Creating a Disk Usage Alert in ControlUp using Internal Indices

A user asked for assistance in creating an alert based on disk usage, referencing specific variables found in the data index "_devices". Another user provided guidance on how to access the necessary information through this hidden index and offered the column "osdisk_configuration_freespace_all" as a potential indicator.

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Hello, I am wanting to create an alert based on disk usage, particularly if a user’s C: drive falls below X GB available. I know this data exists because I see it in the Operating System box details on the performance tab of a Windows devices (Drives & Volumes; Free, Capacity, Encrypt). There is also the report "Top Devices by Disk usage" that has this info. I can’t find where this info is in the data indexes. I figured "disk_Info", but when I browse that only one random device’s info comes up no matter what date range I select. Even then I didn’t see a field that corresponded to available disk space. Any help is appreciated.

Hey Alex. If you enable show internal indices, you’ll see a few hidden indexes. the one you are looking for is "_devices". I see a column that is what you are porpbably looking for "osdisk_configuration_freespace_all". Create an alert using this data index and let us know the results.