title: Google Compute Engine VM constantly crashes
body: <p>On the Compute Engine VM in us-west-1b, I run 16 vCPUs near 99% usage. After a few hours, the VM automatically crashes. This is not a one-time incident, and I have to manually restart the VM.</p>
  
  <p>There are a few instances of CPU usage suddenly dropping to around 30%, then bouncing back to 99%.</p>
  
  <p>There are no logs for the VM at the time of the crash. Is there any other way to get the error logs?</p>
  
  <p>How do I prevent VMs from crashing?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZBHby.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CPU usage graph</a></p>