Unable to view memory usage in stackdriver Monitoring for windows

Question

Installed stackdriver Agents on a VM instances[windows machine], followed the below steps.

1. Open a terminal connection to your instance using RDP or a similar tool and login to Windows.
2. Open a PowerShell terminal, then run the following PowerShell commands. You don't need administrator privileges. cd $env:UserProfile; (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("https://repo.stackdriver.com/windows/StackdriverMonitoring-GCM-46.exe", ".\StackdriverMonitoring-GCM-46.exe").\StackdriverMonitoring-GCM-46.exe

I also restarted the stackdriver on windows machine manually.

The StackDriver Logging API and StackDriver Monitoring API are also enabled. I was not able to view the memory usage for a Windows machine in StackDriver monitoring.

I tried to open defender in Windows too. Nothing seems to work. As it is a high priority, looking for answers.

Answer 1

I followed this doc Installed agent, this filter works for me:

Open the console navigation menu (menu) and select Monitoring to open Stackdriver. Select Resource > Metrics Explorer on Stackdriver home page.

Setting Metric options as:

Resource type: GCE VM Instance Metric: Memory utilization

Filter: state = “used” and Instance_id = “Your_Instance_ID”

You may have to reinstall Stackdriver agent on your instance [2]