Missing memory and GPU metrics on the Cockpit dashboard

Reviewed on November 13, 2025

Problem

The memory pane in the Instance Overview dashboard or the Instance GPUs dashboard do not display any metrics.

Symptoms

• No metrics are displayed in the Instance Overview Cockpit dashboard.
• No GPU metrics appear in the Instances GPUs Cockpit dashboard (for offers with GPUs only)

Cause

The scaleway-vmagent service is either:

• Not installed on the instance, or
• Not running properly.

Solution

• Verify that the scaleway-vmagent service is running and enabled:

  systemctl status scaleway-vmagent

• If missing, install the scaleway-vmagent package:

  For Ubuntu: Check that the Scaleway PPA is added before installing:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scaleway/stable
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install scaleway-vmagent

  For RHEL-based distributions: check that the Scaleway COPR repository is enabled before installing:

  dnf copr enable @scaleway/instance
  dnf install scaleway-vmagent

Once the service is running, metrics should begin appearing in the Cockpit dashboards within a few minutes.