semantic-conventions/docs/hardware/logical-disk.md

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Semantic conventions for logical disk metrics

Status: Development

Logical disk metrics hw.logical_disk.*

Storage extent presented as a physical disk by a disk controller to the operating system (e.g. a RAID 1 set made of 2 disks, and exposed as /dev/hdd0 by the controller).

hw.type MUST be set to "logical_disk".

All logical disk metrics may include the below attributes:

Attribute Type Description Examples Requirement Level Stability
hw.id string An identifier for the hardware component, unique within the monitored host win32battery_battery_testsysa33_1 Required Development
hw.logical_disk.raid_level string RAID Level of the logical disk RAID0+1; RAID5; RAID10 Recommended Development
hw.name string An easily-recognizable name for the hardware component eth0 Recommended Development
hw.parent string Unique identifier of the parent component (typically the hw.id attribute of the enclosure, or disk controller) dellStorage_perc_0 Recommended Development

Metric: hw.errors (Logical Disk)

This metric is recommended.

Number of errors encountered on this logical disk.

When using this metric, the following attributes MUST be set:

  • hw.type MUST be set to "logical_disk" to indicate that the errors are from a logical disk.
Name Instrument Type Unit (UCUM) Description Stability Entity Associations
hw.errors Counter {error} Number of errors encountered by the component. Development
Attribute Type Description Examples Requirement Level Stability
hw.id string An identifier for the hardware component, unique within the monitored host win32battery_battery_testsysa33_1 Required Development
hw.type string Type of the component [1] battery; cpu; disk_controller Required Development
error.type string The type of error encountered by the component. [2] uncorrected; zero_buffer_credit; crc; bad_sector Conditionally Required if and only if an error has occurred Stable
hw.name string An easily-recognizable name for the hardware component eth0 Recommended Development
hw.parent string Unique identifier of the parent component (typically the hw.id attribute of the enclosure, or disk controller) dellStorage_perc_0 Recommended Development
network.io.direction string Direction of network traffic for network errors. [3] receive; transmit Recommended Development

[1] hw.type: Describes the category of the hardware component for which hw.state is being reported. For example, hw.type=temperature along with hw.state=degraded would indicate that the temperature of the hardware component has been reported as degraded.

[2] error.type: The error.type SHOULD match the error code reported by the component, the canonical name of the error, or another low-cardinality error identifier. Instrumentations SHOULD document the list of errors they report.

[3] network.io.direction: This attribute SHOULD only be used when hw.type is set to "network" to indicate the direction of the error.


error.type has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value Description Stability
_OTHER A fallback error value to be used when the instrumentation doesn't define a custom value. Stable

hw.type has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value Description Stability
battery Battery Development
cpu CPU Development
disk_controller Disk controller Development
enclosure Enclosure Development
fan Fan Development
gpu GPU Development
logical_disk Logical disk Development
memory Memory Development
network Network Development
physical_disk Physical disk Development
power_supply Power supply Development
tape_drive Tape drive Development
temperature Temperature Development
voltage Voltage Development

network.io.direction has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value Description Stability
receive receive Development
transmit transmit Development

Metric: hw.logical_disk.limit

This metric is recommended.

Size of the logical disk.

Name Instrument Type Unit (UCUM) Description Stability Entity Associations
hw.logical_disk.limit UpDownCounter By Size of the logical disk. Development
Attribute Type Description Examples Requirement Level Stability
hw.id string An identifier for the hardware component, unique within the monitored host win32battery_battery_testsysa33_1 Required Development
hw.logical_disk.raid_level string RAID Level of the logical disk RAID0+1; RAID5; RAID10 Recommended Development
hw.name string An easily-recognizable name for the hardware component eth0 Recommended Development
hw.parent string Unique identifier of the parent component (typically the hw.id attribute of the enclosure, or disk controller) dellStorage_perc_0 Recommended Development

Metric: hw.logical_disk.usage

This metric is recommended.

Logical disk space usage.

When using this metric, the following attributes MUST be set:

  • hw.logical_disk.state MUST be set to one of the following values:
    • "used": The amount of disk space that is in use.
    • "free": The amount of disk space that is free.
Name Instrument Type Unit (UCUM) Description Stability Entity Associations
hw.logical_disk.usage UpDownCounter By Logical disk space usage. Development
Attribute Type Description Examples Requirement Level Stability
hw.id string An identifier for the hardware component, unique within the monitored host win32battery_battery_testsysa33_1 Required Development
hw.logical_disk.state string State of the logical disk space usage used; free Required Development
hw.logical_disk.raid_level string RAID Level of the logical disk RAID0+1; RAID5; RAID10 Recommended Development
hw.name string An easily-recognizable name for the hardware component eth0 Recommended Development
hw.parent string Unique identifier of the parent component (typically the hw.id attribute of the enclosure, or disk controller) dellStorage_perc_0 Recommended Development

hw.logical_disk.state has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value Description Stability
free Free Development
used Used Development

Metric: hw.logical_disk.utilization

This metric is recommended.

Logical disk space utilization as a fraction.

When using this metric, the following attributes MUST be set:

  • hw.logical_disk.state MUST be set to one of the following values:
    • "used": The fraction of disk space that is in use.
    • "free": The fraction of disk space that is free.
Name Instrument Type Unit (UCUM) Description Stability Entity Associations
hw.logical_disk.utilization Gauge 1 Logical disk space utilization as a fraction. Development
Attribute Type Description Examples Requirement Level Stability
hw.id string An identifier for the hardware component, unique within the monitored host win32battery_battery_testsysa33_1 Required Development
hw.logical_disk.state string State of the logical disk space usage used; free Required Development
hw.logical_disk.raid_level string RAID Level of the logical disk RAID0+1; RAID5; RAID10 Recommended Development
hw.name string An easily-recognizable name for the hardware component eth0 Recommended Development
hw.parent string Unique identifier of the parent component (typically the hw.id attribute of the enclosure, or disk controller) dellStorage_perc_0 Recommended Development

hw.logical_disk.state has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value Description Stability
free Free Development
used Used Development

Metric: hw.status (Logical Disk)

This metric is recommended.

Operational status: 1 (true) or 0 (false) for each of the possible states.

When using this metric for logical disk status, the following attributes MUST be set:

  • hw.type MUST be set to "logical_disk" to indicate that the status is for a logical disk.
  • hw.state MUST be set to one of the following values to indicate the logical disk state:
    • "ok": The logical disk is operating normally.
    • "degraded": The logical disk is operating with reduced functionality or performance.
    • "failed": The logical disk has failed and is not operational.
Name Instrument Type Unit (UCUM) Description Stability Entity Associations
hw.status UpDownCounter 1 Operational status: 1 (true) or 0 (false) for each of the possible states. [1] Development

[1]: hw.status is currently specified as an UpDownCounter but would ideally be represented using a StateSet as defined in OpenMetrics. This semantic convention will be updated once StateSet is specified in OpenTelemetry. This planned change is not expected to have any consequence on the way users query their timeseries backend to retrieve the values of hw.status over time.

Attribute Type Description Examples Requirement Level Stability
hw.id string An identifier for the hardware component, unique within the monitored host win32battery_battery_testsysa33_1 Required Development
hw.state string The current state of the component degraded; failed; needs_cleaning Required Development
hw.type string Type of the component [1] battery; cpu; disk_controller Required Development
hw.name string An easily-recognizable name for the hardware component eth0 Recommended Development
hw.parent string Unique identifier of the parent component (typically the hw.id attribute of the enclosure, or disk controller) dellStorage_perc_0 Recommended Development

[1] hw.type: Describes the category of the hardware component for which hw.state is being reported. For example, hw.type=temperature along with hw.state=degraded would indicate that the temperature of the hardware component has been reported as degraded.


hw.state has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value Description Stability
degraded Degraded Development
failed Failed Development
needs_cleaning Needs Cleaning Development
ok OK Development
predicted_failure Predicted Failure Development

hw.type has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value Description Stability
battery Battery Development
cpu CPU Development
disk_controller Disk controller Development
enclosure Enclosure Development
fan Fan Development
gpu GPU Development
logical_disk Logical disk Development
memory Memory Development
network Network Development
physical_disk Physical disk Development
power_supply Power supply Development
tape_drive Tape drive Development
temperature Temperature Development
voltage Voltage Development