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Disk Usage Monitor

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Einführung

Alert when free disk space drops below a threshold. The Disk Usage monitor lets you target any drive or the system drive specifically, and measure either by percentage or absolute gigabytes — so you can set thresholds that actually make sense for the drive size.


Speichernutzungs-Monitor

Level checks available disk space on covered devices. When free space falls below your threshold, Level creates an alert.

Unlike the CPU and Speicher-Monitore, Disk Usage doesn't have a breach duration — the alert fires as soon as the condition is detected. Disk space doesn't spike and recover the way CPU or RAM does, so there's no need to wait out a sustained period.


Configuring Speichernutzungs-Monitor

Open the target monitor policy, then add or edit a Disk Usage monitor. The Bearbeiten monitor panel opens on the right.

Name and Geben Sie

  1. Geben Sie ein a name in the Name field. "Servers - Low Disk (System)" or "Workstations - Low Disk (20%)" gives you instant context in an alert list.

  2. Set Geben Sie to Disk usage.

Schweregrad

Set Schweregrad to match how urgent low disk space is in this context:

  • Information

  • Warning

  • Critical

  • Emergency

💡 TIPP: Two-tier disk monitoring works well: a Warning at 20% free to give you time to act, and a Critical at 10% for when it's genuinely urgent. Erstellen two separate monitors in the same policy to cover both.

Disk Drive

Disk drive controls which drives the monitor evaluates:

  • Any drive — alert if any drive on the device falls below the threshold

  • System drive only — monitor only the drive where the OS is installed

Disk Wählen Sieion

💡 TIPP: System drive only is useful for preventing false positives from secondary data drives that are expected to fill up — backup volumes, archive drives, or secondary partitions.

Measurement

Measurement controls how the threshold is expressed:

  • Percent free — alert when free space drops below X% of total capacity

  • GB free — alert when free space drops below X GB

Measurement

💡 TIPP: Percent free scales with drive size and works well across mixed environments. GB free is more precise when you need a hard floor — for example, ensuring a log volume never drops below 5 GB regardless of its total size.

Threshold

Threshold sets the free space value below which the alert fires. The unit displayed (% or GB) matches your Measurement selection. Adjust using the slider or up/down arrows.

Threshold

Auto-Beheben

Automatische Behebung alert if it is no longer applicable (enabled by default) closes the alert when free space rises back above the threshold — for example, after files are deleted or the drive is expanded.

Auto Beheben

Remediation

Attach one or more automations to run when this monitor fires — run a disk cleanup script, archive old logs, or notify your team.

  1. Klicken Sie auf in the Remediation field and select an automation.

  2. To add more, click + Hinzufügen another remediation.

  3. To remove one, click the × next to it.

Once attached, open the automation from the link icon to assign the monitor's payload to an automation variable.

ℹ️ HINWEIS: Remediations run when the alert is created, not when it resolves.


Neintifications

  • Send notifications on alert creation — policy recipients get an email when the alert fires

  • Send notifications on alert resolution — policy recipients get an email when the alert resolves

Recipients are managed at the monitor policy level, in the Recipients section.

Neintifications

ℹ️ HINWEIS: If no recipients are added to the policy, notification emails won't send regardless of these toggle states.


Saving the Monitor

Klicken Sie auf Update monitor to save changes, or Hinzufügen monitor if adding a new one.


Häufig gestellte Fragen

  • Who can create and edit monitors? Technicians with access to the relevant monitor policy. Berechtigung settings are managed in Workspace → Berechtigungs.

  • Should I use "Percent free" or "GB free"? Percent free works well for most environments since it scales with drive size. GB free is useful when you need a hard minimum — for example, ensuring a SQL server always has at least 10 GB available regardless of total disk capacity.

  • Why is my disk alert not firing even though I know a drive is nearly full? Confirm the device is covered by the policy's target tags, and check whether Disk drive is set to System drive only — a nearly full secondary drive won't trigger that configuration.

  • Can I monitor specific drive letters? The built-in Disk Usage monitor supports Any drive or System drive only. To monitor a specific drive letter or path, use a Skript Monitor with a custom script.

  • What happens to open disk alerts if I delete the monitor? Existing alerts remain in place. Deleting a monitor doesn't close alerts it already created — resolve those manually.

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