How to get notified of low hard disk space on windows 2012 r2

Question

Hi all, Good day! I need help on how to set up alerts to notify me if disk space C:\ running low on Win2012R2, which is a Hyper-V VM running on-premises.

so far I searched n found only info for Windows 2003.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/324796/how-to-configure-a-low-disk-space-alert-by-using-the-performance-logs?wa=wsignin1.0%3Fwa%3Dwsignin1.0

Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

Hi,

Easiest to achieve this is to create a PowerShell script that checks the disk space of your disks, then schedule the PowerShell script with the Task Scheduler to automatically run the script and notify whoever you want about low disk space.

There are many guides out there that provide solutions for this, here's a few examples:
PowerShell: Alert me when Disk Space is running low on my Windows Servers (E-Mail Notification)

PowerShell : Monitoring and Notification - Disk Space Alerts

Automated Disk Space Alerts For Windows Server

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Best regards,
Leon

Answer 2

Hi,
The link you found almost works on Windows Server 2012R2. You could open Performance Monitor and create a new user defined data collector set using the counter LogicalDisk - % Free Space or Free Megabytes

Here's a similar issue. Hope this helps
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/a0212ad9-3799-4860-8461-bbe2bd07097e/low-disk-space-email-alerts-via-performance-monitor-server-20122016?forum=winserver8setup

Best Regards.
Ian

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