Fetching Disk metadata

[abhi27]

I need to get metadata for VM and disk like Read/Write IOPS per instance. Can anyone suggests Which API should I use to retrieve the same? 

[lawrencenelson]

Hi @abhi27,

Welcome to the Google Cloud Community!

To get the metadata of an instance, you can use the Compute Engine API's instances.get() method [1]. This method returns information about the instance, including its metadata, metadata kind, and metadata fingerprint. For a complete list of output fields, please see the official documentation.

You can use the diskTypes() [2] and disks()[3] methods to view information about an instance's disk, including the provisioned IOPS and disk type. 

I hope this is helpful! Thank you.

Best,
Lawrence

[1]. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances/get
[2]. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/diskTypes
[3]. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/disks

[abhi27]

Hi @lawrencenelson , I want to fetch max iops and throughput of each kind of disk. Kindly suggest me solution for the same

[magesh-3k]

Hi @abhi27 , I'm also working on finding a way to collect the maximum IOPS and throughput for each disk. Have you discovered any way for this?