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How to create alerts for disk space for each drive, when the space is less than 1GB?

carlyleadmin
Contributor

Hi,

The answer to this is probably so easy that I can't see it, but I am collecting disk info from my servers and creating alert when space is less than 1gb. The problem is that I have multiple drives in servers and each has different size, here is my query: basically if the size is less than 1 GB in either c or d drive send me an alert.

index="pa"  host="NOC"  Name="C:" OR Name="D:" FreeSpace | eval FreeSpace_in_GB = round((FreeSpace/1024/1024/1024), 2)|eval Size_in_GB = round((Size/1024/1024/1024),2)|table host,Name,Size_in_GB,FreeSpace_in_GB| dedup Name|search FreeSpace_in_GB < 1

Now I need to set this to less than %20 for each disk so it is going to be less than 14 for D drive and less than 20 for D drive.
When I add this to my search I am only getting c drive. What am I missing here?

index="pa"  host="NOC"  Name="C:" OR Name="D:" FreeSpace | eval FreeSpace_in_GB = round((FreeSpace/1024/1024/1024), 2)|eval Size_in_GB = round((Size/1024/1024/1024),2)|table host,Name,Size_in_GB,FreeSpace_in_GB| dedup Name|search Name="C:" FreeSpace_in_GB < 56 OR Name="D:" FreeSpace_in_GB <70

I mean I can create 2 different alerts, one for c and one for d but I am sure I should be able to accomplish this with one query,right?

Thanks

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

You've your total size and FreeSpace available, so you can just compare the %difference in your where clause. This way you don't have to hard code any size thresholds.

index="pa"  host="NOC"  Name="C:" OR Name="D:" FreeSpace | eval FreeSpace_in_GB = round((FreeSpace/1024/1024/1024), 2)|eval Size_in_GB = round((Size/1024/1024/1024),2)|table host,Name,Size_in_GB,FreeSpace_in_GB | eval FreeSpacePercent=(FreeSpace_in_GB*100/Size_in_GB) | where FreeSpacePercent<20

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

You've your total size and FreeSpace available, so you can just compare the %difference in your where clause. This way you don't have to hard code any size thresholds.

index="pa"  host="NOC"  Name="C:" OR Name="D:" FreeSpace | eval FreeSpace_in_GB = round((FreeSpace/1024/1024/1024), 2)|eval Size_in_GB = round((Size/1024/1024/1024),2)|table host,Name,Size_in_GB,FreeSpace_in_GB | eval FreeSpacePercent=(FreeSpace_in_GB*100/Size_in_GB) | where FreeSpacePercent<20
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carlyleadmin
Contributor

Running your command i get "No results found"

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carlyleadmin
Contributor

just to make sure i changed it to <90 so i could get results

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Can you run it without where clause and see of all fields have values? May be post the output here.

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carlyleadmin
Contributor

i've changed the order in the query and now it seems to be working.i will test it thanks

FreeSpace | eval FreeSpace_in_GB = round((FreeSpace/1024/1024/1024), 2)|eval Size_in_GB = round((Size/1024/1024/1024),2)|eval freepercent = (FreeSpace_in_GB*100/Size_in_GB)|dedup Name|search freepercent < 94|table host,Name,Size_in_GB,FreeSpace_in_GB

i can also get results using where instead of search

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