builtin:host.net.nic.packets.droppedTx

dt.host.net.nic.packets.dropped_tx

Dropped Packets In / s

builtin:host.net.nic.packets.droppedRx

dt.host.net.nic.packets.dropped_rx

Errors Out / s

builtin:host.net.nic.packets.errorsTx

dt.host.net.nic.packets.errors_tx

Errors In / s

builtin:host.net.nic.packets.errorsRx

dt.host.net.nic.packets.errors_rx

Send Utilization

builtin:host.net.nic.linkUtilTx

dt.host.net.nic.link_util_tx

Received Utilization

builtin:host.net.nic.linkUtilRx

dt.host.net.nic.link_util_rx

Availability

Metric name

Metrics classic key

Metrics on Grail key

Windows

Linux

AIX

Discovery mode

Host availability

builtin:host.availability.state

dt.host.availability

Host uptime

builtin:host.uptime

Other

Metric name

Metrics classic key

Metrics on Grail key

Host Time Offset

builtin:host.la.to

unsupported