gce/WARN/2021_004

Serial logs don’t contain disk full messages

Product: Compute Engine
Rule class: WARN - Something that is possibly wrong

Description

The messages: “No space left on device” / “I/O error” / “No usable temporary directory found” in serial output usually indicate that the disk is full.

Remediation

Delete some files or increase the size of the disk.

You can use the following log query to find matching log lines:

resource.type="gce_instance"
log_id("serialconsole.googleapis.com/serial_port_1_output")
textPayload:(
  "No space left on device"
  OR
  "I/O error"
  OR
  "No usable temporary directory found"
  )

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