need understanding on guest-metrics in google cloud

Question

I am collecting metrics from Monitoring in google cloud through rest-api. In the api documentation from https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp I am seeing lot of metrics beginning with guest like

guest/cpu/usage_time 
guest/disk/bytes_used 
guest/disk/io_time

I am seeing the same kind of metrics beginnging with instance like

instance/cpu/usage_time
instance/disk/max_read_bytes_count

I have searched the documentation, but I am not getting clear idea of what is the difference between guest and instance metrics. Which metrics is preferred? Can anyone give suggestion? Thanks

On which metrics do you need clarification? What do you want to observe? According with your use case, the metrics to use will be different! — guillaume blaquiere, Jul 29 '20 at 13:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 29 '20 at 13:41

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The guest/... is used to monitor the system health of COS instances.

While for the instance/... it is targeted at regular GCE VM instances metrics not COS instance type.

answered Jul 29 '20 at 13:41

Adebisi

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thanks this information is very useful to me does it mean that all api calls starting with guest are all related to COS (container optimized instances like kubernetes and not normally created instances – user1403505 Aug 04 '20 at 08:38

need understanding on guest-metrics in google cloud

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