How to install Stackdriver monitoring agent in Google Container VM images?

Question

I followed this instruction https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/install-agent#linux-install

$ curl -O "https://repo.stackdriver.com/stack-install.sh"
$ sudo bash stack-install.sh --write-gcm
Unidentifiable or unsupported platform.

The content of /etc/os-release.

$ cat /etc/os-release
BUILD_ID=8820.0.0
NAME="Container-VM Image"
GOOGLE_CRASH_ID=Lakitu
VERSION_ID=55
BUG_REPORT_URL=https://crbug.com/new
PRETTY_NAME="Google Container-VM Image"
VERSION=55
GOOGLE_METRICS_PRODUCT_ID=26
HOME_URL="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/"
ID=gci

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/faq#what_is_the_software_package_manager_for_container-vm_image

In order to update a particular package, the entire OS image needs to be updated

So, it seems that we must wait till update for a stackdriver agent installed version of image or give it up.

Also this vm image is not my choice. Newly created GKE nodes use Container-VM images by default. So for now I'll try to create nodes via gcloud container node-pools create --image-type

Answer 1

You can enable Stackdriver Monitoring Agent on Container OS VM Instances, just run this command (and restart it) in order to enable the monitoring agent:

gcloud compute instances add-metadata instance-name --metadata=google-monitoring-enabled=true