Use Prometheus alerts to monitor Spanner Omni

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This document describes the Prometheus alerts available for Spanner Omni. Use these alerts to monitor the status and performance of your Spanner Omni deployment.

TrueTime alerts

Use the following alerts to monitor the status of TrueTime in your deployment:

Alert	Severity	Duration	Description
TrueTimeUnavailable	critical	1 minute	TrueTime is unavailable for more than 1 minute.
ClockSlaViolation	critical	1 minute	A server has violated the clock service level agreement (SLA).

CPU alerts

Use the following alerts to monitor the CPU utilization of your deployment:

Alert	Severity	Duration	Description
SpannerHighCPUUtilization	warning	5 minutes	Overall CPU utilization has been higher than 65% for more than 5 minutes.

Storage alerts

Use the following alerts to monitor the storage utilization of your deployment:

Alert	Severity	Duration	Description
SpannerStorageUtilizationWarning	warning	5 minutes	Spanner Omni storage on a server is high (80%).
SpannerStorageUtilizationCritical	critical	5 minutes	Spanner Omni storage on a server is high (90%).
SpannerStoragePerVCPUTooHigh	warning	5 minutes	The storage per vCPU is exceeding 500 GB.

What's next

• Use Grafana dashboards to monitor Spanner Omni.

• Add encryption to a Spanner Omni Kubernetes deployment.

• Add encryption to a Spanner Omni VM deployment.