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Disk and partition 🔗

Note

If you’re using the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector and want to collect disk I/O metrics, use the native OTel component Host metrics receiver.

Configuration settings 🔗

If you’re still using this monitor with the Smart Agent (deprecated), these are the configuration options:

The following table shows the configuration options for this monitor:

Option

Definition

Default value

Disk

Include specific Disk(s)

“sda” “/^hd/”

IgnoreSelected

Ignore the designation of specific Disks

false

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics are available for this integration:

Notes 🔗

  • To learn more about the available in Observability Cloud see Metric types

  • In host-based subscription plans, default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See Metric categories for more information.

  • In MTS-based subscription plans, all metrics are custom.

  • To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics in Add additional metrics

Troubleshooting 🔗

If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.

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  • Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers .

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To learn about even more support options, see Splunk Customer Success .