Hi guys. Does anyone know how to exlude cached/buffered bytes from “memory utilization” monitoring stats? We do have a condition to warn us if the memory utilization is above 90% for 10 minutes, but we get this notification even if there is most of ram available. It looks like do-agent sums used ram and cached/buffered numbers and returns that sum as a “used ram”. Thanks
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Hello,
With the new monitoring agent, this should work as expected, as cached memory is available on demand it is not considered to be in use.
Here’s a step by step guide from the official documentation on how to upgrade your monitoring agent:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/monitoring/how-to/upgrade-legacy-agent/
Regards, Bobby
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