gce/Preemptible Instance

Investigate the cause of a preemptible VM termination

Product: Compute Engine
Step Type: AUTOMATED STEP

Description

Preemptible VMs are short-lived instances. This step investigates normal or abnormal circumstances leading to termination.

Failure Reason

{status_message}

Failure Remediation

Instance {full_resource_path} were preempted as part of a spot VM normal process.

Spot VMs have significant discounts, but Compute Engine might preemptively stop or delete (preempt) Spot VMs to reclaim capacity at any time.

Read more on here the preemption process occurs here [1][2]

This is a normal process and no action is required.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#preemption [2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot