Question
Get Disk Space Usage using D.O API
- Posted on July 16, 2024
- DigitalOcean API and CLI (doctl)
Asked by David Beecher
Hello, I am building a page to display all our servers on a web page and I wanted to display some stats like disk space used or disk space left so our developers can see when we need to up them or when not to add a new website.
I cannot find anything the API to display the Disk space metrics other than the total amount… anyone point me In the right direction?
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Heya,
You can use the Droplet Metrics to extract that information from your Droplet. Fr that to happen, you’ll need to have the Metrics Agent installed. You can check that here:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/how-to/install-agent/
Also, the API you can use and I’ve used in the past is
Hey!
You could use the Droplet Metrics API to retrieve that information.
There are two endpoints that should work for your use-case:
Also, keep in mind that you need to have the DigitalOcean Metrics Agent installed on your Droplet in order to get some data back.
You can install the
do-agentas per the instructions here:- Bobby