gce/Disk Avg Io Latency Check

Check Disk Avg IO Latency

Product: Compute Engine
Step Type: AUTOMATED STEP

Description

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Failure Reason

The performance of the disk ‘{disk_name}’ is currently degraded due to high IO latency exceeding optimal thresholds. This may result in slower read/write speeds and overall reduced performance.

Failure Remediation

Disk I/O latency is the time it takes for a read or write operation to complete on a disk. High disk I/O latency can significantly impact the performance of your applications and workloads running on the instance, leading to slow response times, increased processing time, and overall sluggishness.

Potential Bottlenecks -

  • Disk Type: To optimize disk performance, ensure your disk type is appropriate for your workload and provides acceptable latency for your system architecture. Choosing the right disk type can significantly impact performance. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks

  • Workload: The nature of your workload also influences latency. Workloads with many small, random I/O operations will generally have higher latency than those with sequential I/O

Optimize Disk Usage:

  • Reduce I/O Operations: Optimize your applications and database queries to minimize the number of disk I/O operations.
  • Increase I/O Request Size: Larger I/O requests can be more efficient than many small ones. Consider adjusting your application or database settings to increase the I/O request size.
  • Caching: Implement caching mechanisms to reduce the need to access the disk for frequently used data.

Choose the Right Disk Type with lesser IO Latency - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks

You may also look into Optimizing persistent disk performance. - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/optimizing-pd-performance

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to Google Cloud Support if issue is not resolved.

Success Reason

Instance disk “{disk_name}"’s IO latency is within the optimal limtis.