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hostmetricsreceiver/memory

Parent Component: hostmetrics

Default Metrics

The following metrics are emitted by default. Each of them can be disabled by applying the following configuration:

metrics:
  <metric_name>:
    enabled: false

system.memory.usage

Bytes of memory in use.

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Aggregation Temporality	Monotonic
By	Sum	Int	Cumulative	false

Attributes

Name	Description	Values
state	Breakdown of memory usage by type.	Str: buffered, cached, inactive, free, slab_reclaimable, slab_unreclaimable, used

Optional Metrics

The following metrics are not emitted by default. Each of them can be enabled by applying the following configuration:

metrics:
  <metric_name>:
    enabled: true

system.linux.memory.available

An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new applications, without swapping. This is a more accurate alternative than system.memory.usage with state=free. (Linux only)

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Aggregation Temporality	Monotonic
By	Sum	Int	Cumulative	false

system.memory.limit

Total bytes of memory available.

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Aggregation Temporality	Monotonic
By	Sum	Int	Cumulative	false

system.memory.utilization

Percentage of memory bytes in use.

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type
1	Gauge	Double

Attributes

Name	Description	Values
state	Breakdown of memory usage by type.	Str: buffered, cached, inactive, free, slab_reclaimable, slab_unreclaimable, used